Velvet Light Trap articles from March 1993

Velvet Light Trap archives from March 1993

War, Media, Politics, Violence.(introduces a collection of essays examining war, media, politics and violence in mass media)
March 22, 1993... AMID THE AFTERSHOCKS OF THE PERSIAN Gulf War, the Velvet Light Trap sent out a call for papers addressing several concerns that emerged from that globally mediated political crisis. By soliciting work under the rubric of "War, Media, Politics,...

Instant history--image history: lessons of the Persian Gulf War (1).
March 22, 1993... THE YEARS 1991-92 MARKED A SEA-CHANGE in cultural history making. First there was the world-class spectacular in the Persian Gulf. Six months later the Soviet coup collapsed in a blizzard of riveting imagery. There were the Anita Hill--Clarence...

Howard Hughes' "authoritarian fictions": RKO, One Minute to Zero, and the Cold War.
March 22, 1993... ON JUNE 25, 1950, THE COMMUNIST NORTH Korean army crossed the thirty-eighth parallel and invaded South Korea; two days later the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution sanctioning U.N. and U.S. intervention (thanks to the absence...

Therapeutic narrative: The Wild Bunch, Jaws, and Vietnam.
March 22, 1993... IN 1968, BY WHICH TIME THE AMERICAN MILitary presence in Vietnam had expanded to over 500,000 troops, the only major Hollywood film depicting combat in Vietnam during the period of actual hostilities was released. Although John Wayne's The...

For fighting and for fun: Kubrick's complicitous critique in Full Metal Jacket.(filmmaker Stanley Kubrick)
March 22, 1993... Americans are prisoners of their own mythology, having watched too many of their own movies. If they ever want to send Americans to the gas chambers, they won't tell us we're going to take showers, they'll herd us into...

Managing the medium: the Navy and motion pictures before World War I.
March 22, 1993... IN RECENT YEARS, HISTORIANS OF AMERIcan cinema have devoted increasing attention to early film history, examining the particular qualities of the medium prior to the many watersheds of the mid-teens: the establishment of the studio and star...

Encounter with a young man: outline for an outline.
March 22, 1993... NOTE: I DID NOT INTEND TO WRITE THIS story in chronological order For the outline it seemed the most practical way. Where did it all start? How does one find the roots of an idea that will grow into a decision and ultimately determine one's...

Men, Women and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film.
March 22, 1993... by Carol Clover IN HER 1987 ESSAY "HER BODY, HIMSELF" (REPRESENTATIONS 20 [1987]), Carol Clover launched a fascinating inquiry into the much ignored low-budget slasher film. A version of this article now appears as a chapter in her new...

Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s.
March 22, 1993... by Donald Kirihara DONALD KIRIHARA'S RECENT NEOFORMALIST analysis, Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s, is an important addition not only to the study of Japanese cinema but also to the ongoing examination of the relation between a...

Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found.
March 22, 1993... by G. William Jones IN RECENT YEARS FILM HISTORIANS HAVE DEVOTED renewed energy to the study of the black-produced and black-cast films produced outside of Hollywood from the teens to the fifties. While there are of course political and...