writing mainly to say "thanks" . . . given the [unexpected] heat that this inquiry has generated it's encouraging to know that one's views are of some little interest to someone . . . but while i'm at it . . . given your sense of how a film course might work do you suppose the same [or similar] goals might be served by teaching a course entirely from video but insisting that the students go "to the movies" at least once every two weeks to see whatever they choose and then write about the experience? . . . i do make them do that . . . but my own sense is that even when they see something on the big screen they respond to it mainly as narrative and not as sepctacle [that is, a fundamentally visual experience] so that i end up wondering whether there's really any point in getting them into the theaters at all mike frank <[log in to unmask]> ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]