Hi all, This week’s In Media Res line-up: (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org): Monday, March 10, 2008 – Robert Arnett (Old Dominion University) presents: “Architecture and Narrative in Michael Mann’s Crime Films”. Tuesday, March 11, 2008 – Lisa Nakamura (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign) presents: “What Steven Wants: Gestural Computing, Digital Manual Labor, and the Boom! Moment” Wednesday, March 12, 2008 – James Daniel Elam (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) presents: “‘Bollywood’s Index: Allusions and Inside Jokes in Om Shanti Om” Thursday, March 13, 2008 – Craig O. Stewart (Old Dominion University) presents: “No intelligence allowed?” Friday, March 14, 2008 – Bernard Timberg (East Carolina University Greenville) presents: “Ornament and Crime: Figuring Out Space in Damages” Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org ABOUT IN MEDIA RES 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 250-300-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 3014 Batten Arts & Letters (BAL) 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 _________________________________________________________________ At a loss for words? Find them by playing Seekadoo! Play now! http://g.msn.ca/ca55/208 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]