Velvet Light Trap articles from September 2000

Velvet Light Trap archives from September 2000

Introduction.
September 22, 2000... In the post-Cold War era, ideology has given way to religion as one of the principal areas of national and international dispute. From Northern Ireland and the Balkans to Central Asia and the Middle East, religion is emerging as one of the most...

Onward Christian soldiers? A review essay.
September 22, 2000... Linda Kintz and Julia Lesage, editors. Media, Culture, and the Religious Right (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998). Popular understanding of fundamentalism generally vacillates between two modes: fear and ridicule. When Christian...

"The most dangerous anti-semitic photoplay in filmdom": American Jews and The King of Kings (DeMille, 1927).(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Martha found out who killed our God the jews did it. When I went to see King of Kings it showed how the jews killed him. Handwritten note from "Irish child to Italian child" in the papers of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (1) "The King of...

"Evil" images in At Play in the Fields of the Lord: evangelicals and representations of sexuality in contemporary film.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... In December 1991, after three decades of various filmmakers and actors expressing interest in the project, Hector Babenco's long-awaited thirty-two-million-dollar adaptation of At Play in the Fields of the Lord finally arrived in American...

Welcome home?: CBS, PAX-TV, and "Heartland" values in a neo-network era.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... In the summer of 1996 American television broadcast network CBS launched a new marketing campaign and new prime-time programming slate. The network appealed to its audience with the promotional line, "The Address Is CBS--Welcome Home!"...

Celluloid sisters: femininity, religiosity, and the postwar American nun film.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... From the late fifties and through the sixties, Catholic women religious--or nuns, as they are more colloquially called--became dramatic fodder for a number of Hollywood films. During this time at least fifteen films featuring nuns were...

Media fandom, neoreligiosity, and cult(ural) studies.
September 22, 2000... Discourses of "the Cult" On his 1901-02 Edinburgh lecture series, William James referred to the "cult" surrounding Walt Whitman: "many persons to-day regard Walt Whitman as the restorer of the eternal natural religion. He has infected them...

Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox.
September 22, 2000... by Laura R. Linder As media mergers continue apace, concentrating ever more media outlets in ever fewer hands, media scholars and activists concerned with fostering a wider variety of voices and greater democratic participation in the...

Refiguring American Film Genres: Theory and History.
September 22, 2000... edited by Nick Browne Film/Genre by Rick Altman Like film genres themselves, trends in media criticism are cyclical, a pattern exemplified by the history of film genre studies. First emerging as an alternative to auteur analysis in the...