am i the only one of the list who finds the adulation of the person godard--as opposed to his work--an adulation that verges on idolatry, more than a little troubling . . . to turn into a heroic figure someone whose work is, both in itself and in the political/cultural sea change it epitomizes, a deconstruction of the idea of the heroic individual seems at best wrong headed . . . i thought we had moved past the romantic interest in the teller to a concern with the implications of the tale . . . more a necessity now that g's contemporary, barthes, and the fellow travelers, have all reminded us that the author [or auteur] is dead and that authors don't write texts anyway, texts write authors . . . or is there something in all of this that i'm missing? mike frank ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]