Velvet Light Trap articles from September 1996

Velvet Light Trap archives from September 1996

Introduction.
September 22, 1996... The emerging field of masculinities studies, which has largely grown out of feminist theory, has been characterized by a great deal of debate about the validity and signifiCance of studying representations of male subjectivity. Why turn our...

Masculine/feminine: the "New Masculinity" in Tootsie (1982).
September 22, 1996... The idea of masculinity itself is both theoretically and historically troubled.... The popular media have come up with a bewildering variety of images of contemporary masculinity, which attempt to solidify, contain, or manage...

On fathers and sons, sex and death: John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood.
September 22, 1996... Media Rhetoric, Filmic Philosophy, Textual Analysis "One out of twenty-one Black American males will be murdered in their lifetime. Most will die at the hands of another Black man." These two statements, the second following the first on a...

"Can you feel it, Joe?": male melodrama and the Feeling Man.
September 22, 1996... Feeling Man. The character of a man realized in a fragrance of startling originality. A statement of self. For the man who lives through his feelings. --Advertising copy for Jil Sander's "Feeling Man "fragrance ...

"More than a woman": music, masculinity and male spectacle in Saturday Night Fever and Staying Alive.
September 22, 1996... You can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk. --"Staying Alive," written and performed by the Bee Gees These lyrics from the hit song "Staying Alive" and their association with the opening sequence...

Economic constraints/economic opportunities: Robert Altman as auteur.
September 22, 1996... Working in film and television for over four decades, director Robert Altman continually has provoked strong critical response--both positive and negative--within the media and little interest among the general public. After a lengthy career in...

Directed by Dorothy Arzner.
September 22, 1996... by Judith Mayne The trajectory of feminist work on Dorothy Arzner--known as the only woman director in Hollywood in the 1920s to 1940s--an interesting path, one that may parallel a record of the last twenty years of feminist film theory....

Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television.
September 22, 1996... by John Thornton Caldwell In his review of David Bordwell's Making Meaning a few years ago, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith wrote of the need for scholars to "rediscover that the creation and ordering of new knowledge is greatly aided by building on...