The Five Uncomfortable Truths of Undergraduate Film Studies

  1. Filmmakers of your generation did not invent sex, ambiguity or narrative complexity. Neither did those of your instructor's generation.

  2. If increasing your knowledge about filmmaking techniques, film criticism and film history decreases your enjoyment of watching movies, then you're watching the wrong movies.

  3. Many of the greatest movies ever made came out before you were born.

  4. If you hold a movie in contempt because it is silent, or in black and white, or both, you are a fool.

  5. If you hold a movie in contempt because it is a foreign film, you are a nationalistic fool.