Personally I find it quite extraordinary that you should think it
appropriate to copy in the entire BAFTSS mailing list on your solipsistic
postings.
On Tue, October 23, 2012 6:22 pm, Warren Buckland wrote:
> Dear colleagues
>
> For anyone interested in the 'Solipsistic Film Criticism' debate, you may
> like to know that I have posted a reply to Alex Clayton and Andrew Klevan
> on my webpage:
>
> http://warrenbuckland.com/announcements.html
>
> Here are the opening paragraphs, to give some context (all references are
> to be found on the website):
>
>
> Revisiting 'Solipsistic Film Criticism': Reply to Clayton and Klevan
> Warren Buckland
>
> Alex Clayton and Andrew Klevan (C&K) have written a 'Reply' to my review
> essay 'Solipsistic Film Criticism', published in the 'New Review of Film
> and Television Studies'. My essay, a review of their edited book 'The
> Language and Style of Film Criticism', presented the opportunity to
> discuss
> in some detail the different assumptions underlying textual analysis and
> film criticism. However, to consider further these differing assumptions,
> we also need to address a few of C&K's errors.
>
> C&K ask in the opening paragraph of their 'Reply': 'It is difficult to see
> why a reviewer (who is also the journal’s editor) devotes ten pages to
> criticising, polemically, what he takes to be three ineffectual, and
> sometime incompetent, essays'. In other words, C&K are wondering why a
> reviewer would be disappointed with their book. At the end of their
> 'Reply,' C&K recommend the reader consult a different review of 'The
> Language and Style of Film Criticism', by Nicholas Forster. It is easy to
> see why. Forster writes: 'each essay elegantly dances with unique style';
> 'rarely does a thought fade into the ether', etc. I must admit I failed to
> praise C&K's 'elegantly dancing style' in my review essay. Instead, I
> critically interrogated and engaged with their arguments and underlying
> assumptions. ...
>
>
> Warren Buckland
> Reader in Film Studies
> Oxford Brookes University
>
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