Velvet Light Trap articles from March 2002

Velvet Light Trap archives from March 2002

Introduction.
March 22, 2002... Our faces belong to our bodies. --The New Our Bodies, Ourselves Beauty is only skin deep. --Anonymous When one begins to contemplate issues associated with the concepts of "beauty" and "the body," one thing quickly becomes...

From elegance to extravaganza: the Supremes on The Ed Sullivan Show as a presentation of beauty.
March 22, 2002... It was December 27, 1964--I was ten years old--when I tuned in to watch The Ed Sullivan Show... and it was a moment that changed my life.... When I saw the Supremes on TV that night, it was magical to me because I had never seen black women on...

Buying John Malkovich: queering and consuming millennial masculinity.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... JM: Did you call me Lotte? Maxine: Do you mind? JM: No, not really. --Being John Malkovich (1999) This essay's main title, "Buying John Malkovich," is borrowed from an article in the August 2000 issue of Inc. magazine about...

Interview with Thomas Waugh.(Interview)
March 22, 2002... VLT: How did you come to be interested in the field of beauty and body representation research? How do you feel this field intersects with your own work? TW: I came to beauty and body representation research, whatever that is, in the late...

Interview with Yvonne Tasker.(Interview)
March 22, 2002... VLT: How did you come to be interested in the field of beauty and body representation research? How do you feel this field intersects with your own work? YT: I became interested in representations of the body through exploration of broader...

Dancer from the dance: Gene Kelly, television, and the beauty of movement.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... By 1958, the year in which Gene Kelly directed the television program "Dancing: A Man's Game," both the film industry and Kelly's career had undergone significant changes. With the pinnacle of his career in the MGM musical behind him, a good...

A real lack of costumes: some thoughts on the unclothed figure in the films of Peter Greenaway.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Few filmmakers working today produce work as easily recognizable as that of the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway. From his earliest professional career, making short films for the Central Office of Information in England, through to his latest...

Beauty and the body in film, television, and popular culture: a bibliography.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2002... For the purpose of stimulating further scholarship on beauty and the body in film, television, and popular culture, the editors have compiled a bibliography of relevant literature. While we have tried to be as comprehensive as possible, the...

Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America.
March 22, 2002... edited by Philip Scranton While beauty has long been regarded as culturally specific (the eye of the beholder is always located in history), it has not usually been studied with respect to its relationships to economy, business, and...

The Body's Perilous Pleasures: Dangerous Desires in Contemporary Culture.
March 22, 2002... edited by Michelle Aaron Michelle Aaron's The Body's Perilous Pleasures: Dangerous Desires in Contemporary Culture is far from what one would call a traditional academic book in cultural studies. It deals with corporeal perils and...

Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry.
March 22, 2002... by Jon Lewis Jon Lewis describes Hollywood v. Hard Core, his history of film censorship, as a distinct narrative, "structured less like an academic history than a novel" (9). Indeed, he presents his audience with a sordid tale of...