>Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 14:47:56 -0400 >From: Avi Santo <[log in to unmask]> > >The Velvet Light Trap, a refereed critical journal of film and >television studies, is currently seeking submissions for its Spring 2002 >issue. Please post on bullentin boards and/or forward the following >attachment of our call to your departmental listservs. > >Our apologies if this is not the proper e-mail address for such things. >In such cases, kindly forward this e-mail to the appropriate address. > >Thanking you in advance, > >Avi Santo >Coordinating Editor The Velvet Light Trap A Critical Journal of Film and Television Studies Call For Papers: Beauty Marks: Representations of Beauty and the Body in Film and Television Ever-present but difficult at times to discern, discourses of beauty and the body continually circulate in popular film and television and related extra-textual materials. These discourses express popular thought: how we view beauty, the various qualities that we associate with it, and, in particular, how we see ourselves and others. Embedded in and influencing these discourses are the dynamics of social and power relations with respect to gender, ethnicity, race, class, and sexuality on local, national, and international levels. With these complex dynamics in mind, what is to be made of images of female and male "beauty" and the body in film and television, as well as the dynamics of power involved in their production? Do such images have an impact on our everyday lives? The Velvet Light Trap is interested in receiving papers that explore and interrogate these discourses, images, texts, and questions from both contemporary and historical vantage points. Papers are encouraged to engage topics related to beauty and/or the body from a variety of scholarly and theoretical perspectives, including but not limited to historical, textual, industrial, and reception studies. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to: Media celebrity as it relates to beauty and/or the body Televised sports and body image and/or beauty Televised national and international beauty pageants Children's media and representations of the body and/or beauty Competing portrayals of beauty and the body with respect to the export of U.S. film and television Images of beauty and/or the body with respect to gender and/or sexual orientation Film or television genres and stock images of the body Racial and/or beauty politics in the casting of film and television productions Beauty images, class and consumerism in film and television Independent and self-made media and alternative images of beauty and the body The influence of the fashion industry on popular film and television Film pornography and depictions of beauty and the body Blackface, yellowface, and other ethnic mimicry in film and television Body adornment and "defacement" (tattoos, bendis, etc.) in film and television 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 at 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 Donald Crafton, Michael Curtin, Alexander Doty, Cynthia Fuchs, Herman Gray, Heather Hendershot, Barbara Klinger, Walter Metz, Charles Musser, Chon Noriega, Lynn Spigel, and Chris Straayer. To be considered for publication, papers should be between 15 and 25 pages, 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 co-coordinating editor Mary Beltrán ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>, 512-471-4071). All submissions are due January 15, 2001. Please address submissions to: The Velvet Light Trap c/o The Department of Radio-Television-Film University of Texas at Austin CMA 6.118, Mail Code A0800 Austin, TX 78712 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite