The Velvet Light Trap

In this Issue

View Formatted Version

Reclaiming the Freak: Michael Jackson and the Spectacle of Identity

Racquel J. Gates

pp. 3-4

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0078

Hannah Montana’s Bare, Unprotected Back: Miley Cyrus’s Vanity Fair Outing

James Kincaid

pp. 5-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0081

Stardom, Celebrity, and the Money Form

Barry King

pp. 7-19

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0084

Underexposed Overexposure: One Night in Paris

Minette Hillyer

pp. 20-21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0087

Slumdog Celebrities

Priya Jaikumar

pp. 22-24

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0070

Star Testing: The Emerging Politics of Celebrity Gossip

Julie A. Wilson

pp. 25-38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0073

Toxic: The Implosion of Britney Spears’s Star Image

Moya Luckett

pp. 39-41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0077

Tom Cruise, the “Couch Incident,” and the Limits of Public Elation

Michael DeAngelis

pp. 42-43

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0080

Populist Celebrity in the Election Campaigns of Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger

A. Freya Thimsen

pp. 44-57

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0083

Dragging Oscar

Fernando Delgado

pp. 58-59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0086

Brangelina: The Fertile Valley of Celebrity

Diane Negra

pp. 60-61

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0069

Death on Display: Reifying Stardom through Hollywood’s Dark Tourism

Linda Levitt

pp. 62-70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0072

Rihanna’s Closed Eyes

Sarah Projansky

pp. 71-73

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0076

Dreaming a Dream: Susan Boyle and Celebrity Culture

Su Holmes

pp. 74-76

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0079

The Pregnant Man

Judith Halberstam

pp. 77-78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0082

Screening Sex (review)

Curran Nault

pp. 79-81

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0085

Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era (review)

Andrew Scahil

pp. 82-83

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0088

Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology (review)

Lisa Schmidt

pp. 84-86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0071

Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child (review)

Lisa Schmidt

pp. 87-89

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0074

Introduction

pp. 1-2

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vlt.0.0075

Previous Issue

Number 64, Fall 2009

Next Issue

Number 66, Fall 2010

Additional Information
ISSN	1542-4251
Print ISSN	0149-1830
Launched on MUSE	2010-02-25
Open Access	No