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The Velvet Light Trap (VLT)

Publisher :

University of Texas Press

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Peer reviewed only
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Open Access
  • Film Studies
  • Television Studies
  • Media Studies

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e-ISSN :

1542-4251

Issue Frequency :

Semiannual

p-ISSN :

0149-1830

Est. Year :

1953

Mobile :

5122327621

DOI :

YES

Country :

United States

Language :

English

APC :

YES

Impact Factor Assignee :

Google Scholar

Email :

thevelvetlighttrap@gmail.com, velvetlighttrap.austin@gmail.com

Journal Descriptions

The Velvet Light Trap is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal of film, television, and new media. The journal draws on a variety of theoretical and historiographical approaches from the humanities and social sciences and welcomes any effort that will help foster the ongoing processes of evaluation and negotiation in media history and criticism. While VLT maintains its traditional commitment to the study of American film, it also expands its scope to television and other media, to adjacent institutions, and to other nations' media. media. The journal draws on a variety of theoretical and historiographical approaches from the humanities and social sciences and welcomes any effort that will help foster the ongoing processes of evaluation and negotiation in media history and criticism. Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas at Austin coordinate issues in alternation, and each issue is devoted to a particular theme. VLT’s TVLT‘s graduate student editors The Velvet Light Trap was established as a quarterly journal in 1971[1] by film lovers in Madison, Wisconsin, including graduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Russell Campbell served as editor-in-chief. In 1973, John Davis and Susan Dalton took over as editors, and Davis became the publisher. The journal's name originates from a specific part of the film camera that keeps the light out where the magazine is attached. In 1989, the journal changed publishers, moving to the University of Texas Press. As part of the deal with the journal's founders, UT graduate students would collectively co-edit the journal along with Madison students. With the move to the UT Press,


The Velvet Light Trap (VLT) is :

International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Film Studies, Television Studies, Media Studies, Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Historiography, American Studies, Digital Media, Popular Culture, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Communication and Media , Online or Print, Semiannual Journal

UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN - 0149-1830, E-ISSN - 1542-4251, Established in - 1953, Impact Factor

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