Welcome to a special Guilty Pleasures-themed week from In Media Res. All the contributions this week address this concept through texts that we, as scholars, are often conflicted to admit we enjoy watching. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments and add your own thoughts and ideas about the series as well.
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This week’s In Media Res line-up:
Monday, February 18, 2008 – Dan Leopard (St. Mary’s College) presents: “Carl Sagan’s Contact”
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 – Barbara Selznick (University of Arizona) presents: "Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls”
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 – Michael Z. Newman (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) presents: "Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang
Twins's ‘Wait (The Whisper Song)’”
Thursday, February 21, 2008 – Sarah Kremen-Hicks (Independent Scholar) presents: "A Demonic Ménage à Trois: Audience Participation and Bedroom Politics in Hex”
Friday, February 22, 2008 – Jeremy Butler (University of Alabama) presents: "Guts Don't Come Cheap in the Cinématheque, Pal: Guilt, Pleasure, and America's Funniest Home Videos”
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 300-350-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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Avi Santo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
3014 Batten Arts & Letters (BAL)
Department of Communication and Theatre Arts
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia 23529
(757) 683-6971
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Co-Coordinating Editor: MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org
Co-Creator: Flow: Television and Media Culture
http://www.flowtv.org
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