Introducing myself, I have been a subscriber to this list since early 2008, but have been very quiet until recently. I have enjoyed reading many of the posts here, and have a very keen interest in film and literature (my two undergraduate majors). I'm particularly interested in 1920-1960 films, with a very keen interest in Hitchcock, Visconti, Lean, Ford, Powell, Lang, Huston, Curtiz, Resnais, Demey (really only Lola & The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), Varda, Ozu. My favourite film style is film noir and I also have a keen interest in noir literature of the 1920s-1940s. I'm currently studying Cinema Authorship and stuides in Eighteenth-Century Literature (female authors) at the University of Newcastle. Both courses are taught by very enthusiastic lecturers I recently sought people's opinions / ideas on a Hitchcock film project I was studying - several contributors referred to me as a 'kid' who had stumbled onto this board accidentally, or who thought I would deliberately approach authors of journal papers. It's interesting how we make judgements about people (I've done it myself), but I've been here for over two years, and I'm not a 'kid', I'm a mature age student -38 years old. I felt it was very important to introduce myself. I have valued everyone's comments and input, both positive and negative (I take all criticism constructively), and I have no intention of contacting any influential authors of peer reviewed papers with regard to my research. I look forward to reading the posts here but for the most part I'm an observer and not a poster. I hope I have dispelled any wild myths about myself as a person and as a student. I take my work extremely seriously - both as a student and as a library technician. I also apologise about my very bad spelling in several of the earlier posts - I have a disability which affects my concentration and typing at times. Regards Peter ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html