A peer-reviewed journal of film, television and new media collectively edited by graduate students at UT Austin and UW-Madison.
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The Velvet Light Trap is a peer-reviewed journal of film, television and new media, published twice a year by the University of Texas Press in Austin. It is collectively edited by graduate students in media studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with support from faculty at both schools and elsewhere.
The journal describes a traditional commitment to American film history and criticism, widened over time to television, adjacent institutions and the media of other countries, and it invites work on subjects past scholarship neglected. Recent issues mix research articles with book reviews. This research did not find a documented account, outside Wikipedia, of the journal's founding or of when UT Austin students joined the editorial collective.