This week’s In Media Res line-up:

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Monday, September 28, 2009 – Eric Hamako (University of Massachusetts) presents: “The Yellow Peril rises from the grave…to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories”

Tuesday, September 29, 2009- Cathy Schlund-Vials (Univ. of Connecticut) Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5

Wednesday, September 30, 2009- Kim Paffenroth (Iona College) Dawn of the Dead (1978): Zombies and Human Nature

Thursday, October 1, 2009- Elizabeth McAlister (Wesleyan Univ.) “Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Secular Messiahs”

Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment.

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ABOUT IN MEDIA RES

In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship.

Each day, a different scholar will curate a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response.

We use the title "curator" because, like a curator in a museum, you are repurposing a media object that already exists and providing context through your commentary, which frames the object in a particular way.

The clip/comment combination are intended to both introduce the curator's work to the larger community of scholars (as well as non-academics who frequent the site) and, hopefully, encourage feedback/discussion from that community.

Theme weeks are designed to generate a networked conversation between curators. All the posts for that week will thematically overlap and the participating curators each agree to comment on one another's work.

Our goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media.

In Media Res provides a forum for more immediate critical engagement with media at a pace closer to how we typically experience media

In Media Res is a publication of MediaCommons. MediaCommons is a strong advocate for the right of media scholars to quote from the materials they analyze, as protected by the principle of "fair use." If such quotation is necessary to a scholar's argument, if the quotation serves to support a scholar's original analysis or pedagogical purpose, and if the quotation does not harm the market value of the original text -- but rather, and on the contrary, enhances it -- we must defend the scholar's right to quote from the media texts under study.

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