I know it's a bit early, but I'm moving to a new inst. and will be off-line from mid-July to Sept. So, is anyone out there interested in a panel for SCS 98 (in San Diego?) that might involve the issues of: 1. TV sports as ritual OR 2. the TV apparatus as mechanical shaman My own work addresses these issues from a psycho-theatrical viewpoint. I presented an essay (with such POV) at the 1996 SCS Conf. that has since been published in SPECTATOR 16.2 as "The Real Edges of the Screen: Cinema's Theatrical and Communal Ghosts." I also have an essay on Jeffrey Dahmer appearing in the forthcoming anthology from Wayne State, MYTHOLOGIES OF VIOLENCE, ed. Christopher Sharrett. My own book, EDGES OF LOSS: FROM MODERN DRAMA TO POSTMODERN THEORY will be available next year from Univ. of Michigan Press. Please contact me soon ([log in to unmask]) if you have similar interests. Or write to me in the fall: Mark Pizzato Dept. of Drama and Theatre Univ. of N. Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]