This week’s In Media Res<http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/> theme focus is Extreme Cinema (May 5 - May 9, 2014).

Here's the line-up:

Monday, May 5, 2014 - Niels Niesson (University of Minnesota) presents: Love in the Afternoon: L’humanité (Bruno Dumont, 1999)
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - Tanya Horeck & Tina Kendall (Anglia Ruskin University) presents: Extreme Memes: O-Faces, Paper Bags and the Paratexts of Nymph()maniac
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - Veronica Fitzpatrick (University of Pittsburgh) presents: Not Shock, But Confirmation: Rape as Ordinary Horror
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - Tim Palmer (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) presents: IRREVERSIBLE: The Climatic Sequence’s Flight to Abstract Rapture
Friday, May 9, 2014 - Adam Cottrel (Georgia State University) presents: Extreme Action at the Limits of Endurance

Theme week organized by Adam Cottrel<http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/users/adam-cottrel> (Georgia State University).

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Best,
The In Media Res Team

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