Velvet Light Trap articles from September 1998

Velvet Light Trap archives from September 1998

Introduction: media audiences and reception. (The Editors).
September 22, 1998... As we move toward the twenty-first century, the audience and the context of reception are among the most perplexing and enigmatic areas of investigation for media scholars. Recent research in film and television studies has complicated the...

The new media aristocrats: home theater and the domestic film experience.
September 22, 1998... For most of cinema's existence, scholars have analyzed the medium almost exclusively as a phenomenon of the big screen. The defining situation of cinema--pure, authentic cinema--seems linked indissolubly to the projection of celluloid in the...

"The moral part of the story was great": Frank Capra and film education in the 1930s.
September 22, 1998... On May 8, 1934, Nelle J. Brown, a high school student in Kannapolis, North Carolina, wrote a brief thank-you note to Fred Powell, business secretary of the local YMCA. The Y doubled as a movie theater in Kannapolis, and on May 4 Powell had...

Prime-time television in the gay nineties: network television, quality audiences, and gay politics.
September 22, 1998... In 1994, Entertainment Weekly dubbed the decade "the Gay 90s." (1) A look at the period's prime-time network-television programming seems to prove the announcement prophetic. Throughout its first four decades, television virtually denied the...

Sob stories, merriment, and surprises: the 1950s audience participation show on network television and women's daytime reception.
September 22, 1998... The women who watched daytime television during the 1950s have not been lost to history. Their images flicker to life on the black-and-white kinescopes that chronicle the decade's audience participation shows. These images, and the narrative...

Movie Mad: audiences and censorship in a California town, 1916-1926.
September 22, 1998... When scholars think about movie censorship, they commonly refer to significant court cases like Mutual Film vs. Ohio (1915), which placed motion pictures outside of the jurisdiction of the Constitution's First Amendment, or to the manipulation...

Stealing the spectacle: gay audiences and the queering of Douglas Fairbanks's body.
September 22, 1998... One of the most fruitful areas of investigation during the 1990s has revolved around the cinematic pleasures of queer spectators. Popular culture studies have demonstrated how gay, lesbian, and bisexual viewers mobilize their sexualities to...

Understanding grassroots audiences: imagination, reception, and use in community videography.
September 22, 1998... Even within the growing literature on film audiences and differential receptions it remains easy to identify the question of audience with broadcast media, professional distribution, and mass marketing (see Bobo 1988; Pribram 1988; Seiter et...

The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1939.
September 22, 1998... by Ruth Vasey Since the Production Code Administration opened its records in 1983, several film scholars have documented the connection between the content of Hollywood's studio-era films and the production code that set limits on what...

Re-Viewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Postmodern Culture.
September 22, 1998... by Lynne Joyrich Although its title suggests that this work is a reevaluation of reception studies, Re-Viewing Reception is instead a metacritique of television criticism as a whole. Wide-ranging and sometimes polemical, Joyrich's book...