Hi All,
I'm involved with a digital humanities site called In Media Res
(http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/). We're looking for
contributors. I thought some ARLIS-ians would be interested and/or some
of the faculty & grad students & artists we know.
In Media Res, a website devoted to experimenting in collaborative,
multi-modal online forms of scholarship, asks contributors to curate a
30-second to 3-minute clip accompanied by a 300 to 350-word
impressionistic provocation. Descriptions of the planned theme-weeks
included below are meant as a guide only—individual contributors have
wide berth for their own creativity and interests.
Here is a list of the Theme Weeks; instructions for contributing are at
the bottom. Propose a future theme week or submit for an open call week:
We welcome suggestions for future theme weeks...
July 5-9 Sports and Media:
The World Cup, Wimbledon, baseball, and the 100-year anniversary of the
Jack Johnson v. Jim Jeffries fight all occur at the beginning of July.
Topics could include sports events listed above, other national and
international sporting events, sports culture and journalism, gender in
sports, sports fans, etc.
July 12-16 Summer TV Season:
We encourage submissions on a range of topics about Summer TV
including, but not limited to, a discussion of an individual summer show
or event (made for TV movies, miniseries, etc.); a look at historical
moments in the development of the summer television season; the network
adoption of a summer season; or the use of marketing and branding with
summer programming.
August 2-6 Lady Gaga’s gender/queerness:
Leading up to her performance at Lollapalooza, consider Lady Gaga’s
media performances and popularity with attention to her gendered and/or
queer style or aesthetic. Topics could include: Filming the femme
fatale; (s)experimental avant-garde styles; queer monstrosity; feminist
figurations for embodied media forms or formats; strange mediations
drawing “gay gays” to Gaga; etc.
August 9-13 Action Films:
To correspond with the upcoming release of Sylvester Stallone’s The
Expendables (8/13/2010), address the current state of the action film
and its displays of masculinity. Examples of topics might include:
hardbody nostalgia (political, cultural, etc.); presentations of the
body; contemporary action genres; global circulation of action films;
technology; bodies, action sequences, and CGI; and stardom in
contemporary Hollywood.
August 16-20 Wrestling:
To coincide with the WWE’s (World Wrestling Entertainment) annual
SummerSlam pay-per-view event, address the contemporary landscape and
state of professional wrestling. Examples of topics range from: an
assessment of the wrestling industry that is dominated by Vince
McMahon’s WWE; an evaluation of the genre, including changes over
time, region, and promoter/company; wrestling audiences; and the role of
professional wrestling in contemporary culture.
August 23-27 Regulation:
Address a recent regulatory or policy debate, such as the Comcast-NBCU
merger, network neutrality, the Future of Media Initiative, etc.
Examples of a video prompt might include a clip of news coverage, a
video by an activist group, a comic commentary, and clips of protestors,
etc.
August 30- Sept 3 Children's Culture:
In anticipation of the new school year, consider the current state of
children's culture, including either children's media (film, TV, games,
and web-based texts) or media representations of children. Topics may
include Hollywood’s summer film releases, the current state of
children's television such as the products of Disney or the Children’s
Television Workshop, marketing materials from the “back to school”
season, or the economics of children’s media more broadly.
Sept 6-10 Dragon*Con:
We are looking for a variety of topics relating to Dragon*Con - one of
the largest science fiction and fantasy conventions in the United
States. Examples of potential topics include acts of
fan-production/fandom (fan films, fan fiction, costume creation, prop
creation, collecting licensed and fan-produced merchandise, etc.);
role-playing; fan clubs; star studies/the fetish of the celebrity; the
globalization of media; genre hybridity; etc.
Sept 13-17 Film Festivals:
As the Toronto International Film Festival completes this week, we
invite contributions about this and other film festivals. Possible
topics include defining film festival studies or the film canon, the
film festival and nationalism, the festival and transnational flows,
cinephilia, the audience, or the festival and the archive, among
others.
All correspondence can be sent to the editors of In Media Res at
[log in to unmask] Be sure to include the name of the theme
week you would like to be involved with in the subject line of the
email. Proposals need not be any longer than a sentence or a general
idea. Additional guidelines will be provided upon receipt of your
proposal. If you are proposing a future theme week or wish to submit for
an open call week, please note this in the subject line as well.
Nedda H. Ahmed
Arts Librarian
Georgia State University
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