[Filmfestivalresearch] Announcing In Media Res Film Festival theme week

[Karen Petruska]

This week's In Media Res special theme week focuses on Film Festivals, with
contributions from FFRN members.  Please visit the IMR
site<http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/>and enter the
conversation in the comments section.

Here's the line-up:
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/

Monday September 13, 2010 – Virginia Wright Wexman (University of Illinois
at Chicago) presents: The Cannes Film Festival and the Excesses of Auteurism

Tuesday September 14, 2010 –  Skadi Lost (Universität Hamburg) presents:
Queer Film and the Film Festival Circuit

Wednesday September 15, 2010 – Toby Lee (Harvard University) presents: (Not)
Being There: Presence, Absence, Institutional Space, the Politics of Place

Thursday September 16, 2010 – Robert Moses Peaslee (Texas Tech University)
presents: The Importance of [Seemingly Permeable] Boundaries at the Film
Festival

Friday September 17, 2010 – Brendan Kredell (Northwestern University)
presents: The Different Hats of Toronto’s Bell Lightbox

Theme Week Organized by Karen Petruska (Georgia State University)

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Best,
The In Media Res Team