Velvet Light Trap articles from March 1997

Velvet Light Trap archives from March 1997

Introduction.(celebrities in mass media)
March 22, 1997... Just how exactly did Virginia Rappe die in Fatty Arbuckle's apartment on that fateful night in 1921? Did Katharine Hepburn have a lesbian relationship with Jane Loring, film editor of Alice Adams? Here Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance good...

Masquerades of massacre: gender, genre, and the Gulf War TV star system.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1997... "Thank you Gerald McRaney. If only Murphy Brown could meet Major Dad--what a story!" --Marilyn Quayle, after being introduced by Gerald McRaney at the 1992 Republican National Convention The "Life" section of the 18 April 1991 USA...

Masculinity in translation: Jackie Chan's transcultural star text.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1997... Prologue: Genre and Masculinity For nearly two decades, action film has been one of Hollywood's principal money-making genres. Largely geared toward a young male audience, action film places at its center the now-conventional "action...

Trying hard to hear you: Jean Arthur and the problematics of presence.
March 22, 1997... It suffices that the cinema capture the sounds of speech close up... and make us hear in their materiality, their sensuality, the breath, the gutturals, the fleshiness of the lips, a whole presence of the human muzzle... to succeed in...

White and black in black and white: management of race and sexuality in the coupling of child-star Shirley Temple and Bill Robinson.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1997... Shortly after her 1934 entry into feature films, Shirley Temple became a top box-office draw and maintained that status through 1938. Films in which she appeared brought in more money than those of"contemporaries" Clark Gable, Astaire and...

"Another being we have created called `us'": point of view, melancholia, and the joking unconscious in 'The Bridges of Madison County'.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1997... Having heard nothing but bad things about Robert James Waller's lachrymose novel, The Bridges of Madison County, I went to see Clint Eastwood's film adaptation expecting my sole spectatorial pleasures to come from its ineptitude. (1) Much to my...

Pop Out: Queer Warhol.
March 22, 1997... Pop Out: Queer Warhol edited by Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, and Jose Esteban Munoz Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture, and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema by Juan A. Suarez The fact...

Negotiating Hollywood: The Cultural Politics of Actors' Labor.
March 22, 1997... By Danae Clark Some of the most important "star studies" to date have been published in 1995 and 1996: S. Paige Baty's American Monroe: The Making of a Body Politic, Ramona Curry's Too, Much of a Good Thing: Mae West as a Cultural Icon,...

Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression.
March 22, 1997... By Jack Sargeant We violate the command and law that we bore audiences to death in rituals of circumlocution and propose to break all the taboos of our age by sinning as much as possible. There will be blood, shame, pain and...

Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film.
March 22, 1997... Edited and with an introduction by Linda Williams In the introduction to Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film, Linda Williams situates the nine essays that comprise the volume as working toward a reconception of what she labels "gaze...