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The Velvet Light Trap CFP: On Sound (New Directions in Sound Studies)

March 5, 2013
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<i> The Velvet Light Trap </i> CFP: On Sound (New Directions in Sound Studies)

The coordinating editors of The Velvet Light Trap are seeking submissions for a forthcoming issue that explores new directions in sound studies.
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NYFF 2012: In a Mellow Mood [Part One]

October 4, 2012
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NYFF 2012: In a Mellow Mood [Part One]

Taking on selections from this year's New York Film Festival.
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A Glee Vid in Memory of Alex Doty

August 24, 2012
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"My love's too big for you my love": an offering for those who admired Alexander Doty and his work (as well as those who enjoy Glee's Kurt Hummel).
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The 2012 Sight & Sound Poll: Don’t Call it a Consensus

The 2012 Sight & Sound Poll: Don’t Call it a Consensus

Sight and Sound's top ten gets all the press, but beneath it is a much larger, more heterogeneous body of work that reveals larger trends in film and beyond.
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Brave: Changing Our Fate

July 10, 2012
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Brave: Changing Our Fate

If Pixar is truly a cutting-edge animation studio, why did Brave take seventeen years?
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Accessing the Cinematic Cloud

January 31, 2012
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Accessing the Cinematic Cloud

Recent comparisons to the early experience of using an ATM seem to offer quite a bit of potential for describing how we will be buying and watching movies and television shows in the near future.
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An Oscar for Andy?

November 16, 2011
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An Oscar for Andy?

20th Century Fox is mounting an Oscar campaign for The Planet of the Apes' Andy Serkis. Tama Leaver examines the potential implications of this sort of virtual acting or 'synthespian' (synthetic thespian) performance for our understanding of what it means to act or perform.
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The Materiality of Media

September 8, 2011
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The Materiality of Media

As culture becomes increasingly digitized, arguments for the “dematerialization” of media are becoming commonplace. However, media have always been, and remain, embedded in and structured by material objects, networks, and practices that delimit their uses and meanings.
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Sarah Palin, Anti-Fandom, and the Nature of Political Celebrity

July 1, 2011
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Sarah Palin, Anti-Fandom, and the Nature of Political Celebrity

With the release of the new documentary on Sarah Palin, the former governor takes umbrage at the "hate" directed toward her by Hollywood celebrities. She either doesn't understand celebrity culture or understands it all too well.
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Charlie Chan and Contemporary B-Movie Fandom

January 15, 2011
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Charlie Chan and Contemporary B-Movie Fandom

A controversial new book argues that it’s okay to enjoy Charlie Chan movies.
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In Memoriam: The Late, Great Leslie Nielsen

December 13, 2010
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In Memoriam: The Late, Great Leslie Nielsen

Remembering the man Roger Ebert once called "the Olivier of spoofs."
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Late to the Party: It’s a Wonderful Life

December 8, 2010
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Late to the Party: <i>It’s a Wonderful Life</i>

For me, Jimmy Stewart and my hometown became one. As a teenager, I hated my hometown and small-town life in general. Why on earth would I watch the film on which my town based its image?
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Anti-Social? The Classic Aesthetic of The Social Network

October 14, 2010
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Anti-Social? The Classic Aesthetic of <i>The Social Network</i>

The biggest fiction in the popular press about the film dubbed "the Facebook movie" is that it is, in fact, about Facebook.
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Arthur Penn and Live Television Drama

October 3, 2010
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Arthur Penn and Live Television Drama

Director Arthur Penn, who passed away last week, is best remembered for his Broadway plays and Hollywood films, but his impressive work in television's live anthology dramas has been neglected.
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