>If there's one weakest I've witnessed in academia is its tendancy to >overly defend one's particular discipline, often resorting to character >assassination to dispel the disciplines of others because they can't >adequately articulate why their approach is of more value perhaps just because it would exemplify this "going for the man, not the ball" approach (to use a rugby term), people here have politely declined to comment on weddle's breezy book on peckinpah... ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org