By and large I have had a film-oriented day. I haven’t actually watched any films, or done any editing of my thesis, but I’ve continued my obsession with Peter Jackson by watching clips abut the making of the lord of the rings. I was very excited, too, to discover that academic film studies has not actually neglected the trilogy as I suspected. Murray Pomerance has a new book out, called From Hobbits To Hollywood, at last giving jackson’s epic the analytical treatment I’ve yearned to see since 2004. In some ways to see that book published makes me feel less of a mere fanboy, especially given that Pomerance is a writer whose work I draw upon for my own. It feels that my opinion that what Jackson did in producing those film(s) was something exceptional has been confirmed by the wider film community, and I don’t need to feel ashamed about preferring them to Truffaut. In short, it’s good to see I’m not obsessed by films the academic community shuns as populist. It feels like I can, at last, come out about liking lotr.