In regard to the posts about teaching film courses undergraduates might actually get involved with, I'm in the middle of a course which is turning out quite well. I've structured it around Howard Hawks and genre, first showing a genre film from recent years and then a Hawks "predecessor." This allows the opportunity to talk about cultural constructions of gender, nationalism, the way genre conventions are influenced historically, etc. You get the picture. To the list: Memphis Belle Air Force Aliens The Thing Miller's Crossing The Big Sleep Silverado Red River and then two films which are part of "dead" genres, the musical and the screwball comedy: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and His Girl Friday. Of course, you have to foreground the fact that these films, although often dealing with "otherness," there isn't much cultural diversity in these films--there's the danger of alienating your African-American, international, Hispanic, Asian-American, etc. students. Anyway, sorry to go on about the class, but I'm ecstatic. Hell, they even enjoyed Air Force. Go figure. D. Matthew Ramsey