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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 | Germaine Halegoua, Heather Heckman, Josh David Jackson, and Mark Minett |
| Editors | Colin Burnett, Andrea Comiskey, Jessica Havens, Derek Johnson, Danny Kimball, Nick Marx, Amanda McQueen, David Resha, Josh Shepperd, Matt Sienkiewicz |
| Austin Editorial Office | |
| Coordinating Editors | Courtney Brannon, Curran Nault, Kevin Sanson, Andy Scahill, Lisa Schmidt, and Kristen Warner |
| Advisors | Mary Beltrán, Benjamin Brewster, Michael Curtin, Michele Hilmes, Lea Jacobs, Michael Kackman, Mary Kearney, Charles Ramírez Berg, Thomas Schatz, Janet Staiger, and Sandy Stone
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| Editorial Advisory Board |
Charlie Keil, Dan Marcus, David Desser, David Foster, Michele Malach, Joe McElhaney, Bambi Haggins, Jason Mittell, Malcolm Turvey, Nina Martin, James Morrison, Karla Oeler, Tara McPherson, Steve Neale, Aswin Punathambekar, Peter Bloom, Sean Griffin, Michael Williams
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Call for Papers: #67 - Seeing Race: Our Enduring Dilemma (deadline January 30, 2010)
Submission Guidelines
#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
#60, Fall 2007 - Documentary Now
#59, Spring 2007 - Pornography
#58, Fall 2006 - Narrative & Storytelling
#57, Spring 2006 - Authorship
Archives
#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>/dt>
- 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
#60, Fall 2007 - Documentary Now
- Q&A: Poetics of the Documentary Film Interview
- Leger Grindon
- Contemporary Documentary Film and "Archive Fever": History, the Fragment, the Joke
- Jaimie Baron
- Documentary Stories for Change: Viewing and Producing Immigrant Narratives as Social Documents
- Alicia Kemmitt
- "Gangs Gone Wild": Low-Budget Gang Documentaries and the Aesthetics of Exploitation
- Colin Gunckel
- Familial Pursuits, Editorial Acts: Documentaries after the Age of Home Video
- Marsha Orgeron and Devin Orgeron
- Comedy Verité? The Observational Documentary Meets the Televisual Sitcom
- Ethan Thompson
- Darfur Diaries: An Interview with Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro
- Matt Sienkiewicz and Rachel Bicicchi
- Dossier: The Role of Documentary in the Contemporary American Political Scene
- edited by Dave Resha, Mark Minett, Charlie Michael, and Colin Burnett
Book Reviews
#59, Spring 2007 - Pornography
- Prurient Pictures and Popular Film: The Crisis of Pornographic Representation
- Catherine Zuromskis
- Sound and Performance in Stephen Sayadian's Night Dreams and Café Flesh
- Jacob Smith
- Porn Star as Brand: Pornification and the Intermedia Career of Rakel Liekki
- Kaarina Nikunen and Susanna Paasonen
- Hard-core Shopping: Educating Consumption in SIR Video Production's Lesbian Porn
- Ragan Rhyne
- What Soft-core Can Do for Porn Studies
- David Andrews
- An Interview with Peter Lehman and Linda Williams
Book Reviews
#58, Fall 2006 - Narrative & Storytelling
- Emotional Curves and Linear Narratives
- Patrick Keating
- From Beats to Arcs: Toward a Poetics of Television Narrative
- Michael Z. Newman
- Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television
- Jason Mittell
- Narration in the Cinema of Digital Sound
- Mark Kerins
- Narrative Structure in The Sixth Sense: A New Twist in "Twist Movies"?
- Erlend Lavik
- Contingency, Order, and the Modular Narrative: 21 Grams and Irreversible
- Allan Cameron
Book Reviews
#57, Spring 2006 - Authorship
- The Cinema of Affections: The Transformation of Authorship in British Cinema before 1907
- Joe Kember
- Studio Authorship, Warner Bros., and The Fountainhead
- Jerome Christensen
- "Some Kind of a Man": Orson Welles as Touch of Evil's Masculine Auteur
- Brooke Rollins
- A Point of Little Hope: Hippie Horror Films and the Politics of Ambivalence
- Matt Becker
- Marketing David Mamet: Institutionally Assigned Film Authorship in Contemporary American Cinema
- Yannis Tzioumakis
- Exorcizing/Exercising Treachery: Robust Subjectivity in Lourdes Portillo's The Devil Never Sleeps
- Mónica F. Torres
- Technology in Search of an Artist: Questions of Auteurism/Authorship and the Contemporary Cinematic Experience
- Anna Notaro
Book Reviews
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. Send three copies to the university issuing the call. Essays not suitable for issues in preparation at one university will be forwarded to the other for consideration. Submissions should be printed in letter-quality type. The format should follow the 1985 edition of the MLA Style Manual. 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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