Take it from a cinema studies grad: Film theory's not for everyone, but there are riches within the jargon. by Manohla Dargis July 27 2003 "Two thumbs down!" My friend Alexander Horwath, director of the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, isn't a guy who waves around his thumbs around casually; much less a man given to quoting Roger Ebert. But Alex was fuming, his double-digit antipathy directed at an article by David Weddle published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine July 13 with the title "Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology." http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-ca-dargis27jul27,0,1727550.story ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu