> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 18:14:18 -0400
>
> xposted from H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU
>
> From: jmittell@STUDENTS.WISC.EDU
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> _The Velvet Light Trap_: A Critical Journal of
> Film and Television. #44,
> Fall 1999
>
> Beyond the Image:
> Race & Ethnicity in the Media
>
> Traditionally, the study of film and television
> has approached the issue of
> race & ethnicity by examining the image on the
> screen, cataloguing
> characterizations and comparing them to real
> social conditions. While this approach has
> yielded many fruitful analyses concerning racial &
> ethnic representations, recent interdisciplinary
> developments have offered new theoretical,
> historical, and critical paradigms that have
> opened up fresh possibilities for conceiving race
> and ethnicity in relation to the media.
>
> Concurrently, the topic of race & ethnicity has
> taken on greater importance in scholarly debates
> of all disciplines, moving from the margins to a
> more central position within academia. In light of
> these disciplinary shifts, _The Velvet Light Trap_
> invites papers offering new insights on race &
> ethnicity within film and television studies.
>
> Possible topics for this issue may include but are
> not limited to:
> Mainstream Industrial Practices
> * Targeting Racialized Audiences
> * Ghettoization of Ethnic "Others"
> * Co-optation of Marginal Identities
> * Integration of Industry Personnel
> * Production Financing
> * Advertising Strategies
> * Crossover Appeals
>
> Politics of Representation
> * Social Construction of Race & Ethnicity
> * Intersections with Multiple Axes of
> Differentiation
> * Immigration & Ethnic Coding
> * Hybrid Identities
> * Whiteness & the Media
> * Racial & Ethnic Borders
> * Diasporic Cultures
> * Displacing Race & Ethnicity
> * Intraracial Issues
>
> Audiences & Reception
> * Racial Variations of Reception Practices
> * Questions of Taste
> * Transnational Ethnic Identities
> * Audience Feedback & Backlash
> * Exhibition & Geography
>
> Textual Practices
> * Independent Modes of Production
> * Documentary & Television Journalism
> * Race & the Avant Garde
> * Indigenous Media
> * Music & Racial Politics
> * Race & Genre Studies
> * Visual Style
>
> Methodological Questions
> * Historiography of Ethnicity
> * Race & Media Pedagogy
> * Ethnographic Practices
> * Redefining Categories of Race & Ethnicity
> * Positioning Race & Ethnicity Research in Academy
>
> Papers should be between 15 and 25 pages,
> double-spaced, in MLA style with a cover page
> including the writer's name and contact
> information. Please send four copies of the paper
> in a format suitable to be sent to a reader
> anonymously. All submissions will be refereed by
> the journal's Editorial Advisory Board. For more
> information or questions, contact Chris Becker
> (608-256-3740, cbecker@students.wisc.edu) or Jason
> Mittell (608-246-3020,
> jmittell@students.wisc.edu). Submissions are due
> September 15, 1998, and should be sent to:
>
> _The Velvet Light Trap_
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> Department of Communication Arts
> 821 University Avenue
> Madison, Wisconsin USA 53706-1497
>
> _The Velvet Light Trap_ is an academic,
> peer-reviewed journal of film and
> television studies. The journal is published
> bi-annually in March and
> September by the University of Texas Press.
> Issues are edited alternately
> by graduate students at the University of Texas at
> Austin and the
> University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Editorial
> Advisory Board includes
> such notable scholars as Rhona Berenstein, Matthew
> Bernstein, Manthia
> Diawara, Herman Gray, Henry Jenkins, Lynne
> Joyrich, George Lipsitz, Charles Musser, and Chon
> Noriega.
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