Welcome to a special Guilty Pleasures-themed week from In Media Res. All the contributions this week address this concept through texts that we, as scholars, are often conflicted to admit we enjoy watching. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments.

This week’s In Media Res line-up:

Monday, February 18, 2008 – Dan Leopard (St. Mary’s College) presents: “Carl Sagan’s Contact”

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 – Barbara Selznick (University of Arizona) presents: “Mothers and Daughters: Watching The Gilmore Girls”

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 – Michael Z. Newman (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) presents: “Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s ‘Wait (The Whisper Song)’”

Thursday, February 21, 2008 – Sarah Kremen-Hicks (Independent Scholar) presents: “A Demonic Ménage à Trois: Audience Participation and Bedroom Politics in Hex”

Friday, February 22, 2008 – Jeremy Butler (University of Alabama) presents: “Guts Don’t Come Cheap in the Cinématheque, Pal: Guilt, Pleasure, and America’s Funniest Home Videos”

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

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