| Chapter 1: | Introduction |
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I have found film study an excellent opportunity to connect numerous academic disciplines. I establish my own concerns as “social science” concerns, borrow from such fields as economics, political science, psychology, sociology, history, and set them in the context of their relationship to artistic concerns. My concern for both “truth” and “meaning” has the potential to help the reader (and student) integrate perspectives across academia. While I am not disavowing the creativity of my approach (suggested above), I am equally committed to this effort of integrating knowledge in a way that reaches out to literally any reader.
Further, I am also highly influenced by my own mentors in scholarship, Elliot Eisner and Elizabeth Cohen. While Elliot is thought of as an artist, and Elizabeth as a social scientist, both argue against the pretense of objectivity and for making one’s own biases and assumptions as clearly revealed as possible, that such an effort would make it easier for the reader to adjudge the truth of the matter. The personalized quality of my writing is meant to emphasize the seriousness of my academic intent.
