Elaborating on the explication of the ways that film/video/cinema are "texts": Are the works of people like Leonardo da Vinci and Jackson Pollack "texts"? Is a particular production of a play by, say, Chekov, a "text"? During the whole run of the play? On a particular performance? ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]