Philistines and theorists

Michael J Totten takes a swipe at both for their approach to art appreciation and illustrates the dangers of “political dogma that uses art as a prop” with a link to a story in the LA Times.

The piece by David Weddle lifts the veil on film studies at UCSB and lambastes the glass bead game that passes for modern film theory.

David’s daughter is majoring in film studies at UCSB so this is also an epic tale of parental intervention.

I’m only going to say this once.

Go read the whole thing.