GOALS

 

The Acidemic goal is to bridge the gap between high and low film, to make theory accessible to the non-masters student, to reveal art where the average man finds trash and vice versa. In order to make this palatable, a deadpan satirical approach is encouraged.

 

Approaching academic methods of discourse in a non-academic manner is a good way to attract an audience that may be otherwise suspicious. For the French and the British, the sphere of the intellectual extends to the “common man” far more than in the states. At Acidemic we want to change that, and the way to get a Yankee interested is by de-mystifying and deflating the pretentiousness American intellectuals often sheathe this stuff in, as Ben Franklin and Mark Twain well knew.

 

There are a lot of scholars and professors who are very defensive about film studies and thus write and lecture in as abstract, pretentious and joyless a way as possible, as if to increase the distance we at acidemic hope to lessen. Our goal is to stir and educate readers not just to see the movies we talk about, but to see them in new ways. 

 

 

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