Welcome to a special dance and media-themed week from In Media Res. Please feel free to respond to their comments and add your own thoughts and ideas about the series as well. This week’s In Media Res line-up: Monday, December 3, 2007 – Dana Heller (Old Dominion University) presents: “National Dance Styles and Global Television Formats” Tuesday, December 4, 2007 – Kelli Kilgore (City of Virginia Beach) presents: “You Can't Stop the Beat: Dance the Gen X Addiction” Wednesday, December 5, 2007 – Zachary Dorsey (University of Texas at Austin) presents: “Slick Moves: Queer Fight Choreography in The Transporter” Thursday, December 6, 2007 – Jane Desmond (University of Illinois – Champaign Urbana) presents: "Unexpected Virtuosity and the Dancing Cockatiel” Friday, December 7, 2007 – Anna Beatrice Scott (University of California -- Riverside) presents: “Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit” 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 _________________________________________________________________ Discover new ways to stay in touch with Windows Live! Visit the City @ Live today! http://getyourliveid.ca/?icid=LIVEIDENCA006 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org