Hi all,

Welcome to a special theme week devoted to Procedurals. 

Please feel free to respond to the curators' posts.
 
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This week’s In Media Res line-up:
 
Monday, March 8, 2010 – Steven Cohan (Syracuse University) presents: “‘Looking for things, analyzing them, trying to figure out the world’: Professional expertise and authority in the TV police procedural” 

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 – Jules Odendahl-James (Duke University) presents: "‘Science is no place for storytellers, baby’: Bones as Forensic Procedural”

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 – Amelie Hastie (Amherst College) presents: “‘Just one more thing’: Columbo’s investigation of analog technologies”

Thursday, March 11, 2010 – Grant Wythoff (Princeton University) presents: "‘There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them’: The Procedure of Jules Dassin's The Naked City”

Friday, March 12, 2010 – Derek Kompare (Southern Methodist University) presents: “Professional Lives”

Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment.
 
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