CFP The Velvet Light Trap Issue #73: Media Cultures of the Early Cold War Era
Few historical periods are as rich for film and media history as the
post-war/early Cold War era, which witnessed such epochal shifts as
the domestic decline and international expansion of Hollywood, the
global rise of art cinema, the diffusion of television, and the
emergence of academic film study. Though these events are well-known
and well-documented, recent scholarship has urged us to see them in
the context of transnational cultural exchanges. Vanessa Schwartz has
noted that "although we often speak of 'global media' culture we do
not have a sufficiently textured
sense of how it came to be," and her *It's So French!* shows "just
how contingent the story of global media is when approached as a
historical problem." Recent anthologies expanding on this project
include *Opening Bazin: Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife
*(Andrews, 2011)* and *Global Neorealism: the Transnational History
of a Film Style* (Sklar and Giovacchini, 2012).
Issue #73, "Media Cultures of the Early Cold War Era," will provide a
forum for further research on the complexity of global
circulation--of films, stars, personnel, technologies, media
theories, habits of viewing--that resulted from the period's
geopolitical and economic realignments. Of particular interest is
work attending to networks that emerged independent from North
America's and Europe's industrial alliance, although research
focusing on underexplored activities and practices of these media
industries and their adjacent institutions is also encouraged. We are
interested not only in commercial media industries, but also state
agencies' and international organizations' experiments with and
deployment of various media. For this issue, the editors of *The
Velvet Light Trap* seek to bring together original scholarship that
engages new theoretical frameworks, historiographical methods,
archival sources, and historical
perspectives that encourage re-evaluations of our understanding of
this crucial period in media history.
Suggested areas of inquiry include, but are not limited, to:
- National and International film style and genre
- National, regional, and international documentary and educational films
- Early television history
- The rise of film culture, art cinema institutions, and cinephilia
- Cinemas and media cultures under occupation
- Global diffusion of new production and exhibition technologies
- International movement of filmmaking personnel
- Shifting centers of production, including International movement of
filmmaking personnel, International coproductions and runaway production
- Postwar remakes and repurposing of pre-war and wartime media
- Early international film festivals
- Debates on the function, political or aesthetic, of moving image media
- Media industry unions, guilds, and other professional organizations
- Development of film culture institutions: festivals, nontheatrical
distribution networks, publications, critics, academic courses and
departments, etc.
Submission Instructions:
Papers should be between 6,000 and 7,500 words, double-spaced in
Chicago style ("Humanities style" or notes and bibliography style
with full bibliographic citations included in unembedded endnotes).
Please send two electronic copies of your paper (each with an
abstract and each saved as a Word .doc or .docx file) to the email
address provided below. One copy should be suitable to be viewed by a
reader anonymously, with all information that identifies the author
removed. The second copy must include the author's full contact
information (name, phone number, mailing address, and email address).
Confirmation will be sent to the email address you provide, within 48
hours of receipt. The journal's Editorial Advisory Board will referee
all submissions.
All submissions are due January 4, 2013, and should be sent to
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and television. Graduate students at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and The University of Texas at Austin alternately
coordinate issues. The Editorial Advisory
Board includes such notable scholars as Charles Acland, Richard
Allen, Harry Benshoff, Mia Consalvo, Radhika Gajjala, Darrell
Hamamoto, Joan Hawkins, Scott Higgins, Barbara Klinger, Jon
Kraszewski, Diane Negra, Michael Newman, Alisa Perren, Yeidy Rivero,
Nicholas Sammond, Beretta Smith-Shomade, Cristina Venegas, Michael
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Amanda Landa
PhD Candidate, Radio-Television-Film
Screening Coordinator--FlowTV Conference 2010
Velvet Light Trap Editorial Collective
Column editor Flowtv.org
University of Texas at Austin
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