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VLT is collectively edited by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and The University of Texas at Austin, with the support of media scholars at those institutions and throughout the country. Each issue provokes debate about critical, theoretical, and historical topics relating to a particular theme.
The Velvet Light Trap is indexed and/or abstracted in Communication Abstracts, Film Literature Index, International Index to Film Periodicals, Sociological Abstracts, America: History and Life, and Historical Abstracts.
| Wisconsin Editorial Office |
| Coordinating Editors | Andrea Comiskey, Christopher Cwynar, Kyra Hunting, and Danny Kimball
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| Editors | Andrew Bottomley, Evan Davis, Eric Dienstfrey, Evan Elkins, Lindsay Garrison, Rebecca Genauer, Aaron Granat, Jonah Horwitz, Kit Hughes, Danny Kimball, Myles McNutt, Amanda McQueen, Leo Rubinkowski, Eleanor Seitz, Josh Shepperd, and Booth Wilson |
| Austin Editorial Office | |
| Coordinating Editors | Morgan Blue
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| Editors |
Eliot Chayt, Laura Dixon, Josh Gleich, Amanda Landa, Lokeilani Kaimana, Daniel Mauro, and Paul Monticone.
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| Advisors | Mary Beltrán, Jonathan Gray, Michele Hilmes, Lea Jacobs, Derek Johnson, Michael Kackman, Mary Kearney, Charles Ramírez Berg, Thomas Schatz, and Janet Staiger |
| Editorial Advisory Board |
Richard Allen, Harry Benshoff, Mia Consalvo, David Desser, Radhika Gajjala, Darrell Hamamoto, Joan Hawkins, Barbara Klinger, Jon
Kraszewski, Joe McElhaney, Diane Negra, Michael Newman, Alisa Perren, Yeidy Rivero, Nick Sammond, Beretta Smith-Shomade, Christina Venegas, and Michael Williams
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Call for Papers: #74 - On Sound (New Directions in Sound Studies)
(deadline August 1, 2013)
Submission Guidelines
#70, Fall 2012 – The Materiality of Media
#69, Spring 2012 – Recontextualizing Animation, CGI, and Visual Effects
#68, Fall 2011 – Comedy and Humor
#67, Spring 2011 - Seeing Race: The Enduring Dilemma
#66, Fall 2010 - New Media in the Majority World
#65, Spring 2010 - Celebrity!
#64, Fall 2009 - Failures, Flops, and False Starts
#63, Spring 2009 - Censorship and Regulation
#62, Fall 2008 - Media Spaces and Architectures
#61, Spring 2008 - Remakes and Adaptations
Archives
#70, Fall 2012 – The Materiality of Media
- The Lost Studio of Atlantis: Norman Bel Geddes’s Failed
Revolution in Television Form
- Joshua Gleich
- Materiality and Meaning in Recent Projection
Performance
- Jonathan Walley
- The Warner Archive and DVD Collecting in the New
Home Video Market
- Bradley Schauer
- Executable Images: The Enactment and Distribution of
Movies in Computer Networks
- Gabriel Menotti Gonring
- Dossier: Materiality and the Archive
- Kit Hughes and Heather Heckman
Book Reviews
- Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture by Jeffrey A. Brown
- Reviewed by Chelsea McCracken
- Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema by Allan Cameron
- Reviewed by Matt Connolly
- Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War by Kristin Roth-Ey
- Reviewed by Booth Wilson
- Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates edited by Adrian Johns
- Reviewed by Andrew J. Bottomley
#69, Spring 2012 – Recontextualizing Animation, CGI, and Visual Effects
- Dissecting Bambi: Multiplanar Photography, the Cel Technique, and the Flowering of Full Animation
- Casey Riffel
- On Styles of Theorizing Animation Styles: Stanley Cavell at the Cartoon’s Demise
- Ryan Pierson
- Kung Fu Panda: Animated Animal Bodies as Layered Sites of (Trans)National Identities
- Hye Jean Chung
- Is It Real . . . or Is It Motion Capture? The Battle to Redefine Animation in the Age of Digital Performance
- Yacov Freedman
- An Interview with Geoff Marslett of Swerve Pictures
- The Editors
- An Interview with Bob Sabiston of Flat Black Films
- The Editors
Book Reviews
- The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture by Rob King
- Reviewed by Paul Monticone
- Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood by Mark Garrett Cooper
- Reviewed by Paul Monticone
- Letterboxed: The Evolution of Widescreen Cinema by Harper Cossar
- Reviewed by Eliot Chayt
- Widescreen Worldwide edited by John Belton,
Sheldon Hall, and Steve Neale
- Reviewed by Eliot Chayt
- The New Entrepreneurs: An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers by Jon Kraszewski
- Reviewed by Joshua Gleich
- Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada edited by Thomas Waugh, Michael Brendan Baker, and Ezra Winton
- Reviewed by Laura Dixon
- Hollywood Reborn: Movie Stars of the 1970s edited by James Morrison
- Reviewed by R. Colin Tait
#68, Fall 2011 – Comedy and Humor
- Recombinant Comedy, Transmedial Mobility, and Viral Video
- David Gurney
- “The Missing Link Moment”: Web Comedy in New Media Industries
- Nick Marx
- Laughing Together? TV Comedy Audiences and the Laugh Track
- Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore
- “Have Women a Sense of Humor?” Comedy and Femininity in Early Twentieth-Century Film
- Kristen Anderson Wagner
- Parodying the Nation: Cross-Dressing and Vietnamese American Comedy
- Lan Duong
Book Reviews
- CSI by Derek Kompare
- Reviewed by Myles McNutt
- Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media by Isabel Molina-Guzmán
- Reviewed by Eleanor Seitz
- Jacques Rivette by Douglas Morrey and Alison Smith
- Reviewed by Eric Dienstfrey
- Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Filmby Tamar Jeffers McDonald
- Reviewed by Kyra Hunting
#67, Spring 2011 - Seeing Race: The Enduring Dilemma
- Sincere Fictions: The Production Cultures of Whiteness in Late 1960s Hollywood
- Eithne Quinn
- Alabama Constitutional Reform in Black and White
- Gina Caison
- Black Man/White Machine: Will Smith Crosses Over
- Lorrie Palmer
- Beyond Tokenism and Tricksterism: Bobby Lee, MADtv, and the De(con)structive Impulse of Korean American Comedy
- David Scott Diffrient
- Revisiting Sunday Morning Apartheid: The Politics of Of Color Blindness and Racial Formation in the Harry Reid Controversy
- Doug E. Julien
- The Racial Politics of Disaster and Dystopia in I Am Legend
- Sean Brayton
Book Reviews
#66, Fall 2010 - New Media in the Majority World
- Hard Questions: Public Goods and the Political Economy of the New Palestinian Televisual Public Sphere
- Matt Seinkiewicz
- Video Games for the "Next Billion": The Launch of the Zeebo Console
- Ben Aslinger
- Auto-Motivations: Digital Cinema and Kiarostami's Relational Aesthetics
- Scott Krzych
- Korean TV Serials in the English-Language Diaspora: Translating Difference Online and Making It Racial
- Brian Hu
- The New Navajo Cinema: Cinema and Nation in the Indigenous Southwest
- Randolph Lewis
Book Reviews
#65, Spring 2010 - Celebrity!
- Reclaiming the Freak: Michael Jackson and the Spectacle of Identity
- Racquel J. Gates
- Hannah Montana's Bare, Unprotected Back: Miley Cyrus's Vanity Fair Outing
- James Kincaid
- Stardom, Celebrity, and the Money Form
- Barry King
- Underexposed Overexposure: One Night in Paris
- Minette Hillyer
- Slumdog Celebrities
- Priya Jaikumar
- Star Testing: The Emerging Politics of Celebrity Gossip
- Julie A. Wilson
- Toxic: The Implosion of Britney Spears's Star Image
- Moya Luckett
- Tom Cruise, the "Couch Incident," and the Limits of Public Elation
- Michael DeAngelis
- Populist Celebrity in the Election Campaigns of Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger
- A. Freya Thimsen
- Dragging Oscar
- Fernando Delgado
- Brangelina: The Fertile Valley of Celebrity
- Diane Negra
- Death on Display: Reifying Stardom through Hollywood's Dark Tourism
- Linda Levitt
- Rihanna's Closed Eyes
- Sarah Projansky
- Dreaming a Dream: Susan Boyle and Celebrity Culture
- Su Holmes
- The Pregnant Man
- Judith Halberstam
Book Reviews
#64, Fall 2009 - Failures, Flops, and False Starts
- Claiming the Found: Archive Footage and Documentary Practice
- (preface by Vance Kepley, Jr.)
- Hollywood Party, Jimmy Durante, and the Cultural Politics of Coherence
- Allen Larson
- A Virtual Failure: Evaluating the Success of Nintendo's Virtual Boy
- Steven Boyer
- Convergent Consortia: Format Battles in High Definition
- Bryan Sebok
- StarCraft Fan Craft: Game Mods, Ownership, and Totally Incomplete Conversions
- Derek Johnson
- Public Service Broadcasting and the Failure of Political Representation
- Kyle Conway
- Dossier: Perspectives on Failure
- The Editors
#63, Spring 2009 - Censorship and Regulation
- Media Effects and the Subjectification of Film Regulation
- Theresa Cronin
- The Hindu Right and the Politics of Censorship: Three Case Studies of Policing Hindi Cinema, 1992-2002
- Nandana Bose
- Exemplary Consumer-Citizens and Protective State Stewards: How Reformers Shaped Censorship Outcomes Regarding The Untouchables
- Laura Cook Kenna
- Slashings and Subtitles: Romanian Media Piracy, Censorship, and Translation
- Tessa Dwyer and Ioana Uricaru
- Censorship, Regulation, and Media Policy in the Twenty-First Century: A Roundtable on Critical Approaches
- The Editors
Book Reviews
#62, Fall 2008 - Media Spaces and Architectures
- Film in Air: Airspace, In-Flight Entertainment, and NonTheatrical Distribution
- Stephen Groening
- Your Favorite Stars, Live On Our Screens: Media Culture, Queer Publics, and Commercial Space
- Hollis Griffin
- In the Flesh: Space and Embodiment in the Pornographic Peep Show Arcade
- Amy Herzog
- Photo Essay: Urban Iconography and the Technological Grotesque
- Anna McCarthy
- The Good Side of the Ghetto: Visualizing Black Brooklyn 1968–1971
- Devorah Heitner
- Dossier: Media Space in Perspective
- The Editors
- An Interview with Emily Thompson
- Nick Marx and Danny Kimball
#61, Spring 2008 - Remakes and Adaptations
- "Beam Me up, Omer": Transnational Media Flow and the Cultural Politics of the Turkish Star Trek Remake
- Iain Robert Smith
- Remaking and the Film Trilogy: Whit Stillman's Authorial Triptych
- Claire Perkins
- Somewhere in Time: Utopia and the Return of Superman
- Matt Yockey
- The Concessions of Nat Turner
- by Christopher Sieving
- An Interview with Richard Linklater
VLT Archives
Submission Guidelines
The Velvet Light Trap is a journal devoted to investigating historical questions that illuminate the understanding of film, television, and other media. It publishes articles and interviews written with the highest scholarly standards yet accessible to a broad range of readers. The journal draws on a variety of theoretical and historiographic approaches from the humanities and social sciences. The journal welcomes any effort that will help foster the ongoing processes of evaluation and negotiation in media history and criticism. While the Velvet Light Trap maintains its traditional commitment to the study of American film, it also expands its scope to television and other media, to adjacent institutions, and to other nations' media. The journal encourages both approaches and objects of study that have been neglected or excluded in past scholarship.
The Velvet Light Trap issues calls for papers based on specific themes. Submission requirements may vary from one call to another, and submissions must be sent to the university issuing the call. The format should follow the sixteenth edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. The entire essay, including block quotations and notes, should be double spaced. Quotations not in English should be accompanied by translations. Photocopies of illustrations are sufficient for initial review, but authors should be prepared to supply camera-ready photographs on request. Illustrations will be sized by the publisher. Permissions are the responsibility of the author.
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