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Article: Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies.
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- Cineaste
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- January 1, 1997
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On the cover of this anthology is a publicity still from A Chump at Oxford, a 1940 Laurel and Hardy film. Stan and Ollie, sporting graduation caps and ill-fitting school attire, stand before a blackboard, their faces and hands puzzling out the solution to the arithmetic problem on the board behind them: "2x2=." Their solutions to preceding problems written just above - "2+2=7" and "3+3=9" - compound the humor, rendering the strained and earnest efforts of our would-be scholars both futile and ludicrous. The point of this cleverly chosen image - abundantly expanded in the book's introductory essays by its editors - is clear: in the present state of academic film studies, ...