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On his priorities for teaching film:
A film is never just a film. It’s never just entertainment. . In my film and cultural politics course, I’m taking films and connecting them to cultural moments saying, ‘This film happened at this time and here is how the conversation around the film was relevant to the cultural conversations at that time.’ I always tell students to ask themselves, ‘Why this film, now?’ or ‘How have we changed in how we think about films?’
I was having a conversation with a student about whether a studio could make ‘Blazing Saddles’ today, whether that film could get made in our cultural climate. If the answer is, ‘I don’t think so,’ then the question is ‘What is it that was happening when the film was made that made this OK?’ And not to, you know, pass judgment on the moment and say we weren’t as sophisticated about these issues at that time, but I think that you can tell a lot about a culture by the way they entertain themselves