the sad thing is that you're not only completely right but thst this hierarchy goes all the way through. i was appauled at my last conference when the feminist TV folks (who'd split off from the cinema studies group which is looked down on by the lit folks which is looked down on...) wouldn't give us the time of day, because we were studying FANS! (and frankly, they could have used some better audience studies methodology in just about every paper i went to!)

grrr...