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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Xin Peng Abstract This article provides a comparative study of Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa—the two most iconic stars of Asian descent of American cinema's silent era—by examining the reception history around their rare collaboration, the early sound film and yellow peril thriller Daughter...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 85–117.
Published: 01 September 2014
... at the camera in the
closing instants of the film.
12. For an excellent study of the silent Bridget films, see Peter
Flynn, “How Bridget Was Framed: The Irish Domestic in Early
American Cinema, 1895 – 1917,” Cinema Journal 50, no. 2 (2011):
1 – 20...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in the United States, which Claire Jean Kim points out in her “racial triangulation” theory, might explain why in US-American silent cinema the Asian is granted visibility only to index outsideness, while in the Brazilian case there is no Asian representation at all, because what was at stake was not mere...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2014
... in movement that suggested sensual-
ity, athleticism, and sometimes even androgyny” (111). Moreover,
Hong Kong cinema’s fascination with foreign dance styles finds a
distant echo in the “dance Orientalism” that Studlar identifies as a
distinctive feature of American silent cinema. The Scheherazades...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2005
... on the intertextual and
intercultural complexity of the global image culture in which the
names and bodies of these stars circulated.
Furthermore, once the focus shifts away from the Euro-
American centers of film production, the periodization of silent
cinema also necessarily shifts. In both China...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 31–71.
Published: 01 May 2002
...” spectacle.
Copyright © 2002 by Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura 49, Volume 17, Number 1
Published by Duke University Press
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32 • Camera Obscura
While African American performers had a long history in the
silent cinema, their opportunities in Hollywood multiplied dur-
ing the first years...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 4–33.
Published: 01 May 1992
... attempts to offer an
African-American critical voice and, despite its problematic (and histor- 3 1
ically-marked) racial rhetoric, does make a sincere effort to address the
problems of racism in the cinema.
40. Robert Herring, “Black Shadows,” Close Up vol. 5, no. 2 (August 1929...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 57–89.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... But despite his
ongoing formal idiosyncrasies, he also demonstrated a continued
preoccupation with gender, subjectivity, and melodrama that is in
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many ways closely aligned with the American cinema. In the Japa-
nese context, these traits, as well as narrative realism itself...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of
the sonic avant-garde into cinema, but they exceeded the standards
allowed by obscenity laws of their time and prevailing conceptions
of acceptable sexuality. The seminal period 1963 – 64 might be the
queerest time in American film history: in addition toChristmas
on Earth, Jack Smith’s Flaming...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 83–111.
Published: 01 December 2001
...
and Cinema: A Critical Anthology, ed. Karyn Kay and Gerald Peary
(New York: Dutton, 1977), 86.
37. Lois Banner, Women in Modern America: A Brief History (New York:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 197.
38. Robert L. Daniel, American Women in the Twentieth Century: The
Festival...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 77–111.
Published: 01 May 2004
.... W. Murnau and American continuity editing in
the tradition of D. W. Griffith. Expressionists held that the
essence of cinema was the nonverbal quality of the pure image,
which could produce the greatest emotional impact. Many avant-
garde advocates of this aesthetic believed...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 188–190.
Published: 01 May 2003
... 2003 Books Received
Alter, Nora M. Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema,
1967–2000. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Bachman, Gregg, and Thomas J. Slater, eds. American Silent Film:
Discovering Marginalized Voices. Carbondale: Southern Illinois...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 229–263.
Published: 01 December 2001
...-
ema in the West and China, despite their divergent circumstances,
motivations, and applications, offers an opportune moment to
relocate early Chinese cinema in a broader cinematic modernity.
The divergent origins of the term in Euro-American and Chinese
contexts, and the discrepancies...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 59–81.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and American Culture: The Silent Era (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1994); Judith Mayne, Directed by Dorothy Arzner
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994); Annette Kuhn,
Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (London: Verso,
1995); Heide Schlüpmann, “Cinema...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 91–127.
Published: 01 December 2005
... d’Arc Eiga ¯raio
(Cinema Passage) 5 (1929): 51.
57. Mary Ann Doane, “The Close-Up: Scale and Detail in the
Cinema,” Differences, 14, no. 3 (2003): 97 – 104.
58. Tom Gunning, D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative
Film: The Early Years at Biograph (Urbana...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 137–141.
Published: 01 December 1989
... in the world of
American and French film scholarship. The founding assumptions
about history and the body in Italian cinema can be better understood
if we turn, for a moment, away from the two models generally used
to discuss identification and narrative -the Lacanian...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 174–178.
Published: 01 September 1991
... Criticism edited by Peter Lehman.
Florida State University Press, 1990.
Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema edited by Lester D.
Friedman. University of Illinois Press, 1991. $18.95.
Hollywood Shot by Shot: Alcoholism in American Cinema by Norman...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 169–174.
Published: 01 December 1989
...
a potentially autonomous public formation and, if so, which were the
conditions that enabled as well as circumscribed that possibility?
I have pursued some of these questions in my forthcoming study on
American silent film, Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American
Silent...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 223–233.
Published: 01 December 1982
... to the format of the traditional American
academic conference, buttressed by an ideology of liberalism and
pluralism. This resistance was also the source of a great deal of criti-
cism (revolving around charges of elitism, party-line politics, a mon-
opoly by Lacanian psychoanalysis, etc. I...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 193–231.
Published: 01 December 2005
... featuring a female
knight-errant, which first appeared on the 1920s silent screen and
had a lasting influence in Chinese cinema. In highlighting the
neglected presence of American serial queen films in the 1910s
and 1920s Chinese entertainment world, I question the cultural
essentialist association...
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