Welcome to a special 1970s Masculinity and the Media-themed week from In Media Res. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org This week’s In Media Res line-up: Monday, March 17, 2008 – Allison McCracken (DePaul University) presents: “‘The Most Gentle of Men’: Revising the Western Hero in NBC’s Centennial” Tuesday, March 18, 2008 – Joe Wlodarz (University of Western Ontario) presents: " Family Affairs: Gay Visibility and Hegemonic Masculinity in ’70s TV” Wednesday, March 19, 2008 – Elana Levine (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) presents: " Luke Spencer: General Hospital's Repentant Rapist” Thursday, March 20, 2008 – Greg Oguss (University of Southern California) presents: "Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver” Friday, March 21, 2008 – Avi Santo (Old Dominion University) presents: "Hulk Smash Wimpy White Man Who is Also Hulk: Reasserting Masculine Authority through Masochism” 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 300-350-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 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org