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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The Politics of Space and Place
- "Not Very Attractive": How the Interstate Highway System Reconfigured Cinematic Space and Made the Rural Horrifying
- John Paul Taylor
- "Good Oriental Setting": Negotiating San Francisco Locations for The Killer Elite
- Joshua Gleich
- WGPR...
#82, Fall 2018
Media Dialogues
- Quality You Can't Touch: Mubi Social, Platform Politics, and the Online Distribution of Art Cinema
- Jennifer Hessler
- An "Exquisite Filmic Haze": The Complicated Politics of Reportedness in Zero Dark Thirty
- Grace Foster
- Meme Girls versus Trump: Digitally Recycled Screen Dialogue as Political Discourse
- Jennifer O'Meara
- Media Dialogues: A Scholarly Roundtable, mod...
#81, Spring 2018
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
#77, Spring 2016
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 86 - Queerness in the Digital Age
Submission deadline: July 31, 2019 
Submit to: velvetlighttrap.austin@gmail.com.
Submission Guidelines
Digital technology has altered all aspects of media cultures, including questions of identity that can affect everything from the production of texts, their content, their distribution, their reception, and more. At the same time, popular and academic understandings of queerness have evolved to incorporate expanding ideas of gender, sexuality, race, disability, ethnicity, and other identity categories. Not only has digital technology altered the ways in which queerness can be articulated, but queer media has also shaped the form and reception of digital texts. Understanding queerness in the digital age requires us to account for the changes in both queer studies and digital studies.
For this issue, we welcome submissions that examine the ways in which queerness and digital media interact. These articles could include, but are not limited to, placing media texts in a broader cultural context that speaks to the nature of queerness in the digital age, contextualizing the relationship between queer audiences and media texts, or analyzing queer digital production cultures. Submissions could also consider queerness from the perspective of platformization, fandoms and audience reception, as well as digital media ecologies. What is the impact of social media on queer practices and identities? How does the rising visibility of queer identities leave queers, especially queers of color, vulnerable to exploitation or attack? How do queer creators utilize and navigate ever-changing media ecosystem? We invite submissions that investigate these or other questions related to queerness in the digital age through any applicable methodological or theoretical approaches.
- The evolution of queer theory and its application to media (e.g. queer of color critique, trans theory, crip theory)
- Queerness, race and ethnicity (e.g. Afrofuturism, disidentification, queer indigenous studies)
- Digital technology, queer bodies, and disability
- Changing receptions in queer audiences and queer-targeted media
- Queer modes of fandom
- Creators, star texts, and micro-celebrities
- Digital pornography studies
- Articulations of queerness in digital television (e.g. streaming platforms, webseries, second-screen engagement)
- Queerness in digital games
- The democratization of digital cinema (or lack thereof)
- Queer comix, webcomics, and digital distribution
- Non-fiction media aesthetics and portrayals of queerness
- Queer podcast networks, series, and hosts
- Social Media, Online Communities, and Dating Apps (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Patreon, Tumblr, Her,Grindr, Scruff, OnlyFans)
- Queer youth and the disruption of the coming out narrative
- Assimilation and respectability politics (e.g. Neoliberalism, homonormativity, homonationalism)
- Queer music production, distribution, and algorithmic discovery
- Modes of queer exhibition (e.g. film festivals, museums and galleries, community spaces)
- Reflections on what “queer” or “queer studies” might mean or signify in the digital age
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 by July 31, 2019
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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