bondurango (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

When it comes to grammar, Lackey, you are definitely lacking since a noun phrase is not a complete sentence. There's nothing more amusing than a fool who tries to make excuses for his ignorance by loading a gun with bullets in order to show everybody how good he is at shooting himself in the foot.

DanLackey (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

A long noun phrase meant to identify a certain annoying species of arrogance. What kind of arrogance? That of an "expert." What kind of "expert"? One who burdens us with glib and gruesome jargon. A long noun phrase with a modifying sequence of five prepositional phrases. Nothing in that so shameful as your boorish incivility.

bondurango (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Also, with shameful grammar & syntax like yours, you will never go beyond being anything but a dilettante unless & until you learn how to write a complete sentence.

bondurango (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

How would a student know the difference? Obviously, he'd be insightful to somebody with no film education. But a student of film should never be a dilettante & they certainly should never be presumptuous about whether other people find Professor Singer insightful. Unlike you, I certainly wasn't being presumptuous about this being a history course but taking one per my recomendation would render Singer's course an elective, at best, if it isn't already one.

bondurango (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

A better question is who? Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema and Director of the Graduate Film Program at San Francisco State University. Check out his bio on Wikipedia. Also, Peter Wollen is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He's the co-writer of Antonioni's "The Passenger" & directed "Black September" starring Tilda Swinton. Their books should be required reading for any film student. Read Eisenstein's "The Film Sense" something Bazin never did.

denisewyllie (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

'A good course in film theory & production should cover the political, psychological & ideological functions of spectatorship.' where

DanLackey (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The arrogance of an "expert" with his special knowledge of "mythemic structures and taxonomy" and his formidable postmodern insight into the "ideological functions of spectatorship." A course for "bondurango": Remedial Reading of Youtube Video Titles," Lesson One being the title of this course, which so far as I can tell is NOT "History of Film." As a Youtube dilettante, not a student, I may not always agree with Professor Singer but I am sure that most of his students find him insightful.

bondurango (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What a rambling pile of self serving crap. As a former film student, I suggest you don't waste your time with this kind of ahistoric drivel. A good course in the history of film should cover the development of cinematic language. Take a course in film genre to learn more about the mythemic structures & taxonomy of film. A good course in film theory & production should cover the political, psychological & ideological functions of spectatorship. This is what you "need" to know about film.

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Slimdawgc (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It's a first class. I'm sure he doesn't want to scare people off.