영화교육에서 ‘상징적 창조성’의 계발을 위한 문화연구의 개입

The Mediation of Cultural Studies for the Cultivation of 'Symbolic Creativity' in the Pedagogy of Film

This article situates the pedagogy of film in the context of the ongoing debate about the teaching of film production and cinema studies. I ask what the role of critical studies classes should be in this new environment of the market based reform of universities where classes have given way to consumerism. I then attempt, with much emphasis on 'symbolic creativity', to define what quality undergraduate film education should be. My interest in symbolic creativity derives from a sense that it can produce critical intellectuals who will be suspicious of traditional humanism that values practices and work placements above thought and cultural politics. In the process, I propose bridging the gap between cinema studies and film production. This, I suggest, can be done through the synthesis of Cultural Studies and Film Studies/Production. I argue that integrating critical theory and practice is the best way to provide critical perspectives to film students. This essay concludes that the synthesis should aim at higher education that produces intellectuals in the Gramscian sense; individuals whose primary role is one of challenging various specific ideologies within the field of aesthetics and raising more general ideological problems in the real world.