Velvet Light Trap articles from September 2004

Velvet Light Trap archives from September 2004

Introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... Innovation and experimentation have been a central part of the development of film, television, radio, and other media practices. Throughout the histories of both mainstream and alternative media, renovations in technology such as sound,...

Defensive transcriptions: radio networks, sound-on-disc recording, and the meaning of live broadcasting.
September 22, 2004... In December 1933 Merlin Aylesworth and Richard Patterson, president and vice president of NBC, exchanged a series of memos on sound-on-disc transcription recording. One of the most visible public faces of NBC, Aylesworth had spent much of the...

Eisenstein in America: the Que Viva Mexico! debates and the emergent popular front in U.S. film theory and criticism.
September 22, 2004... In the early 1930s a group of American film critics banked their hopes on the mass distribution of Sergei Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico! within the United States to prove once and for all that modernism was not the sole province of cultural...

Claiming a style: the "Living Cinema" of Pierre Perrault's Pour la suite du monde.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... In a 1963 interview in Cahiers du Cinema Jean Rouch expresses great enthusiasm for Pierre Perrault's Pour la suite du monde (1963), then a work in progress: It's about fishing for a white whale, a film where you might say [Henri]...

Masters of ceremony: media demonstration as performance in three instances of expanded cinema.
September 22, 2004... During the mid- to late sixties a new medium--or, more accurately, a medium cluster--emerged that experimented with cutting-edge technologies and tapped the synergetic potential of film, video, and computer-generated images in synesthetic...

An interview with Anthony McCall.(Interview)
September 22, 2004... From 1973 to 1975 Anthony McCall produced a series of films that challenged the filmic materialism exemplified by so-called structural film and high modernism's ethic of medium-specificity with which those works were associated. The best known...

Film Structure and the Emotion System.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Film Structure and the Emotion System by Greg M. Smith Film theory based on cognitive science has approached the study of audience emotion from a unique perspective, using empirical research to analyze the effects of cinema upon human...

Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV by Sam Brenton and Reuben Cohen New television shows are rarely new. In considering the history of reality programming I am reminded that, as Fred Allen put "imitation is the sincerest form of...