Try the faithless husband in John Sayle's Lianna(1983).  There's a great scene
where he explains the relationship between editing and meaning to his class by
editing text on a blackboard.  In an allied field, there's the professor of
Communications in the foyer of the New Yorker theatre in Annie Hall.

Mark

Dana Polan wrote:

> cross-listed with h-film:
>
> I am looking for images of film professors -- theorists and historians more
> than production faculty (as in, I suppose, The Doors) -- in popular culture
> and media:  films, tv shows, novels, etc.  The kind of thing I'm thinking
> about includes:  Ryan O'Neal as a professor of semiotics and postwar
> American film in Irreconcilable Differences, a professor of early film
> history in the TV show Crazy like a Fox, the NYU professors in The
> Freshman.  Are there others?
>
> Thanks!
> --Dana Polan
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