Here’s a terrific article

that

appeared last month as a cover story in the Los Angeles Times magazine. The

author sent his daughter to film school, and couldn’t figure out why she was

failing her film theory tests. Then he looked at one of them, and found the

questions to be filled with Marxist gobbledygook. He set out to find out

what has happened to film schools, and discovered that Marxist

deconstructionist academics had colonized them, and were killing the study

and appreciation of moviemaking. All props to Roger Ebert, who remarks in

the story: “Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably

hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an

occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those

who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No

one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these

courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who

are incapable of teaching anything else.”