Mike, The results of that conference were published in a book called THE STRUCTURALIST CONTROVERSY,if my own memory serves me correctly. Bill On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Mike Frank wrote: > >Mike Frank <[log in to unmask]> writes: > > >>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 > > > >Pardon me, but I may have come in late. Pray tell, what exactly happened in > >May of 1968 that has to do with with criticism? Lots of things happened in > >'68, most of them unpleasant. To what is Mr Frank referring to? Bobby > >Kennedy's assassination? (Wasn't that in June?) The French student > >revolution? What? > > > >____________________________________________________________ > >ALAN BELL Santa Rosa, California > >============================================================ > > > > > sorry to be so enigmatic . . . i foolishly took it for granted that this jokey > reference would be pretty self-explanatory > > but in fact alan bell got it quite right . . . the french student revolution > has come to be seen, if not as the actual source of many new directions in > contemporary thought, at least as a convenient marker of the intellectual > revolution in which the althusserian, derridian, lacanian, foucaludian, > barthesian, de manian post struturalist, deconstrnctionist, semiotic armies > stormed the barricades of conventional thought > > if i'm not mistaken it was at just about the same time that johns hopkins > sponsored a conference that marked the first significant appearance of many new > french intellectuals on the american [academic] scene . . . so from this side > of the atlantic that date serves as a useful watershed in intellectual and > cultural history [but i speak here only from unreliable memory and welcome any > relevant information that i've left out or gotten wrong] > > mike frank > > > > mike frank > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite > ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]