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Dear all Personally, I haven't enjoyed the list as much as during the last few days of passionate discussion at any previous point during its existence. The list currently feels, with all its wranglings, messy disagreements and one-word replies, more of an expression of a 'community' (of whatever description) than before. Having lived through many online hiccups of this sort, I'm confident that the list will soon subside to its normal level of traffic so I am not at all worried nor displeased by the recent debates. I also have no problem hitting the delete button very fast and would rather that I had the choice of deleting or not (than if these debates were to be discouraged from the list altogether). Goodness knows, I already do enough deleting of other, less entertaining emails so it's not an extra chore. That's my tuppence worth. Best wishes Nina --- Dr Nina Lübbren Art Historian and Principal Lecturer in Film Studies Deputy Head of Department of English, Communication, Film and Media Anglia Ruskin University East Road Cambridge CB1 1PT [log in to unmask] ________________________________________ From: Announcement list for the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Claydon, E. Anna (Dr.) [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 29 October 2012 11:12 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: No more 'solipsistic film criticism' please! Agreed. It's all got rather circular. Best wishes Anna -----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. 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