Welcome to a special dance and media-themed week from In Media Res.
Please feel free to respond to their comments and add your own thoughts
and ideas about the series as well. 



This week’s In Media Res line-up:



Monday, December 3, 2007 – Dana Heller (Old Dominion University) presents: “National Dance Styles and Global Television Formats”



Tuesday, December 4, 2007 – Kelli Kilgore (City of Virginia Beach)
presents: “You Can't Stop the Beat: Dance the Gen X Addiction”



Wednesday, December 5, 2007 – Zachary Dorsey (University of Texas at
Austin) presents: “Slick Moves: Queer Fight Choreography in The
Transporter”



Thursday, December 6, 2007 – Jane Desmond (University of Illinois –
Champaign Urbana) presents: "Unexpected
Virtuosity and the Dancing Cockatiel”



Friday, December 7, 2007 – Anna Beatrice Scott (University of
California -- Riverside) presents: “Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data
Set and Habit”

Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment.



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In Media Res is envisioned as an experiment in just one sort of
collaborative, multi-modal scholarship that MediaCommons will aim to
foster. Its primary goal is to provide a forum for more immediate
critical engagement with media in a manner closer to how we typically
experience mediated texts.



Each day, a different media scholar will present a 30-second to
3-minute clip accompanied by a 100-150-word impressionistic response.
The goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst media scholars and
the public about contemporary media scholarship through clips chosen
for either their typicality or a-typicality in demonstrating narrative
strategies, genre formulations, aesthetic choices, representational
practices, institutional approaches, fan engagements, etc.



Best,



Avi Santo
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