Probly am overstating the obvious, but the thoughtful replies here and elsewhere indicate how cinema aesthetics, creativity and fortunes of the auteur, so forth are inextricably articulated with contemporary industry conditions and audience's horizon of reception role of critics in cinema in cinema and elsewhere would not rate so high altho we would like to believe otherwise (except in rare instances such as Philip Roth's singlehanded deconstruction of author of BY LOVE POSSESSED {James Gould Cozzens?}. again very interesting thread hr greenberg md endit ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]