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Shane  Meadows day event, University of East Anglia, April 2010 (date and venue TBC)

Since  the  attention-grabbing  short  film  Smalltime  (1996)  and his  debut
feature  TwentyFourSeven (1997),  director  Shane  Meadows  has  emerged
as  arguably    the  most  distinctive  young  filmmaker  in  contemporary
British  cinema.  Following  the  critical  and  commercial  success  of  This  is

"You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson shouted during President Barack Obama's speech on health care
reform in the halls of Congress. Media pundits were quick to point out that the 19th
century was the last occasion of such an egregious breach of protocol took place in
Congress. Members of both Houses urged the Republican congressman from South Carolina to
apologize for his misconduct--and he did. Soon after, though, the discourse shifted to
the reasons for Wilson's outburst. The factor of

I (Kim Akass) would like to draw your attention to a new TV Reflection just posted.  We are lucky
enough to have a contribution by Barbara Villez who is professor of legal language and
culture at the Universit de Paris 8.  She provides a fascinating study of the French
made-for-TV film Rendez-moi Justice (Maha Productions 2007), as one of the more
successful examples of hybrid drama-documentary making, and poses the question -