look at several essays on "looking through movies", collection came out several years ago edited by Mark Crispin Miller with good piece by him, too. I addressed the high concept/blockbuster phenomenon, relationship to commodification, narcissism so forth, in "On the McMovie: Less is Less at the Simplex", in SCREEN MEMORIES: HOLLYWOOD CINEMA ON THE PSYCHOANALYIC COUCH, Columbia University Press, l993, now in paperback. There are several relevent citations in that essay. Good luck! Harvey Roy Greenberg, MD ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite