Weird...don't know what to think yet...

Weirdest published thesis ever?

"I will argue here that Coolidge's early books--particularly Space (1970), The Maintains (1974), Polaroid (1975), Quartz Hearts (1978), Own Face (1978), and Smithsonian Depositions/Subject to a Film--can be read as on ongoing, allegorical enactment of the process of filmmaking, from its initial phase as a microlevel chemical process of crystal distillation (in Space and The Maintains), to the orienting of those crystals to make the image-sensitive surface of the film/text itself (in Polaroid), to the 'developing' of actual 'photographic' images (in Quartz Hearts and Own Face), and finally to the making of a movie (Jaws) in Subject to a Film."

--Michael Golston, "At Clark Coolidge: Allegory and the Early Works," American Literary History, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 295-316.