Mike Frank says: i think that some of us, for temperamental >and/or ideological reasons, care mainly about the range of issues where >generalizations do work, while others care more about the complementary range >where cultural specifics take over I don't understand this talk of "ranges." What is "the range where generalizations do work"? The range of Marxists? Of Capitalists? Of all those somewhere inbetween? Is it the range that a billion Chinese citizens occupy? Or is it the range where women (half the population of the earth) occupy? Perhaps its the range occupied by gay paraplegic Native-American men. Or is it the range occupied by film academics? I challenge anybody to name just one "range" in which discourse is not based on both "generalizations" and "cultural specifics." Jerry ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]