THANKS: MAYBE NOT SO OT! TEXT BOOKS
DEAR ALL, Thanks for your replies and good ideas. The only problem is that, as we are in Barbados, there will be shipping to be added on top though Amazon or Abe may STILL work out cheaper. I will suggest them. Given the number of on list replies I guess this wasn't too OT. CHEERS! BOB Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/ "Live as if you are going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you are going to live forever". Mahatma Gandhi -----Original Message----- From: BOB KISS [mailto:bobkiss@caribsurf.com] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:13 AM To: ALT PHO PROC. Subject: WAY OT! TEXT BOOKS DEAR PHOTO EDUCATORS ON THIS LIST, PLEASE reply to me off list on this one as I am certain that it will be of little interest to most of the list. Here in Barbados I have been drafted to teach a first year, first semester course on Intro to Cinema, a survey course where we see 11 films (the usual suspects; Kane, Caligari, Potemkin, etc.) and the students write critiques. The syllabus (aka silly bus) was written and the texts chosen by the previous instructor, approved by the University academic committee and, therefore etched in stone. I have no problem with the silly bus and the texts are rather good. What has me floored is the COST of the texts!!! I was shocked! O.K., I haven't bought a text book since the late 80s when I studied film making at NYU (in my spare time while putting in 60 hours a week running my photo studio). They seemed a bit steep then ($20 to $30) but these books are WAY OTT price wise! Bordwell and Thompson's FILM ART-An Introduction $70 at Barnes & Noble and $80 locally (imported) Corrigan's SHORT GUIDE TO WRITING ABOUT MOVIES (really a pamphlet!!!) $35 at B&N and $40 locally. I guess I am just out of the loop but if someone is taking 5 or 6 courses they are spending $600 to $720 just on books and I am certain that law, medical and psych students have it worse! Is this the way of the academic world now? CHEERS! BOB Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/ <http://www.bobkiss.com/> "Live as if you are going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you are going to live forever". Mahatma Gandhi
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