Velvet Light Trap articles from March 2004

Velvet Light Trap archives from March 2004

Introduction.(The Editors)(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... The initial charge and excitement that we felt about putting together an issue devoted to exploring subculture and deviance in film and television overshadowed the complexity of such an undertaking. As we drafted the call for papers and...

Panel discussion on "deviance": Bill Chambliss, Aaron Doyle, and Jimmie Reeves.(The Editors)(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... The foci of this issue, deviance and subculture, are notoriously slippery subjects, and in the course of putting together the issue the coordinating editors had many occasions to discuss just what constitutes "deviance." Hence the idea of...

Beyond the black macho: queer blaxploitation.
March 22, 2004... In American cinema of the early 1970s, there is perhaps no more revealing (if ideologically complex) forum for the analysis of" the "crises of masculinity" of the decade than blaxploitation cinema. If cinema and culture of the period were...

Lesbian "making-of" documentaries and the production of lesbian sex.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... On December 2, 2001, HBO began airing Project Greenlight, a twelve-part documentary series chronicling the production of a feature film by novice writer-director Pete Jones. (1) With its spectacle of backroom dealings, unchecked egos, and human...

Reconsidering The Idiots: Dogme95, Lars von Trier, and the cinema of subversion?(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.--Bertolt Brecht Sheds are bourgeois crap.---Stoffer, The Idiots Using Lars yon Trier's controversial The Idiots (1998) as a starting point, I intend to...

D-cinema: a timeline of experimental and mainstream uses of digital technology.(The Editors)(Industry Overview)
March 22, 2004... One of the factors that leads to change in the dominant modes of cinematic production and viewing is the development of new technologies; the incorporation of new technologies can force changes or strengthen established processes (the "norm")....

An interview with Rachel Raimist.(The Editors)(Interview)
March 22, 2004... Q: Describe the process you underwent while making Nobody Knows My Name. Include details about finding funding, contacting your subjects, encountering difficulties, etc. A: The film was made as my thesis project for my M.F.A. in directing...

Freaks, aliens, and the social other: representations of student stratification in U.S. television's first post-Columbine season.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Subdivisions In the high school halls In the shopping malls Conform or be cast out Subdivisions In the basement bars In the backs of cars Be cool or be cast out --Rush, "Subdivisions" (1982) Times have not become more violent. They...

Reality bites and Generation X as spectator.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... This article is about the life and times of an idea called "Generation X," and, in particular, it is about the articulation of this idea with regard to contemporary visual culture. According to Jim Finnegan, "[N]othing has been assumed to be so...

Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... by Chris Holmlund Chris Holmlund's Impossible Bodies is a collection of essays in which she explores the intersections of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class in filmic representations of bodies. According to Holmlund, filmic...

Cinema & Culture: Independent Film in the United States, 1980-2001.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... by E. Deidre Pribram Delimiting trends in film stands as a daunting task for cinema scholars. Cinema theory is further complicated by its inextricability from film practice, yet scholars and filmmakers often do not acknowledge just how...