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Though I’ve barely dipped my toe in the vast ocean of VES, I’m already finding a strong current of sub-art-house snobbery targeted towards anything with even the faintest odor of mainstream allure. One of the easier marks is the film critics of the four stars variety. I was recently involved in a discussion in a VES class when the name of Roger Ebert was dropped. Like a slab of chum in a pool of makos, the country’s leading film reviewer was quickly disparaged and disposed of. Though I can?...
...what’s your take on VES elitism, Ebert and the power of film criticism? Should intellectual types join in the fray to back up their less erudite peers? Or should they remain in their bubble, distanced from any potential mainstream impact...
...what of those VESers? I don’t have much quarrel with them; one of the best courses I’ve taken at Harvard was Bruce Jenkins’ American independent film survey. The philosophies and personal viewpoints that I took from that course and from other VES offerings were varied and useful; even when I disagreed with them, my disagreements helped me to refine my own perspective as an audience member and as a critic. And during my limited time among VES students, I never really perceived a catastrophic strain of elitism in them. But if they?...
...Center has certainly never claimed to be an art school that teaches technique to the bohemian artist. For Carpenter Center, as the exhibition makes so very clear, has succeeded in making art academic for the academic Harvard student. As an Economics professor might assign a paper topic, so the VES professor will give his students a particular, theoretical problem of design and ask them to solve it using very simple visual techniques. And as the courses are repeated year after year, the problems themselves become perennial...
...They’re also trained in things like handling a student who comes in here interested in astronomy, physics and math, but who has a secondary interest in VES. That freshman adviser should be trained enough to say, ‘Let’s construct a program so that you can explore some of the science but still have that VES,’” says Tucci, who has served as a first-year adviser...