Velvet Light Trap articles from March 1991

Velvet Light Trap archives from March 1991

Introduction.
March 22, 1991... AT THE DAWN OF THE 1990S, THE EDITORS decided to devote this issue to the 1980s, though we recognize the historical contingency of marking time this way. While futurists would have us poised on the edge of the twenty-first century, we wonder...

Film history in the 1980s.
March 22, 1991... I THE 1970S IN FILM STUDIES WERE, SELF-consciously, a decade of theory. Successive tidal waves of new ideas swept over the terrain, washing away much of the old familiar landscape. By the end of the 1970s few of the landmarks by which the...

Film, politics, and ideology: reflections on Hollywood film in the Age of Reagan.
March 22, 1991... IN OUR BOOK CAMERA POLITICA: POLITICS and Ideology in Contemporary Hollywood Film, Michael Ryan and I argue that Hollywood film from the 1960s to the present was closely connected with the political movements and struggles of the epoch. Our...

Reading character with a vengeance: the Fatal Attraction phenomenon.
March 22, 1991... SINCE ITS OPENING ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1987, Fatal Attraction (Paramount) has rapidly become one of the most successful films ever. The February 1990 Variety 84th Show Business Annual poll ranked Fatal Attraction 31st in all-time rental revenue. Of...

"After it happened ...:" the battle to present AIDS in television drama.
March 22, 1991... THIS ESSAY CONSTITUTES ONE PART OF A larger project dealing with american network television's representations of people with AIDS and with discourses generated by other social and cultural forces which affect television's discussion of AIDS....

The same old others: the Western, Lonesome Dove, and the lingering difficulty of difference.
March 22, 1991... The Red Indians who have been fortunate enough to secure permanent engagements with the several Western film companies are paid a salary that keeps them well provided with tobacco and their worshipped "firewater".... They put...

Retrospective narratives in Hungarian cinema: the 1980s Diary trilogy of Marta Meszaros.
March 22, 1991... IN THE FORMER EAST BLOC REGIME OF THE gaze, as in other spheres of life, the inscriptions of oppositional thought have operated in highly coded fashion, subjected as they were to the interventions of official censorship. Compelled by close...

Woman teaching women: teaching film to coed classes in the 1980s.
March 22, 1991... WHEN I STUDIED FILM IN YALE'S FIRST COED class in 1969, female students were the exception. And, as an independent filmmaker, I had few female role models. Now that I am an assistant professor, teaching film production at a state university, it...

The 1980s: a reference guide to motion pictures, television, VCR and cable.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 1991... As a supplement to the issue, the editors have compiled this reference section featuring statistical data about the film and television industries in the United States during the 1980s. This compilation provides a broad view of the decade in a...