Robert, Boy, with all this deferring going on, it's a wonder we ever accomplish anything. Do we ever accomplish anything? No, wait, that's a question for another list. In an attempt not to clutterr this list, I will be very brief: I.A. Richards is the great, great, great-granddaddy of modern, academic literary criticism; he, and a few others, started that now infamous, and now largely discredited, School of New Criticism. And while he is certainly easier to read than say, the Yale Critics, he's still no cakewalk either. Thanks for the additional film anthology source. Perhaps another reason why books such as those are not published in abundance anymore has to do with the publishing industry itself these days. No flash means no cash! --Patrick