大学教養教育における映画教育の意義

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The knowledge of cinema, domestic or foreign, possessed by Japanese universitystudents is hopelessly limited compared with other categories of art like literature,painting and music in spite of the fact that they often claim that they are fond ofHollywood action cinema. I argue that this can be attributed to several factors.1 ) In Japan, there are very few subjects in general education at a university levelwhere students can acquire the basics of cinema which a sophisticated citizen issupposed to have.2 ) Less emphasis has been placed on general education since Japanese nationaluniversities abolished their departments of liberal arts several years ago.3 ) Elementary and junior high schools have no subjects related to film because theSchool Education Act does not establish cinema as a subject unlike paintingsand music.4 ) Movies were capitalized on during World War I1 by the Japanese militaryauthorities as an effective means of propaganda. GHQ (General Headquarters(which occupied and governed Japan for 7 years after the war)) prohibitedthese films and such movies that show one's loyalty to one's bosses or theauthorities. Under its government, the introduction of cinema into the schoolcurriculum would have sounded quite political.5 ) The Japanese government did not provide a department of cinema in Japaneseuniversities.6 ) We have only one national institution of cinema while there are many publicinstitutions (museums and research institutes) developed to painting, literatureand music.7 ) Cinema enjoys extremely poor financial support from the Japanese government.The national budgets for cinema in European countries are 3-10 times as muchas that in Japan.8 ) Various reasons have made Japanese people feel reluctant to go to the movies.European people use a movie theater 2-4 times more often than Japanese people.9 ) Teachers in Japanese universities are so busy that it is unlikely that researchersin cinema needing plenty of time to cover current films will find a position inuniversities attractive.
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大学教養教育における映画教育の意義

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