The author argues that film studies in the United States have increasingly become ghettonised, deviating from the rich legacies of Eisenstein and Basin.

• 摘要自1960年代开始逐步确立自身学科身份的美国电影研究，已呈现出日益“书斋化”的倾向，并导致了电影研究和电影创作之间的断裂。