Welcome to a special Sopranos-themed week from In Media Res. All the pieces appearing this week will be focused on the series, which aired its final original episode a couple of weeks ago in the US (though not everywhere around the globe). Our curators will be approaching The Sopranos’ contributions to and place within media studies and television history from myriad perspectives. Please feel free to respond to their comments and add your own thoughts and ideas about the series. This week’s IMR contributions also serve as a lead in for The Sopranos: A Wake* Conference to be held at Fordham University May 8-10, 2008. Over the course of the summer, IMR will host several themed weeks dedicated to particular television series, media events, and scholarly topics. Our hope is that these intertwined nodes will form a larger networked conversation. So, without further adieu, this week’s In Media Res line-up: Monday, June 25, 2007 – David Lavery (Brunel University) presents: “Paulie Walnuts” Tuesday, June 26, 2007 – Janet McCabe (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Kim Akkas (Freelance writer) presents: “You have options …” Wednesday, June 27, 2007 – Douglas Howard (University of Suffolk) presents: “The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos” Thursday, June 28, 2007 – Jason Jacobs (Griffith University) presents: “The Haunting of Spiders, Cities and DVDs” Friday, June 29, 2007 – Maurice Yacower (University of Calgary) presents: “The Feminist Sopranos” Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.orgIn Media Res is envisioned as an experiment in just one sort of collaborative, multi-modal scholarship that MediaCommons will aim tofoster. Its primary goal is to provide a forum for more immediate critical engagement with media in a manner closer to how we typically experiencemediated 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 topromote an online dialogue amongst media scholars and the public about contemporary media scholarship through clips chosen for either theirtypicality or a-typicality in demonstrating narrative strategies, genre formulations, aesthetic choices, representational practices, institutionalapproaches, fan engagements, etc.Best,Avi Santo----------------------------------------------------------------------Avi Santo, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Communication and Theatre ArtsOld Dominion UniversityNorfolk, Virginia 23529(757) [log in to unmask] Editor: MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Networkhttp://mediacommons.futureofthebook.orgCo-Creator: Flow: Television and Media Culture http://www.flowtv.org _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org