2012
Isabelle Le Corff et al., « L’œuvre cinématographique comme objet de distanciation », HAL-SHS : histoire de l'art, ID : 10670/1.8voasc
This paper deals with a film-viewing experiment that took place with secondary school pupils in health care education, through a device called “health in pictures”. This approach may differ radically from the one applied by teachers in film classes, but they nevertheless pursue their goal through the use of documents meant to help the teacher question the prevailing themes in a film. Such questions as whether or not the film is a masterpiece, a durable one and what its aesthetic values are, are neglected by the health partners. Defining a work of art is a compound issue. In cinema even more acutely than in other arts, the narrative function of the film and its emotional impact might come in place of deeper and more complex artistic meanings. This research focused on the involvement of a teacher of French in the “health in pictures” device. What elements of film analysis derived from this experiment? In what ways did the film La Chambre des Officiers (François Dupeyron, 2001) allow both the teacher and the health care professional to pursue their goals and reach their respective aims?