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