film art and Film Art

I'm really loving David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's blog, which I discovered last week (or was the week before that?) via Movie City Indie. One of my big problems with academia (and, it seemed, the academic study of film in particular) was the institution's apparent unwillingness to engage with contemporary journalism, even (or, especially) where areas of interest overlapped. In the latest entry, Thompson responds to a recent piece in the WSJ, in which Joe Morgenstern manages to indict the iPod shuffle for crimes originally committed by Last Year at Marienbad.