I think my undergrad was possibly a bit more radical that my grad work. In undergrad I did an auteurist course that covered Peter Greenaway as well as Howard Hawks. My grad degree was done at Wisconsin under David Bordwell, and he was all about Classical Hollywood Cinema. Though I did do an avante-garde cinema class there that was painful at the time (I wrote a brutal essay on structuralist film) but brilliant in retrospect. Before-kidlet, me and the Sweetie would go to the local cinematheque to see the filmmakers that perplexed me in grad school and I lurved them. I still like Point Break, though. *g* And I have never seen as much porn as I did during my M.A. (Porn studies were very big back in the early '90s.)

I'm definitely checking out your LoM piece now. I'm always in for work that breaks down borders and does the unexpected. I wish more fandoms were open to that sort of play.