This week’s In Media Res theme is Queer Americana (August 8-12). Here's the line-up: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/ Monday August 8, 2011 – Jessica Moore (North Carolina State University) presents: Intimate Relationships: Exploring the Real and Reel Dynamics of Americana Tuesday August 9, 2011 – Virginia Bonner (Clayton State University) presents: Steers and Queers: The Southern Gothic in Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation (2003) Wednesday August 10, 2011 – Christina B. Hanhardt (University of Maryland) presents: Gay Main Street Thursday August 11, 2011 – Elizabeth Gould (University of Toronto) presents: The Music Man Doesn’t Get the Girl Friday August 12, 2011 – Melanie Janus (Independent Scholar) presents: TBA Theme week organized by Rebecca Jackson (Georgia State University). To receive links for each day’s posts and see our latest calls for curators, please be sure “like” our newly launched Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mediacommons.inmediares You can also follow us on Twitter at @MC_IMR For more information, please contact In Media Res at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or email the Coordinating Editor, Alisa Perren, at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Best, The In Media Res Team ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu