Wim Wenders's road movie philosophy [electronic book] : education without learning / René V. Arcilla.

By: Arcilla, René Vincente, 1956- [author].

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BookSeries: Philosophies of education in art, cinema, and literature: Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: online resource (viii, 158 pages) : illustrations (some color).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 1350110426 (hardback); 9781350110427 (hardback); 9781350110458 (e-book).Subject(s): Wenders, Wim. -- Criticism and interpretation

| Motion pictures in education

DDC classification: 791.430233092 Online resources: e-Book

Contents:

Alice in the Cities -- Related Road Movies -- Genre Contrasts -- Education Movies -- Learning without Education -- Coda.

Summary: "What is education? Most of the time, we have little patience for this question because we take the answer to be obvious: we identify education with school learning. This book focuses on education outside of the school context as a basis for criticizing and improving school learning. Following the examples of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Dewey, Arcilla seeks to harmonize schooling with a more pervasive education we are all naturally undergoing. He develops a philosophical theory of education that stresses the experience of being led out-a theory latent in the Latin term, zeducerey-by examining the road movies of Wim Wenders. This book contributes both to our understanding of another crucial kind of education our schooling could better serve, and to our appreciation of what unifies and distinguishes Wenders's achievements in cinema."-- Provided by publisher.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What is education? Most of the time, we have little patience for this question because we take the answer to be obvious: we identify education with school learning. This book focuses on education outside of the school context as a basis for criticizing and improving school learning. Following the examples of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Dewey, Arcilla seeks to harmonize schooling with a more pervasive education we are all naturally undergoing. He develops a philosophical theory of education that stresses the experience of being led out--a theory latent in the Latin term, " educere "--by examining the road movies of Wim Wenders. This book contributes both to our understanding of another crucial kind of education our schooling could better serve, and to our appreciation of what unifies and distinguishes Wenders's achievements in cinema.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alice in the Cities -- Related Road Movies -- Genre Contrasts -- Education Movies -- Learning without Education -- Coda.

"What is education? Most of the time, we have little patience for this question because we take the answer to be obvious: we identify education with school learning. This book focuses on education outside of the school context as a basis for criticizing and improving school learning. Following the examples of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Dewey, Arcilla seeks to harmonize schooling with a more pervasive education we are all naturally undergoing. He develops a philosophical theory of education that stresses the experience of being led out-a theory latent in the Latin term, zeducerey-by examining the road movies of Wim Wenders. This book contributes both to our understanding of another crucial kind of education our schooling could better serve, and to our appreciation of what unifies and distinguishes Wenders's achievements in cinema."-- Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction.:

Bloomsbury Collections. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Arcilla's idiosyncratic book reads Wim Wenders's road movies as a collective statement on education and learning over time. Celebrated road films (Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road) are read alongside thematically related works (The American Friend, Salt of the Earth) as developing a pattern whereby the protagonists are "led out" of initial life circumstances to a set of experiences indicative of self-knowledge and toward a sense of "destiny." Arcilla (New York Univ.) mainly analyzes the films in terms of their narratives and characters, which leaves something to be desired in terms of highlighting how Wenders's stylistic choices accentuate the themes under consideration. Further, issues such as reception and production history are mostly absent, so discussion is a bit more decontextualized than one expects. There are some odd inconsistencies in approach, even when films are clustered together (for instance, Wrong Move is analyzed as an adaptation whereas The American Friend is not). Despite these issues, the book makes a good, sometimes compelling, case for Wenders's philosophical coherence and demonstrates the director's importance outside film studies and cinephile circles. Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. --Kevin M. Flanagan, George Mason University

Author notes provided by Syndetics

René V. Arcilla is Professor of Philosophy of Education at New York University's Steinhardt School, USA. He is past-president of the Philosophy of Education Society and the author of For the Love of Perfection: Richard Rorty and Liberal Education (1995) and Mediumism: A Philosophical Reconstruction of Modernism for Existential Learning , (2010) and co-editor of A Life in Classrooms: Philip W. Jackson and the Practice of Teaching (2007).