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Velvet Light Trap Issue #60 Documentary Now CFP: Documentaries have undergone significant stylistic, aesthetic, and representational shifts from early ethnographic films and the Griersonian tradition to contemporary work by filmmakers as varied as Trinh T. Minh-ha and Michael Moore. Debates regarding the role of the documentarian, ethics of production, editing, indexicality, claims to "truth" and reality, and representations of race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality/class have altered how audiences and scholars consider documentaries. Issue 60 of the Velvet Light Trap continues these dialogues by seeking essays for a special issue on contemporary documentary. Essays examining debates in documentary theory and criticism in light of contemporary contexts, stylistic/textual strategies, changing patterns of distribution and exhibition, and industrial analyses are particularly encouraged. The editorial board is especially interested in changes in documentary theory, practice and criticism from the 1980s-present. Possible topics for this issue include but are not limited to: reality television "reality" and hyperreality sound style music documentary and transnational trade/global flows social movements and filmmaking production models audiences and reading formations distribution and technology indexicality technology and/or distribution documentary theory contemporary politics and documentary filmmakers/movements and production philosophy editing, style, and aesthetics sexual/gender/racial representations PBS/BBC/public service documentary style News documentary Documentaries and education Documentaries and film festival circuits Distribution Cable TV and documentary texts Case studies of particular filmmakers (e.g., Wiseman, Morris) avant garde/experimental documentary animation, internet, and/or new media in documentary texts short form documentary budgeting and financing community organizing around the documentary To be considered for publication, papers should be between 4,500 and 7,500 words, double-spaced, in MLA style, with the author's name and contact information included only on the cover page. Queries regarding potential submissions also are welcome. Authors are responsible for acquiring related visual images and the associated copyrights. For more information or to submit a query, please contact Kyle Conway ([log in to unmask]), David Resha ([log in to unmask]), Charlie Michael ([log in to unmask]), or Ben Aslinger ([log in to unmask]). All submissions are due September 15, 2006. The Velvet Light Trap is an academic, refereed journal of film and television studies published semi-annually by University of Texas Press. Issues are coordinated alternately by graduate students at the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After a prescreening, articles are anonymously refereed by specialist readers of the journal's Editorial Advisory Board, which includes such notable scholars as Charles Acland, David William Foster, Sean Griffin, Bambi Haggins, Heather Hendershot, Charlie Keil, Michele Malach, Dan Marcus, Nina Martin, Tara McPherson, Walter Metz, Jason Mittell, James Morrison, Steve Neale, Karla Oeler, Lisa Parks, and Malcolm Turvey. Please address submissions to: Velvet Light Trap 6th Floor, Vilas Communication Hall 821 University Avenue UW-Madison Madison, WI 53706 * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **