So we are trying to implement a dynamic modernization of French universities, while we are about to reward during the ceremony of Caesar's finest in French cinema, it is clear that the film is the Campus Gender has always been missing from our movies. is not here to lament or tomorrow artificially create a category dedicated to this style which is full of American cinema, but rather to highlight here that the imagination of our country - s it exists - has no social representation of the university in France on which to build.
In other words, we can state that our directors and our writers - except very recently Emmanuel Bourdieu's Poison Friends and Pudding or Cedric Klapisch - can not think of the university as a source of inspiration enough to produce compelling - as is the case every year across the Atlantic - abundant quantity of works ranging from the teen movie schoolboy at the most masterful masterpiece.
If we consider, as sociologists generally do, that the subjects which are built on fiction film and television in a given society say many of the dominant concerns of said company, then we can start thinking, hollow, considering that any country has symbolically for his higher education, its academics, its students, campus and moments of life that are attached to this crucial period for the training of individuals in the country by watching audiovisual works produced there.
winner to Mona Lisa Smile, Indiana Jones with the Laws of Attraction, to Meet Forrester Benjamin Gates, Dr. Jerry and Mister Love Will Hunting, enhancement of the university is omnipresent in American fiction as a setting and plot and recurrences with this well known: thus, the very access to a renowned university in itself often a social issue that we scripted, the university library there still appears as the locus of knowledge through excellence in teaching and research, finally, also enjoys social recognition which places regularly as one of last resort in a society that loses its memory or still looking for the potential of an unsolved equation or the meaning of a dead language ...
Just when it began to reform higher education in our country, without doubt we should be concerned that the main reservoir symbolic that we have to think about modernization comes mainly the United States. The cinema is the art of building par excellence. It helps us think our lives together and share our dreams and concerns. If in France, few filmmakers are "past" as such by the university - the royal road of the excellent training residing FEMIS - can we expect tomorrow writers inspired by the university that they originally came to help us imagine a university that looks like us? If it has become trivial to state that our policies when they come from the Grandes Ecoles, often have some difficulty thinking of the social world that is theirs, just because they have not been trained in universities with the majority of the student population of France, then we can base the hope that French cinema continues him to invent, as has so often do, about life, about our lives, allowing us to issue - this wish can be formed - a few years, the Cesar for Best French Film Campus. This proposal will seem absurd or disturbing to many. This is normal. But take a moment to understand everything that bothers us when the installation actually apprehend and it almost the same movement in the road still to go until the University becomes a representation "natural" in our social imagination.
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