Velvet Light Trap articles from September 2001

Velvet Light Trap archives from September 2001

Introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2001... Children and teens have been socially articulated as sources of hope and of fear, subjects at once innocent and corrupt, objects to be shielded from danger and to be exploited. As figures warranting protection (and to be protected against),...

The kid from The Kid: Jackie Coogan and the consolidation of child consumerism.
September 22, 2001... Two months after the New York premiere of Chaplin's The Kid on 6 January 1921, a California journalist pondered over the identity of the film's scene-stealing six year old. Under the headline "'Jackie' Coogan, Aged Six; Salary $62,400," the...

"Like nickels in a slot": Children of the American working classes at the neighborhood movie house.
September 22, 2001... This essay presents an ethnohistorical (1) account of the social conditions of children's moviegoing during the late 1920s and early 1930s at the Strand theater in Springfield, Massachusetts. (2) The focus is placed specifically on a...

"Calculated violence and viciousness ": the British critical reaction to Elvis Presley's King Creole.
September 22, 2001... Memorably described by the Monthly Film Bulletin as featuring "calculated violence and viciousness," King Creole (1958) not only represents Elvis Presley's best screen performance but also his most violent film ("King Creole" 115). This essay...

"A bit of earth": sexuality and the representation of childhood in text and screen versions of The Secret Garden.
September 22, 2001... Charlotte Brunsdon, in a feminist account of Garry Marshall's 1990 film, Pretty Woman, draws attention to the "sub-pornographic codes" (97) of the opening scenes: the viewer/voyeur is shown the hooker-heroine getting dressed, through tight...

Youth, leisure, and voyeurism in MTV's Undressed.
September 22, 2001... In her book Gender Politics and MTV, Lisa Lewis examines the ideological underpinnings of the cable music video channel in its inception in the early 1980s. She quotes MTV architect Bob Pittman as stating that he designed MTV to "mirror the...

Perverse and improper pedagogies: the case of Freddy's fingers and Russell's head.
September 22, 2001... On recent years, critical pedagogy's arguments about educating for a plural and diverse citizenship have increasingly located their struggle on the terrain of popular media (see Giroux; Giroux and McLaren; Livingstone; McLaren). I do not...

Cinema and Nation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... edited by Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie Cinemas and nations are unlikely to disappear any time soon," write the editors of Cinema and Nation in their introduction. "While they may continue to change and assume new forms, their ubiquity...

The Making of Citizens: Young People, News, and Politics.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... With the possible exception of Valerie Walkerdine, no media scholar has advanced the youth question in cultural studies further than David Buckingham. While Buckingham's earlier work made signal contributions to cultural studies in media...