The Velvet Light Trap seeks essays for an issue on "useful" media. We welcome submissions concerning the production, distribution, exhibition, and/or reception of educational, industrial, and other institutional film, video, television, audio, and new media, past and present. Topics and approaches may include, but are not limited to:
Examples of educational, industrial, and useful media:
- media used by religious institutions, civic organizations, NGOs, unions, libraries, governments, and prisons
- training films, videos, and software
- closed-circuit television in educational contexts
- sponsored films and institutional advertising
- ambient music within institutional settings (malls, factories, restaurants, waiting rooms)
- audio/visual materials in museum and factory tours
- medical films
- other institutional uses of sound media (records, podcasts, etc.)
- audiovisual and applied media in scientific and social scientific research
Approaches to studying useful media:
- reception, compulsory viewing, and resistant readings
- audiovisual aesthetics and stylistic trends
- useful media and emotional engagement
- production cultures of industrial media
- histories of key practitioners and production houses
- policy and educational media
- useful media and ideology
- representation in educational and industrial media
- educational and industrial media as "found footage"
- institutional media, architectural design, and spatial politics
Submissions should be between 6,000 and 7,500 words (approximately 20-25 pages double-spaced), in Chicago style. Please submit an electronic copy of the paper, along with a one-page abstract, both saved as a Microsoft Word file; remove any identifying information so that the submission is suitable for anonymous review. The journal's Editorial Board will referee all submissions. Send electronic manuscripts and/or any questions to thevelvetlighttrap@gmail.com. All submissions are due September 15, 2012. The full call is available at www.utexas.edu/utpress/journals/jvlt.html.
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