Velvet Light Trap articles from September 1997

Velvet Light Trap archives from September 1997

Introduction.
September 22, 1997... Film, television, video, and other media have always had an international aspect, and in an era increasingly referred to as "global," issues of transnational media production, distribution, and reception have garnered more attention. Since the...

Fighting the American invasion with cricket, roses, and marmalade for breakfast.
September 22, 1997... Recent theorizations of national cinemas and of the influences of international film in formulations of the national can be linked to a renewed interest in the complexities of the nation, globalization, and transnationalism in other fields....

First and finest: British films on U.S. television in the late 1940s.
September 22, 1997... In a special newspaper supplement announcing the 1948 opening of New York's television station WPIX, the New York Daily News, which owned the new unaffiliated station, reported WPIX's pledge to bring New Yorkers the "first and finest" in...

Speaking tongues: voice dubbing in the cinema as cultural ventriloquism.
September 22, 1997... ... translations of translations of translations.... Every text is unique and at the same time it is the translation of another text.... Every translation up to a certain point is an invention and as such constitutes a unique text. ...

Consuming the planet: Planet Hollywood, stars, and the global consumer culture.
September 22, 1997... "People love the movies, and we want to export Hollywood to the world," said [Planet Hollywood] co-owner and movie producer Keith (9 1/2 Weeks) Barish.... "When you walk off the street, you walk into the world of Hollywood." --"Planet of...

Global, national, local? Some problems of culture in a postmodern world.
September 22, 1997... Scott Sassa, while president of the Turner Entertainment Group, said in 1995, Last summer, you had some movies that did over US$100 million. And you had a lot of movies that tanked well under $40 million. But you didn't have a ...

Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries.
September 22, 1997... by David Morley and Kevin Robins As all the essays in this issue of the Velvet Light Trap have discussed, media are not easily contained or categorized by national boundaries. While early film and television histories feature instances of...

Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies.
September 22, 1997... by bell hooks bell hooks is the first to admit that film criticism written by people who aren't film scholars is usually viewed with suspicion. But since her students claim to learn most of what they know about race, sex, and class from...