This week’s In Media Res theme focus is Nonfiction vs. Reality TV (April 1 - April 5, 2013).

 

Here's the line-up:

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Monday, April 1, 2013 - David Cooper Moore (Temple University) presents: Teaching Documentary in a Reality TV Environment: Taxonomies of Production versus Taxonomies of Texts

 

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - Alan Pike (Emory University) presents: Unlock the Gates: Genre and Rhetoric in MSNBC’s "Lockup"

 

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - Evan L. Kropp (University of Georgia) presents: Blurred Boundaries: Approaches to Defining Documentaries and Reality Television

 

Thursday, April 4, 2013 - Jeffrey David Greene (Southern Polytechnic State University) presents: Tell Me a Story and Make It True: Applied Narrative in Reality Television

 

Friday, April 5, 2013 - Kate Morgan (UT Arlington) presents: TBD

 

 

Theme week organized by Laurel Ahnert (Georgia State University).

 

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The In Media Res Team