{"title":"That Expensive Oriental Flesh: The Racial Form of a New Deal Musical","authors":"Xin Peng","doi":"10.7560/vlt9305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/vlt9305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335072,"journal":{"name":"The Velvet Light Trap","volume":"17 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140278011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Obama Coalition as a Model for Mass Audience: Higher Ground Productions, Consensus Taste, and Streaming Media’s Centrism","authors":"Evan Elkins","doi":"10.7560/vlt9303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/vlt9303","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335072,"journal":{"name":"The Velvet Light Trap","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140279022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “Problem” of Black Skin: The Naturalization of Technological Racial Bias through the Discourse of Adobe Lightroom Presets and Wedding Photography","authors":"Collin Hawley","doi":"10.7560/vlt9304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/vlt9304","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335072,"journal":{"name":"The Velvet Light Trap","volume":"16 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140269968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About Time, The Urban Village, and Digital Disruptions of the London Romantic Comedy","authors":"Harriet Idle","doi":"10.7560/vlt9202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/vlt9202","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines the disruptions seen between the London romantic comedy's depictions of pre- and post-digital urban space. Focusing on Richard Curtis's About Time (2013) as a pivotal case study, I analyze how the London rom-com has navigated the rapid integration of digital technologies within urban life since the genre's boom in the 1990s. I argue that the kinds of aesthetic and formal challenges to rom-com conventions seen in About Time in fact preserve the genre's central ideological underpinnings (and expectations of city space) in the face of the potentially unsettling or destructive impacts of digitization.","PeriodicalId":335072,"journal":{"name":"The Velvet Light Trap","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130337992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meeting the Parents: Romance's Comedic Ruptures in the Familial Rom-Com","authors":"Kate J. Russell","doi":"10.7560/vlt9203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/vlt9203","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The familial romantic comedy extends the trajectory of the traditional rom-com into the wider family, further affirming the rom-com's reliance on heteronormative ideology, positing blood ties and a unified, cordial family unit as the ideal outcome for any coupling. But the comedic moments in familial rom-coms occur when the futureoriented trajectories of heteronormative couplings are ruptured and become incompatible with romance's warm fuzzy feelings and its optimistic look toward the future. Instead, comedy tears at the seams of heteronormative polite civility as a momentary rupture of its eventuality.","PeriodicalId":335072,"journal":{"name":"The Velvet Light Trap","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126279043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remembering the Future, Unraveling the Mystery: Science Fiction as Collective Memory in Postdictatorship Argentina","authors":"Jennifer Alpert","doi":"10.7560/vlt9205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/vlt9205","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Science fiction film production has grown in Argentina since the late twentieth century. While in North America the genre has been concerned with the future, postdictatorship Argentinean science fiction investigates a past riddled with mysteries and memories, presenting a cautionary tale of what will happen if the country's history falls into oblivion. Through analysis of postdictatorship films, I show how Argentinean science fiction's deep historical ties and its use of detecting qualities associated with crime thrillers help to unravel the traumatic mysteries of the past. This article challenges characterizations of genres as ahistorical, showing that different production contexts yield shifts and disruptions in addition to continuities.","PeriodicalId":335072,"journal":{"name":"The Velvet Light Trap","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133735805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fourth Cinema Genre Mash-Up: Coming-of-Age Drama and Sketch Comedy in Reservation Dogs","authors":"C. Baron","doi":"10.7560/vlt9204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/vlt9204","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The article analyzes and contextualizes Reservation Dogs, the FX series on Hulu created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi. The series features a cast of emerging and established Native stars and an Indigenous creative team that includes award-winning independent filmmakers and the 1491s, whose irreverent open-access sketch-comedy videos have a global audience. The series' mix of sketch comedy and coming-of-age drama reflects the creative team's cultural activism, imaginatively deconstructs stereotypes, shows how genres move in new directions, and illuminates precedents in sketch comedy and Indigenous film and media.","PeriodicalId":335072,"journal":{"name":"The Velvet Light Trap","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131579281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}