The next meeting of the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies 2014-2015 series will take place on Friday, October 3rd, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Rosenwald Room (LJ 205), 2nd floor, Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. Dr. Greg Metcalf will deliver a talk entitled “How Television Came To Be Novels.” His talk will examine how American television developed the way it did and will discuss how new media forms led to new narrative models, with brief wanderings into serial literature, graphic novels and concept albums.
Greg Metcalf is in his second decade of teaching Film and Twentieth Century Art for the Department of Art History and Archeology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has a B.A. in Art/East Asian Studies/Political Science (St. Olaf), an MFA inPainting and Graphics (Bowling Green) and a Ph.D. in Art and Culture (UMCP). His talk is drawn from his recently published book, The DVD Novel: How The Way We Watch Television Changed the Television that examines the evolution and implications of long form American television. Please join us for Professor Metcalf’s talk and for dinner afterwards.
The Jefferson Building is located between First and Second Streets, SE in the District of Columbia. Nearest metro stops are Capitol South (blue and orange lines) and Union Station (red line).
For further information, consult the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies website at http://wagpcs.wordpress.com/.
For their encouragement and support, the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies would like to thank Mark Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections at the Library of Congress, and John Y. Cole, director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
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