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August 2010, Week 3

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Darcey West <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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This week's In Media Res special theme week is called Professional Wrestling. Here's the line-up:

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/

Monday August 16, 2010 – David Ray Carter (Critic) presents: A History of Violence: politics, profits, and the changing face of the WWE
Tuesday August 17, 2010 – Cory Barker (Bowling Green State University) presents: Making the scripted more real? Pro wrestling and Twitter

Wednesday August 18, 2010 – Sam Ford (Massachusetts Institute for Technology) presents: "All I Care about Is Me: I’m ‘The Nature Body": The Permeable Boundaries of Pro Wrestling’s Fictional World

Thursday August 19, 2010 – Ari Berenstein (411Mania.com) presents: "The MSG Curtain Call": A Conflation of Front and Backstage in Professional Wrestling

Friday August 20, 2010 – Bryan Alvarez (Figure Four Weekly) presents: History Repeats Itself?: How Wrestling Regards Its Performers

  To receive links for each day’s posts and see our latest calls for curators, please join our Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46530613457

  You can also follow us on Twitter at @MC_IMR.

  ABOUT IN MEDIA RES

  In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship.

  Each day, a different scholar will curate a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response.

  We use the title "curator" because, like a curator in a museum, you are repurposing a media object that already exists and providing context through your commentary, which frames the object in a particular way.

  The clip/comment combination are intended to both introduce the curator's work to the larger community of scholars (as well as non-academics who frequent the site) and, hopefully, encourage feedback/discussion from that community.

  Theme weeks are designed to generate a networked conversation between curators. All the posts for that week will thematically overlap and the participating curators each agree to comment on one another's work.

  Our goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media.

  In Media Res provides a forum for more immediate critical engagement with media at a pace closer to how we typically experience media.

  In Media Res is a publication of MediaCommons. MediaCommons is a strong advocate for the right of media scholars to quote from the materials they analyze, as protected by the principle of "fair use." If such quotation is necessary to a scholar's argument, if the quotation serves to support a scholar's original analysis or pedagogical purpose, and if the quotation does not harm the market value of the original text -- but rather, and on the contrary, enhances it -- we must defend the scholar's right to quote from the media texts under study.

  For more information, please contact In Media Res at [log in to unmask] or email the Coordinating Editor, Alisa Perren, at [log in to unmask]

  Best,

  The In Media Res Team


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