This week’s In Media Res special theme week focuses on Film Festivals, with contributions from FFRN members. Please visit the IMR site and enter the conversation in the comments section.
Here’s the line-up:
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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