Velvet Light Trap articles from March 1995

Velvet Light Trap archives from March 1995

Introduction.
March 22, 1995... SEPTEMBER 1994. OVER THE LAST FEW months, the subject of how popular culture and popular memory make history--or histories--has ceased to be (if it ever was) purely academic. Consider these recent events: * Twenty-five years later,...

"Both kinds of arms": remembering the Civil War.
March 22, 1995... The past is not even past.--William Faulkner IF YOU'RE EVER DRIVING THROUGH TENNESSEE near Lookout Mountain, don't miss CONFEDERAMA. Its "three-dimensional, 480-square-foot reproduction of historic terrain-the world's largest historic...

Marginal marginalia: the African-American voice in the nouvelle gangster film.
March 22, 1995... The aim is to alter the imagistic menu and diet of American culture. To tie into the politics of cultural consumption as a black photographer, or filmmaker, in America is to change the joke and slip the yoke of white desire. ...

"L'affaire Praslin" and All This, and Heaven Too: gender, genre, and history in the 1940s woman's film.
March 22, 1995... ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 17, 1847, THE forty-year-old Duchesse de Praslin, wife to the Duc de Choiseul-Praslin and mother to their nine children, was found brutally murdered in her bedchamber at 55 rue Faubourg Saint-Honore, Paris. Seven days...

International conspiracy in and around The Iron Curtain.
March 22, 1995... MOTION PICTURES HAVE BEEN A MAJOR U.S. export for over seventy-five years. Cultural artifacts are not merely a trade good, however; they also, in a complex way, refract ideas and values. In this article, I explore some aspects of the cultural...

Citizens of the empire: revisionist history and the social imaginary in Gandhi.
March 22, 1995... RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH'S FILM GANDHI, produced in 1982, deals with a narrative that is familiar to many Indians and no doubt to many others as well: the struggle for independence against British imperialism in India. The fact that a Britisher...

"Tell the story of my life ...": the making of meaning, "monsters," and music in John Greyson's Zero Patience.
March 22, 1995... Realism doesn't deliver that much happiness in this world, so why not just abandon it when possible?--John Greyson (1) WITH THESE WORDS, JOHN GREYSON SUMS up his uniquely irreverent approach to making politically engaged art in the...

Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body.
March 22, 1995... by Peter Lehman THE RIPPLED, MUSCULAR TORSOS OF MEN are finding their way onto academic book jackets faster than you can say "Claude Van Damme" in hunky monosyllables. Under the various and often quite distinct agendas of gay studies,...

Couching Resistance: Women, Film and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry.
March 22, 1995... by Janet Walker ALTHOUGH FEMINIST FILM SCHOLARSHIP has been heavily predicated on a number of psychoanalytic-inflected models since the early 1970s, little work has been done to historicize the relationship between institutional...