>Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:06:14 -0500 >From: Avi Santo <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Velvet Light Trap CFP > >Dear All, > >My apologies if you have received this notice already. Some sort of >technology mix-up has forced me to resend. > >The Velvet Light Trap is currently seeking submissions for its Spring 2003 >issue. The Call Fro Papers is: Sound and Music in Film and Television. A >full description of our call has been both attached and pasted below. > >Please be so kind as to post the CFP on a grad bulletin board or forward >it to your listserv. If you are not the correct person to be sending this >CFP to, my apologies. Please forward it to the correct person or >department and, if possible, notify me as to the correct e-mail address to >send CFP's to in the future. > >Thank you for your cooperation. > >Sincerely, > >Avi Santo >Coordinating Editor >The Velvet Light Trap >University of Texas at Austin > >THE VELVET LIGHT TRAP >A CRITICAL JOURNAL OF FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES > >Call for Papers: Sound & Music in Film & Television > >While it is common to speak of seeing a film, audiences spend as much >time listening. Film sound theorist Michel Chion notes that "we never see >the same thing when we also hear; we don't hear the same thing when we see >as well." Scholars are increasingly recognizing the crucial role of sound >and music in the larger media experience. Issue #51 of The Velvet Light >Trap will examine specific uses of sound and their importance in media >production and consumption. The editors welcome essays that address the >roles played by sound and music in the larger signifying processes of >film, television, and related media. > >Possible topics for this issue include but are not limited to: >… Image/sound relationships & strategies (e.g. music & narrative, thematic >usage, sound effects) >… Film music composers, foley artists, sound engineers >… Exhibition practices (e.g. sound systems, orchestras, muzak, the >Japanese benshi narrative tradition) >… Audience sounds (laughter, screams, silence, etc.) >… Musical shorts, scopitones, & video jukeboxes >… Sound and genre (e.g. musicals, westerns, horror, action, teen films, >animation, etc.) >… Music Television & "MTV-ization" of music aesthetics & industrial >strategies >… Sound and representations of race, class & gender >… Made-for-TV rock and roll (e.g. The Monkees, American Bandstand, etc.) >… Voice, intonation, and meaning-making >… Soundtrack albums & the consumption of film & TV music (e.g. crossover >marketing) >… International contexts (e.g. film dubbing, Bollywood, etc.) >… Sound, music, & emotion (evocations of nostalgia, euphoria, loss) >… History of sound technologies in film & television (e.g. microphones, >gramophones, Dolby, DTS) >… Convergence of sound styles across media (e.g. film and video games, etc.) >… Music documentaries (e.g. Woodstock, Buena Vista Social Club, etc.) > >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 Kyle Barnett >([log in to unmask]). All submissions are due January 15, 2002. > >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 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. > >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 ><br> ><br> ></blockquote></x-html> ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu