I just read a provocative article by Andrew Britton: Britton, Andrew. "The Philosophy of the Pigeonhole: Wisconsin Formalism and 'The Classical Style'." CineAction! 15 (Winter 1988-89): 47-63. I would call it an intelligent but unnecessarily vicious attack on the theoretical underpinnings of this book: Bordwell, David; Janet Staiger; and Kristin Thompson. The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960. New York: Columbia UP, 1985. Britton is not merely interested in scoring points off Bordwell et al, because he is attacking what he sees as a certain naivete in film studies, of which that book is merely a well-developed example. Without going into the pros and cons of his views (I think he's a bit unfair in using that book to represent the evil, though he has some powerful and memorable means to dismember it), I wonder if anyone knows where and what he teaches? At the beginning of the piece he says it is "an extract from a forthcoming book entitled Reading Hollywood...", and this article was published 3 years ago. Yet I can find no record of any such book, or anything similar-sounding, published by Britton since then. Can anyone help me out? I'm curious to see how he presents in practice what he presents in theory in the article. Rick Francis, Dept of Comparative Literature Box 1077; Washington University One Brookings Drive; St. Louis, MO 63130 Internet: [log in to unmask]