Science + Technology + Society + Cinema
It should be easy to assess the STS aspect of cinema as it certainly ticks all the boxes for science, technology, and society. Filmmaking is a discipline – or at least it was eventually considered as one, being the youngest of the art forms, when the art of cinema was taken seriously (instituting the study of craft in the academe). Film is a technological invention and remains to be one as innovations are constantly made in the medium (coming of sound and color). And finally, if I may say, cinema moves society – economically, spiritually, culturally, and politically. Being a film student in such a university had led me to the conclusion that cinema implicates all disciplines. You name it! From different philosophies, abstracts, and ideologies, to sciences of all sorts, cinema becomes a significant, if not the most important, medium to “represent” them. It is said that cinema is the culmination of all the arts, I wish to agree but I am not writing to glorify cinema per se because that ...