Welcome to a special Sopranos-themed week from In Media Res. 
All the pieces appearing this week will be focused on the series, which aired 
its final original episode a couple of weeks ago in the US (though not 
everywhere around the globe). Our curators will be approaching The Sopranos’ 
contributions to and place within media studies and television history from 
myriad perspectives. Please feel free to respond to their comments and add your 
own thoughts and ideas about the series. This week’s IMR contributions 
also serve as a lead in for The Sopranos: A 
Wake* Conference to be held at Fordham University May 8-10, 2008. 
Over the course of the summer, IMR will host several themed weeks 
dedicated to particular television series, media events, and scholarly topics. 
Our hope is that these intertwined nodes will form a larger networked 
conversation. So, without further adieu, this week’s In Media Res 
line-up:
Monday, June 25, 2007 – David Lavery (Brunel University) presents: “Paulie 
Walnuts”
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 – Janet McCabe (Manchester Metropolitan University) 
and Kim Akkas (Freelance writer) presents: “You have options …”
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 – Douglas Howard (University of Suffolk) presents: 
“The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos”
Thursday, June 28, 2007 – Jason Jacobs (Griffith University) presents: “The 
Haunting of Spiders, Cities and DVDs”
Friday, June 29, 2007 – Maurice Yacower (University of Calgary) presents: 
“The Feminist Sopranos”
Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts 
via a comment.
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.orgIn Media Res is envisioned as 
an experiment in just one sort of collaborative, multi-modal scholarship that 
MediaCommons will aim tofoster. Its primary goal is to provide a forum for 
more immediate critical engagement with media in a manner closer to how we 
typically experiencemediated 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 topromote an online 
dialogue amongst media scholars and the public about contemporary media 
scholarship through clips chosen for either theirtypicality or a-typicality 
in demonstrating narrative strategies, genre formulations, aesthetic choices, 
representational practices, institutionalapproaches, fan engagements, 
etc.Best,Avi 
Santo----------------------------------------------------------------------Avi 
Santo, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Communication and Theatre 
ArtsOld Dominion UniversityNorfolk, Virginia 23529(757) 
[log in to unmask] Editor: MediaCommons: A 
Digital Scholarly 
Networkhttp://mediacommons.futureofthebook.orgCo-Creator: Flow: 
Television and Media Culture http://www.flowtv.org
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