Tag: The Velvet Light Trap
Call for Papers | “Sports and/as Media Studies”, Special Issue of The Velvet Light Trap. Call ends January 31, 2020
The Velvet Light Trap #87 seeks to deepen media studies understandings of sports. Given our current era of destabilization (of texts, genres, technologies, industries, distribution models, franchises, policies, etc.), sports undoubtedly remains a stimulus of—and, at times, barrier to—change in the media industries. We invite a variety of media scholars—not just those who specialize in sports media—to reconsider and engage with sports in new and dynamic ways.
Call for Papers | The Velvet Light Trap #77 – Performance and the Body | 2015-01-15
Historically, studies of performance have often been tied to star images, focusing on issues of celebrity in professional, public, and private spaces. As a...