Hi all, This week’s In Media Res line-up: (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org): Monday, March 12, 2007 – Vamsee K. Juluri (University of San Francisco) presents: “Bollywood for the Trees” Tuesday, March 13, 2007 – Dave Parry (University of Albany) presents: “Racism, "Realism," and High School Sports” Wednesday, March 14, 2007 – Dan Leopard (St. Mary’s College of California) presents: “41 Shots” Thursday, March 15, 2007 – Vicki Mayer (Tulane University) presents: “The Road Home, the Tourist Version” Friday, March 16, 2007 – David Golumbia (University of Virginia) presents: “Put a Little Serotonin in Me” Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org 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 100-150-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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Avi Santo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Theatre Arts Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529 (757) 683-6971 [log in to unmask] Co-Coordinating Editor: MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org Co-Creator: Flow: Television and Media Culture http://www.flowtv.org _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu