Tinkcom Matthew, Villarejo Amy. Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural

"Perhaps one of the most pernicious ideologies at work in the world today is that intellectual work is a singular and isolated enterprise, and there is no small irony to the idea that the fantasy of the scholarly ivory tower has now officially yielded to the forces under which colleges and universities are becoming increasingly modeled on the corporate sector, all of this in the name of privatization. Despite this, and despite the plain fact that the work of scholars frequently does isolate them one from the other, this volume should stand as proof of the possibilities of collective work, to the degree that its authors all found to be compelling the project of thinking about how the fields of film studies and cultural studies have transformed each other. "271 pp.