Velvet Light Trap articles from March 2003

Velvet Light Trap archives from March 2003

Introduction.
March 22, 2003... In introductory remarks made by Theodor Adorno to a 1963 essay collection entitled Der getreue Korrepetitor (The Faithful Music Coach), he explained that the book was originally to be accompanied by a phonograph record. A record never...

The uncanny body of early sound film.
March 22, 2003... There are uses of sound that produce a desirable effect; on the other hand, there are uses that disgust people. --"Facts about Talking Pictures and Instruments--No. 4," Harrison's Reports 8 September 1928 The first synchronized sound...

Audition: making sense of/in the cinema.
March 22, 2003... Sensation can be anonymous because it is incomplete. The person who sees and the one who touches is not exactly myself, because the visible and tangible worlds are not the world in its entirety. --Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of...

Black faces, white voices: the politics of dubbing in Carmen Jones.
March 22, 2003... Otto Preminger's film Carmen Jones is often considered a landmark--both positively and negatively--in the history of black representations in the cinema. Released by Twentieth Century--Fox in 1954, Carmen Jones established Dorothy Dandridge as...

Lyrical nationalism: gender, friendship, and excess in 1970s Hindi cinema.
March 22, 2003... The Bombay film industry (Bollywood) is usually considered, along with other state-sanctioned institutions, in its role as a force for cultural and political consolidation within the architecture of postindependence Indian identity. (1) The...

"God Give Me Strength": the melodramatic sound tracks of Director Allison Anders.
March 22, 2003... The Subversive Sounds of Feminist Melodrama Allison Anders's films, which include Gas Food Lodging (1992), Mi Vida Loca (1994), and Grace of My Heart (1996), form a feminist commentary on the melodramatic tradition. Anders's films reveal...

An interview with Rick Altman.(Interview)
March 22, 2003... VLT: The field of sound studies began with a concentration on film music but has increasingly considered cinematic sound environments through attempts to account for the larger sound environment created in a given film. Your work has underlined...

Panel discussion on film sound/film music: Jim Buhler, Anahid Kassabian, David Neumeyer, and Robynn Stilwell.(Panel Discussion)
March 22, 2003... This panel discussion took place in "real time" in an on-line chat room devised especially for this event. Participants were then asked to offer their closing thoughts on the topics discussed as well as on the means of communication. The...

Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Arthur Knight. What counts as popular music in film? Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Arthur Knight, the editors of Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music, have cast a wide net in their attempt to...

Global Hollywood.(book review)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell have taken an ambitious and insightful look at the historical, political, and economic successes of Hollywood....

Horse Opera: the Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy.(book review)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Peter Stanfield Amid the pantheon of American pop and camp icons, the singing cowboy is generally associated with a brand of humor and fun that appeals solely to audiences of children. The assumption that cowboys are for kids has led...