Ruthless Rhymes for Stupid Students, IV

[extemporanea]

The tut room's video up and dies!
Ignoring plaintive student cries,
with hammer, club and guillotine
I pulverise the damned machine,
ensuring hatred, fear and dread
by making them read books instead.

Teaching was a far, far simpler thing in the days when we didn't have to teach film. That's all I have to say.

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Lites Camra Akshun

[pinkthulhu]

Along with Gallipoli, the Mel Gibson film, we did The Simpsons for Film Studies in Standard 8. We studied the episode where Bart goes to France as an exchange student, and the Simpsons get a spy staying with them. Bart is forced into some kind of child labour, and accidentally learns French. Sometimes some of the scenes of his escape from France are very familiar. God, just realised that was back in 1992!

Re: Lites Camra Akshun

[extemporanea]

You don't want to know how far back schooldays would be for me, bowed as I am with grey hairs... Simpsons would be fun to study, actually, they're very knowing and layered in their references. In fact, one of my contemporaries in Masters did a thesis on Simpsons and, if I recollect correctly, Twin Peaks, under the broad umbrella of "postmodern television." I am not alone in the academic lunatic fringe...