Velvet Light Trap articles

Recent articles from Velvet Light Trap

Introduction.(THE EDITORS)(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... In a summer box office that touts adaptation, remake, and serial texts such as Shrek the Third, Live Free or Die Hard, Spiderman 3, The Bourne Ultimatum, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Rush Hour 3, Transformers, Halloween, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, The Simpsons...

"Beam me up, Omer": transnational media flow and the cultural politics of the Turkish Star Trek remake.(G.O.R.A.)(Critical essay)(Cover story)
March 22, 2008... While subjected peoples cannot readily control what emanates from the dominant culture, they do determine to varying extents what they absorb into their own, and what they use it for. --Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation In the recent Turkish sci-fi...

Remaking and the film trilogy: Whit Stillman's authorial triptych.
March 22, 2008... The trailer for the 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival features a scruffy, bespectacled teenager sandwiched between two suited Hollywood executive types in the back of a limousine. As the car moves through a neon-lit streetscape, the execs use a nonquestion initially directed at the...

Somewhere in time: utopia and the Return of Superman.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Superman is one of the most durable icons of American popular culture, evidenced most recently by the release of Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, 2006). The success of Superman texts depends in large part upon their ability to appeal to audience familiarity with the Man of Steel, a paragon of...

The concessions of Nat Turner.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... Perhaps the reader will wish to draw a moral from this narrative, but it has been my own intention to try to re-create a man and his era, and to produce a work that is less an "historical novel" in conventional terms than a meditation on history. --William Styron, The Confessions of Nat...