So do I. Best Jenna --------------------------------------------------- *Dr Jenna Ng Newton Trust / Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) University of Cambridge* On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Josie Dolan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I give my full support to this idea. > > Josie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Announcement list for the British Association of Film, Television > and Screen Studies [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James > Chapman > Sent: 29 October 2012 10:57 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: No more 'solipsistic film criticism' please! > > I wonder if it would be possible - indeed if anyone else would support the > idea - of following a suggestion made by Leo to open a discussion forum on > the BAFTSS website for debates around issues such as 'solipsistic film > criticism'. > > I value the BAFTSS mailing list for getting notifications of conferences, > calls for papers, seminars and new publications, that are sometimes of > interest to me, and/or to colleagues and research students. However, I have > no interest in the (to my mind) rather tedious contretemps over 'solipistic > film criticism' or spats over somebody's response to somebody else's review > of somebody else's book. Yet over the last week I've had a dozen or more > messages in my inbox because this debate is being carried out on the > general mailing list. If I unsubscribe from the list, however, I won't get > the announcements about conferences, publications, etc. > > If there were a discussion forum on the BAFTSS website, then those who are > interested in following or contributing to these debates could do so with > all the vim and vigour we have seen in these messages, while those of us > who remain uninterested could remain blissfully ignorant of the whole thing. > > James > > -------------------------------------------------------- > BAFTSS mailing list > -------------------------------------------------------- > To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the BAFTSS list, please > visit: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=baftss > ------------------------------------------------------- > This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members of > BAFTSS. > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > BAFTSS mailing list > -------------------------------------------------------- > To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the BAFTSS list, please > visit: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=baftss > ------------------------------------------------------- > This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members of > BAFTSS. > -------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------- BAFTSS mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the BAFTSS list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=baftss ------------------------------------------------------- This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members of BAFTSS. --------------------------------------------------------