If you are interested please try to contact me by September 1. This is a proposed panel for SCS 2001. shawn ENTERTAINMENT AND DEMOCRACY As we meet in the nation's capital, this panel seeks to explore the inter-relationships between contemporary democracy and entertainment. Papers should address, through one approach or another, the means by which popular participation in public issues has been/is/can be conducted within the media and spheres of entertainment. Please send title, abstract and contact information to: Shawn Shimpach (New York University Cinema Studies), 200 East 11th Street, #12A, New York, NY 10003, 212.387.0196, or e-mail: [log in to unmask] ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html