Velvet Light Trap articles from March 22 2008

Velvet Light Trap archives from March 22 2008

Introduction.(THE EDITORS)(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... In a summer box office that touts adaptation, remake, and serial texts such as Shrek the Third, Live Free or Die Hard, Spiderman 3, The Bourne Ultimatum, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Rush Hour 3, Transformers, Halloween, Pirates...

"Beam me up, Omer": transnational media flow and the cultural politics of the Turkish Star Trek remake.(G.O.R.A.)(Critical essay)(Cover story)
March 22, 2008... While subjected peoples cannot readily control what emanates from the dominant culture, they do determine to varying extents what they absorb into their own, and what they use it for. --Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and...

Remaking and the film trilogy: Whit Stillman's authorial triptych.
March 22, 2008... The trailer for the 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival features a scruffy, bespectacled teenager sandwiched between two suited Hollywood executive types in the back of a limousine. As the car moves through a neon-lit streetscape, the...

Somewhere in time: utopia and the Return of Superman.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Superman is one of the most durable icons of American popular culture, evidenced most recently by the release of Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, 2006). The success of Superman texts depends in large part upon their ability to appeal to audience...

The concessions of Nat Turner.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... Perhaps the reader will wish to draw a moral from this narrative, but it has been my own intention to try to re-create a man and his era, and to produce a work that is less an "historical novel" in conventional terms than a meditation on...

An interview with Richard Linklater.(Interview)
March 22, 2008... Richard Linklater (RL): I have very fond memories of the Velvet Light Trap. Kevin John Bozelka (KJB): You do? RL: Yeah, I've been reading it for a while. I have old copies. KJB: Great! Well, one of the reasons why we chose the...

The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan By Todd McGowan With The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan, Todd McGowan makes a subtle but potentially profound move, the kind that makes you think, Why hasn't this been done more often? Rather...

Film Remakes.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Film Remakes By Constantine Verevis In a group-think posted on David Bordwell's excellent blog site in 2007, the question of sequels--specifically, "part threes"--was smartly debated. The heading for the entry put the polemical line...

Sound Design and Science Fiction.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Sound Design and Science Fiction By William Whittington Often in genre studies there is a moment when an author turns his or her attention to sound for the duration of a sentence, a page, or perhaps even as much as an entire chapter,...

Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical By Steven Cohan With his 1978 essay "The American Film Musical: Paradigmatic Structure and Mediatory Function," Rick Altman made an important intervention into the...

Youth Culture in Global Cinema.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Youth Culture in Global Cinema Edited by Timothy Shary and Alexandra Seibel In Childhood and Society (1950), Erik Erikson's classic study of psychosocial stages of development, Erikson identified adolescence as a stage of...

Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcare Feature in Its Contexts By David Andrews David Andrews has set himself an unenviable task--to write a critical history of a film genre that often works overtime to make itself...

Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording By Tim J. Anderson Most studies of the pre-rock era in America take one of two approaches when tackling the few decades before the rise of rock-n-roll. They view...