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Clute and Edwards are excited to announce TCM Presents The Master of Suspense: 50 Years of Hitchcock, the third free, flexible, and fun online experience from Turner Classic Movies and Ball State University. Dr. Richard L. Edwards will lead you on an unforgettable exploration into the films of Alfred Hitchcock, reflecting on his unparalleled 50-year career as one of cinema’s most successful and unique filmmakers. Join us for this interactive experience from June 26 - August 7 and enjoy multimedia materials including interviews with film experts and industry talent, daily course messages with movie clips and conversation starters and ongoing interations with your fellow film fans on the TCM message boards or on Twitter at #Hitchcock50. Plus, test your film knowledge of the Master of Suspense with our new mini-games! Find out more at http://hitchcock50.tcm.com/ or https://www.canvas.net/browse/bsu/tcm3/courses/hitchcock50 Clute and Edwards are proud to announce Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir, a free multimedia online course open to learners worldwide and sure to satisfy fans of the noircast.net podcasts. Enrollment is open until July 19, 2015. Join now at the link above. While it has been three years since the last episode of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir, Clute and Edwards continue to work on innovative noir projects.  Their latest efforts have resulted in a collaboration between Turner Classic Movies (TCM), where Clute now serves as head of Marketing and Editorial, and Ball State University, where Edwards is Executive Director of iLearn Research.  In conjunction with “Summer of Darkness,” a two-month programming initiative featuring 24 hours of film noir every Friday in June and July, 2015, TCM will not only market Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir, but will also involve its world-class fans and social engagers in course participation and special content creation.  Ball State University will produce best-in-class materials for the course, including lecture videos rich in film clips, as well as innovative short form social content, special video annotation tools and more.  Edwards is featured in the course videos and serves as course instructor, and the experience culminates with a live video conference featuring Edwards and the TCM on-air host of “Summer of Darkness” Eddie Muller, known to noir fans as the Founder and President of the Film Noir Foundation and author of such iconic books as Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. Click here to view the videoWhile many scholars have focused on noir as a dark visual style, or a worldview marked by the anxieties and stark realities of modernity, few have addressed noir's high degree of self-consciousness or its profoundly quirky humor. In their new book, The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism, Clute and Edwards focus on these underappreciated characteristics of noir to demonstrate how films noir frame their "intertextual" borrowings from on another and create visual puns, and how these gestures function to generate both compelling narratives and critical reflections upon those narratives.Drawing on the on the concept of "constraint" articulated by the Oulipo (a French acronym for "Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle," or "Workshop of Potential Literature"), Clute and Edwards demonstrate that noir was among the most constrained of film styles, and the constraints noir embraced gave rise to its infinite variability and unprecedented self-reflexivity—the very characteristics that have often forced scholars to bracket off noir, framing it as an exception to the otherwise tidy world of studio-era American cinema.  Dartmouth College Press (University Press of New England) has released Clute and Edwards' new study of film noir, The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism. This exciting book builds on crucial insights from the Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir podcasts, and draws on the work of the experimental literary group Oulipo (an acronym for "Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle," or "Workshop of Potential Literature") to investigate the extreme self-consciousness and high degree of visual punning exhibited by noir. In the process, the book proposes—and serves as a sustained demonstration of—an OuFiNoPo, or Workshop of Potential Film Noir. Part thinking-man’s fan crush, part crazily inspired remix of the most beloved of film genres, this study will help scholars and film fans alike to view film noir afresh, and achieve new insights into even the best known movies. See the full press release from Dartmouth College Press here.  Australian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast 10 episodes of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir on its weekly series entitled Top of the Pods, advertised by ABC as: "some of the best audio to be found in the podcast universe...On Top of the Pods you can try everything and there will always be something to grab you by the ears and engage your cerebellum. Don’t trawl through trash—listen to the Top of the Pods." We greatly enjoyed knowing that our podcast aired across Australia on one of its main radio outlets. We received wonderful feedback from Australian listeners. Thanks to ABC and all the Aussie fans of noir.We also loved the creative titles of the episodes we appeared in (often involving podcasts on the brain!), and we frequently were grouped with content produced by the BBC Radio.

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