Velvet Light Trap articles from March 1990

Velvet Light Trap archives from March 1990

Introduction.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 22, 1990... MANY FILM SCHOLARS ARE FOCUSING ON the ways audiences and individuals use and understand motion pictures. One key to achieving this goal is to couple traditional methods of textual and industrial analysis with a new emphasis on the exhibition...

Thinking about motion picture exhibition.
March 22, 1990... IN 1977 A FRIEND OF MINE ASKED ME IF I WERE interested in driving down to Chicago to see some old movie theaters. She knew I was interested in film history. I said, "Sure," and off to the Uptown theater we sped. I can remember our arrival...

Situating motion pictures in the prenickelodeon period: Lexington, Kentucky, 1897-1906.
March 22, 1990... THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FILM IS MORE than a story of great artists and canny entrepreneurs, technological inventions, industrial practices, and aesthetic/formal uses of the medium. It is also the cultural history of film in America--how and...

From elephants to Lux Soap: the programming and "flow" of early motion picture exploitation.
March 22, 1990... MOTION-PICTURE HISTORIANS ARE WELL aware that from around 1915 to 1920 national brand-name advertisers discovered the "halo effect" produced by linking such consumer products as soap and automobiles with the names and likenesses of Clara Bow,...

Film space/audience space: notes toward a theory of spectatorship.
March 22, 1990... TEXT-CENTERED APPROACHES TO FILM study have recently been challenged by a growing interest in the conditions of film reception. The authority of a text's "production" is giving way to an awareness of the variety of its appropriations in...

Female spectatorship and women's magazines: Hollywood, Good Housekeeping, and World War II.
March 22, 1990... THEORISTS OF FILM RECEPTION HAVE GRADUALLY widened their investigation of the influences that shape audiences' interpretations of films. Early studies considered how the physical circumstances of film exhibition, and formal elements such as...

"Controversy has probably destroyed forever the context": The Miracle and movie censorship in America in the fifties.
March 22, 1990... ON DECEMBER 12, 1950, A TRILOGY OF FOREIGN movies entitled Ways of Love opened at the Paris Theatre in New York City. The trilogy contained Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country, Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle, and Marcel Pagnol's Jofroi. The...

The literature of film exhibition: a bibliography: individual theaters, architecture and design, audiences, technical aspects, regional exhibition, alternative exhibition, technologies, journals and yearbooks, miscellany, biography, theater management, commerce, legal aspects, silent film accompaniment, and drive-ins.(Bibliography)
March 22, 1990... IN AN EFFORT TO FACILITATE FURTHER RESEARCH on the history of film exhibition, the editors have compiled a bibliography of literature relevant to this topic. Although the following does not pretend to be a complete listing, we have tried to be...