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    > 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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