In Emma-Kate Crogan's *Love & Other Catastrophes*(1996), Adrian
Martin, one of Australia's best informed film critics, plays a cinema
studies lecturer/ professor. The kind of laid-back academic you used
to find in Australian universities before mad (& bad) managerialism
turned us all into zombies.
Helen Grace

>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
>
>----
>To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L
>in the message.  Problems?  Contact [log in to unmask]


--
Dr Helen Grace
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities,
College of Arts, Education & Social Science
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797, PENRITH SOUTH DC NSW 1797

    Tel: +61 (0)2 9678 7412; Fax:  +61 (0)2 9678 7334
    e-mail:  [log in to unmask]

----
Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the
University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu