The Velvet Light Trap
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SEMIANNUAL · 8 1/2 x 11 · 112 PAGES/ISSUE · ISSN 0149-1830 · E-ISSN 1542-4251
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.
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#81, Spring 2018
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#76, Fall 2015
#75, Spring 2015
#74, Fall 2014
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#34, Fall 1994
#33, Spring 1994
Power, Freedom, and Control in Gaming
- White-Collar Play: Reassessing Managerial Sports Games
- Branden Buehler
- Beyond: Two Souls, Performance Capture, and the Negotiatory Nature of Control
- Gus Cook
- Your Daughter Is in Another Castle: Essential Paternal Masculinity in Video Games
- Shannon Lawlor
- Reaching Toward Home: Software Interface as Queer Orientation in the Video Game Curtain
- Whi...
#80, Fall 2017
Production Cultures
- Putting Penn to Paper: Warner Bros.’ Contract Governance and the Transition to New Hollywood
- Peter Labuza
- Herding Cats; or, The Possibilities of Unproduction Studies
- Peter C. Kunze
- Who's Running the Show? Negotiating Authority in Post-Fin-Syn Writer-Producer Deals
- Josh Heuman
- "Dancing, Flying Camera Jockeys": Invisible Labor, Craft Discourse, and Embodied Steadicam and Panaglide ...
#79, Spring 2017
Serials, Seriality, and Serialization
- Mad Men’s Serially Falling Man
- Mark Sandberg
- In the Nick of Time?: Detective Film Serials, Temporality, and Contingency Management, 1919–1926
- Ruth Mayer
- “That Magic Box Lies”: Queer Theory, Seriality, and American Horror Story
- Theresa L. Geller and Anna Marie Banker
- Girl Reporters and Cyclic Seriality
- Zoë Wallin
- Susp...
#78, Fall 2016
Considering Kids' Media
- Girl Talk and Girl Tech: Computer Talking Dolls and the Sounds of Girls’ Play
- Reem Hilu
- The Children’s Horror Film: Characterizing an “Impossible” Subgenre
- Catherine Lester
- Televisa Born and Raised: Lucerito’s Stardom in 1980s Mexican Media
- Olivia Cosentino
- Building Blocks of the Imagination: Children, Creativity, and the Limits of Disney Infinity
- Meredit...
#77, Spring 2016
Performance and the Body
- Blind Spots and Mind Games: Performance, Motivation, and Emotion in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
- Aaron Taylor
- “Art Porn Provocauteurs”: Queer Feminist
Performances of Embodiment in the Work of Catherine Breillat and Lena Dunham - Maria San Filippo
- Chronic Tomboys: Feminism, Survival, and Paranoia in Jodie Foster’s Body of Work
- Lynne Stahl
- Snakes on the Dance Floor: Bollywood, Gesture, and Gender
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Other past issues include:
#76, Fall 2015
#75, Spring 2015
#74, Fall 2014
#73, Spring 2014
#72, Fall 2013
#71, Spring 2013
#70, Fall 2012
#69, Spring 2012
#68, Fall 2011
#67, Spring 2011
#66, Fall 2010
#65, Spring 2010
#64, Fall 2009
#63, Spring 2009
#62, Fall 2008
#61, Spring 2008
#60, Fall 2007
#59, Spring 2007
#58, Fall 2006
#57, Spring 2006
#56, Fall 2005
#55, Spring 2005
#54, Fall 2004
#53, Spring 2004
#52, Fall 2003
#51, Spring 2003
#50, Fall 2002
#49, Spring 2002
#48, Fall 2001
#47, Spring 2001
#46, Fall 2000
#45, Spring 2000
#44, Fall 1999
#43, Spring 1999
#42, Fall 1998
#41, Spring 1998
#40, Fall 1997
#39, Spring 1997
#38, Fall 1996
#37, Spring 1996
#36, Fall 1995
#35, Spring 1995
#34, Fall 1994
#33, Spring 1994
Submissions:
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.
Call for Papers: The Velvet Light Trap Issue 84 - The 1990s: A Decade of Change
Submission deadline: July 31, 2018 
Submit to: thevelvetlighttrap@gmail.com.
The internet. Blockbuster Video. Broadcast deregulation. New Queer Cinema. The rise of fandom and video game studies. In numerous ways, the 1990s served as an important decade of change for the media and media studies landscape. In industrial terms, the Telecom Act of 1996 helped to drastically change US television ownership rules, while the GATT negotiations of the early 90s helped shape international approaches to film. Technologically, the decade saw the explosive rise of the internet and digital technologies such as CGI, as well as the popularity of a variety of Japanese electronics (the Nintendo Game Boy, the Sony PlayStation and Discman) around the world. In terms of production, the film industry experienced the growth of both smaller-scale movements (Miramax and the mainstreaming of “independent” cinema, New Queer Cinema and the increased visibility of other non-hegemonic groups in film) and larger ones (the blockbuster successes of films such as Titanic and the “Disney renaissance” in animation), while the continued growth and fragmentation of cable channels provided a wider range of potential show types, perspectives, and markets.
These changes continue to shape media production and industries today. While many discuss the nostalgia boom for 1980s popular media and popular culture that continues to manifest itself in works such as Stranger Things and It, the 1990s have likewise been undergoing their own boom. From reboots of 1990s TV staples such as Roseanne and Clarissa Explains It All to TV adaptations of 90s films such as Fargo, and from popular film reboots and reimaginings (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Power Rangers) to the continued popularity of key 90s video game franchises (Pokemon, Tomb Raider), the last decade of the twentieth century continues to exert a strong, growing influence on the contemporary landscape.
As we witness these new perspectives on the 1990s, a decade defined in large part by the array of new perspectives it provided for media authors, audiences, and industries, how can we better understand the impact of this decade on today's media and cultural landscape? Are there key moments or issues from the 1990s that have had an especially prominent legacy? Are there underaddressed areas of research that can shed more light on both the 1990s and their role today? For our upcoming issue, we are looking for scholarship that considers a variety of issues relating to the 1990s as a decade of change. Although an entire decade provides for a broad topic range, potential topics could include (but are by no means limited to):
- The history and legacy of media (de)regulation in the 90s (the Telecom Act of 1996, the end of fin-syn, GATT/NAFTA trade agreements, etc.)
- The rise and legacy of 1990s superhero media
- The rise and legacy of queer media in the 90s
- Changing audiences and audience theorizations in the 90s
- Digital communications in the 90s and the altering of audience dynamics
- Trends in 90s children’s toys and merchandising (Tamagotchi, Furby, Beanie Babies, etc.)
- Domestic and international changes in film exhibition in the 90s
- The rise and popularity of soundtrack albums in the 90s
- Adult animation in the 90s (The Simpsons, South Park, Beavis and Butthead etc.)
- The role of the 24 hour news cycle in the 90s
- The importance of film festivals in the 90s (Sundance, the circulation of international art cinema, etc.)
- Key pop music developments in the 90s (grunge, Britpop, gangsta rap, boy/girl groups, etc.)
- Major 90s international art cinema movements (Iranian, Taiwanese, Dogme 95, etc.)
- The international prominence of star athletes and related media in the 90s (Olympic athletes, commercials, Michael Jordan, Space Jam, etc.)
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be between 6,000– 7,500 words (approximately 20-25 pages double-spaced), formatted in Chicago style. Please submit an electronic copy of the paper, along with a one-page abstract (no more than 100 words), both saved as Microsoft Word files. While images are not required for submissions, if your submission includes images, please ensure that they are high resolution and included as an image file separate from your Word files. Remove any identifying information so that the submission is suitable for anonymous review. The journal’s Editorial Board will referee all submissions. Send electronic manuscripts and/or any questions to thevelvetlighttrap@gmail.com. All submissions are due July 31, 2018.
About the Journal
The Velvet Light Trap is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal of film, television, and new media studies. Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas-Austin coordinate issues in alternation. Our Editorial Advisory Board includes such notable scholars as Hector Amaya, Ben Aslinger, Miranda Banks, Caetlin Benson-Allott, Mark Betz, Michael Curtin, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Dombrowski, Daniel Herbert, Lucas Hilderbrand, Debra Jaramillo, Roberta Pearson, Debra Ramsay, Avi Santo, Jacob Smith, Jonathan Sterne. VLT's graduate student editors are assisted by their local faculty advisors: Mary Beltrán, Ben Brewster, Jonathan Gray, Lea Jacobs, Derek Johnson, Jeremy Morris, Shanti Kumar, Charles Ramírez Berg, Thomas Schatz, and Janet Staiger.
Editorial Office:
Wisconsin Editorial Office
Dept. of Communication Arts
Vilas Hall – Sixth Floor
The University of Wisconsin – Madison
Madison, WI 53706
Austin Editorial Office
Dept. of Radio-Television-Film
2504 Whitis Ave., STOP A0800
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1067
Indexers:
The Velvet Light Trap is indexed in Academic Search Premier, America: History and Life, Communication Abstracts, Contemporary Culture Index, Film Literature Index, Historical Abstracts, Humanities International Complete, IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews), IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), International Index to Film Periodicals, and Sociological Abstracts.
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