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 > > ---- > 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] ---- 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]