SECOND REMINDER 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, Chon
Noriega, and Lynn Spigel.
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JAY RUBY - Temple University - PO Box 128, Mifflintown, PA 17059
USA
fax - 717-436-9559 voice - 717-436-9502
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My Web page is http://www.temple.edu/anthro/ruby/jayruby.html
Call for Papers for "Image Ethics in the Digital Age" - book and
conference - http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~ruby/ethics/
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"Of course in this you fellows see more than I could see. You see me."
Marlowe in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
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