Ray Jeffers 07/22/97 02:55 PM Mike Frank wrote the other day: now, as is all too well known, everything that's happened in criticism since may of 1968 has aimed at destroying not only all foundations but the very notion of a foundation as the authoritative source of anything . . . indeed it has worked to eliminate the very idea of the "authoritative" which surely died and was buried along with the author . . . I have been a film fan all my life. I like reading film theory and criticism and I really enjoy lurking on this list and reading all the postings. But the above passage leaves me asking one question. So what happened in May of 1968?? [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.