Accordingly, Pinter's now-complete oeuvre can be assessed with an entirely appropriate emphasis on the later works, which, like Beckett's late-career "dramaticules" tend to edulcorate the decades-earlier full-length works, shortening their form and often perforce removing any semblance of comedy but refining and intensifying the presentation of preoccupations that had actually "been there" all along.

The tendency of fiction to idealize and edulcorate reality throughout the centuries has enraged some writers so much as to push them to point their finger at such abuses.

Indeed, the tendency to dismiss film as an inherently inferior form of representation--one which must pander to mass audiences and therefore must simplify and edulcorate its referent--makes the "and" of such course titles masquerade for something more like "at the service of." To foreground the problem of how to link the cinema-studies component with its interdisciplinary counterpart, I have chosen to replace the sly and deceptive "and" with a brazen and somewhat violent slash.