First off, I only read that question since it was in bold, perhaps my ideas coincide with yours, but I wanted to respond first so that I can say that I wasnt biased from your opinions.
I think that eventually film will be exclusively taught as any other "art" form is currently being taught. You will have some professor who spent years in a top tier school writing some dissertation so that he can be the authority of costume wigs in elizabethan period pieces. Then they will give him a classroom and young maluable minds fresh for the molding, and have him teach some general survey class and, his instruction, his material, those "perfect" film pieces that he subjects his students to view will be biased because his utopic bliss is grounded in some hair-piece fetish.
I was once told, by my mentor (who taught English at BYU to not further my studies in English Literature, after I got my bachelors degree. After I told him how much I loved reading and studying books of all genre, he told me that graduate school will destroy your love of literature and essentially make you myopic. Your masters program is designed to narrow your view to a certain period- Elizabethan, for instance. Your doctorate work will further narrow your scope to one author and most times one peice of literature and one critical theory (marxist, formalist, feminist, etc). And you study and research for 4+ years on one inch of the miles and miles of literary beauty out there.
Perhaps this seems far fetched...I hope it does and I hope that it never happens, but it probably will. Man hasnt changed in academia since Socrates was sentenced to death by poison for "corrupting the youth." Thats what usually happens to those who fight against the prevaling wind.
Sure there are the exceptions and I hope that anyone who is currently aspiring to be a teacher of Film will follow their dreams and teach their hearts out in their local community college!
If this was a perfect world then teachers would nurture a love for film in their student. That means, even though we might have to bite our tongues once in a while, allowing our students to appreciate films based on "watcher-response"(adapted from literature's reader response).
I dont know much about film theory, I do know that I love watching movies. A great movie is great when I feel like I'm the protagonist while Im watching it. I'm so absorbed in the character that when its over, I still feel like Im the character- like a dream, when you wake up its hard for a short while to distinguish between reality and imagination.
But that's crazy talk, especially for anyone who doesnt have the imagination of a preschooler like I do.
(taken from my comments from http://janasworldofdew.blogspot.com/)
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