![]() He’s been a direct advocate for my work on television genre and narrative, and even though he’s got a reputation for being polemical, he’s always encouraged many of his students doing work on other media, including television, video games, and comics. Besides being a brilliant scholar and one of the best teachers I’ve ever seen, he’s a tremendously nice guy and very supportive of his students. So here are some meandering thoughts in reply.įirst let me contextualize something: David was one of my professors in graduate school, and I consider him a friend. Soon, my Twitter feed was all atwitter with anxiety about how Bordwell (one of the major figures in film studies, if you don’t know) was bashing television, and a couple of people directly asked me if I would respond. ![]() Yesterday, David Bordwell blogged about television watching, and the reasons why he generally doesn’t do it (at least made-for-television fiction – he obviously watches many films on his television screen). ![]()
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