Word: rousseau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken in tow by Dr. Itard (played by Truffaut himself). The primitive behaviorist names his charge Victor and slowly teaches him the habits and manners of civilization. But there is a ceiling of comprehension above Victor's head. Once he bumps it, all is lost. The embodiment of Rousseau's noble savage cannot progress to "normality"; yet he has lost the ability to survive in the wilderness. Victor is vanquished, condemned by science to be chained in perpetual twilight...
...Savoir, the Dziga Vertov group show that, in both content and form, they have become the revolution: they draw from Wittgenstein, the Whorfian hypothesis, and Rousseau to begin unlearning the current culture at its roots. The collective attempt to show you the way both the language of words and the language of cinema have shaped us and what must be cha(lle)nged. The authority of See You at Mao stems from an accurate application of Marxian rhetoric to contemporary image, from an unpretentious sound-image montage, and from the use of the camera as Vertov's "Kine-Eye" which...
...C.H.S. is a work-study program that heightens the students' "need to learn." Taught by 14 former college teachers and social-service experts, they devote two days a week to classes combining psychology, sociology, economics and literature. The freshman curriculum includes remedial reading and math along with Rousseau's The Social Contract and Orwell's Animal Farm. Sophomores study theories of teaching, ghetto psychology, urban economics and black literature. Three days a week, accompanied by their teachers, the students take their theory back to the neighborhoods by working as teacher assistants, community liaison trainees and the like...