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Not Your Mother’s Melodrama: Three Twenty-First-Century Women’s Films

E. L. McCallum
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 133–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7584940
Published: 01 September 2019
... as bearers of emotion, and on a crisis in intimate relations, the three films by Chantal Akerman, Claire Denis, and Ann Hui considered here reconsider melodrama’s possibilities. They all broach ways of rethinking Oedipal fantasy, moving beyond a story of the fraught emergence of the individual to one focused...
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The World and the Soup: Historicizing Media Feminisms in Transnational Contexts

Kathleen McHugh
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2009-011
Published: 01 December 2009
...- ryn Bigelow, Antonia Bird,  Jane Campion, Gurinder Chadha, Mar- tha Coolidge, Busi Cortés,  Julie Dash, Claire Denis, Doris Dörrie, Su Friedrich, Bette Gordon, Marleen Gorris, Leslie Harris, Mona Hartoum, Amy Heckerling, Agnieszka Holland, Ann Hui, Barbara Kopple, Diane Kurys, Clara Law, Deepa...
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Introduction: Race and/as Technology; or, How to Do Things to Race

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 7–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2008-013
Published: 01 May 2009
...Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Camera Obscura 2009 Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is associate professor of modern culture and media at Brown University. She has studied both systems design engineering and English literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author...
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Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes, Postfeminism, and the Birth of Social Networking Technologies

Jonathan Cohn
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 151–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2209943
Published: 01 September 2013
... and Digital Media: Pattie Maes, Postfeminism, and the Birth of Social Networking Technologies Jonathan Cohn While N. Katherine Hayles, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, and Sadie Plant have brought to light the central role of women in the cre- ation and use of many of the first computers...
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The Mercator of the Postmodern: Mapping the Great Divide

Anne Friedberg
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 67–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-3_18-67
Published: 01 September 1988
...Anne Friedberg Andreas Huyssen, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Post-modernism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986) Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 The Mercator of the Postmodern: Mapping the Great Divide Anne Friedberg...
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Yellowness as Transpacific Technology: Cinematic Regimes of Race between Japan and Brazil

André Keiji Kunigami
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11365838
Published: 01 December 2024
... indexed by color than by a range of other physiognomic features—which Anne Cheng has expanded to include even objects and surfaces that indicate yellowness as “ornamental.” 3 Here I argue that, if the core of the transpacific technology of yellowness was its malleability, which made it a useful racial...
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The Auto-Tuned Self: Modulating Voice and Gender in Digital Media Ecologies

Lisa Åkervall
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 65–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052802
Published: 01 September 2021
...: A Philosophical Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 531–32. 27. Sianne Ngai, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012). 28. Deleuze, “Postscript,” 4. On the distinction between modulation and molding, see Hui...
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Skin Deep: Josephine Baker and the Colonial Fetish

Anne Anlin Cheng
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 35–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2008-007
Published: 01 December 2008
...Anne Anlin Cheng This article tells the stories of architect Adolf Loos and cabaret/film icon Josephine Baker in order to trace the philosophic intimacy between modernist preoccupation with the nude surface and the staging of exposed, racialized skin in the early twentieth century. The racial...
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In the Shadow

Alessandra Raengo
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 1–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2209907
Published: 01 September 2013
... indexicality functions primarily deictically, as a pointed finger, gesturing beyond itself to its source, which, as Mary Ann Doane reminds us, was always part of Charles Peirce’s conception of the index as both a trace and a shifter.20 It is this second modality of the index that is more powerfully...
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Tactics of Tears: Excess/Erasure in the Gay Chinese Melodramas of Fleeing by Night and Lan Yu

Kenneth Chan
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2008-005
Published: 01 September 2008
... and her suffering. What, then, does it mean for a gay man to find pleasure in the identification with the female character through his tears, especially when, as E. Ann Kaplan puts it, “ ‘complicit’ women’s melodramas are ulti- mately enunciated from a patriarchal position, even if the narrative...
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Zhang Nuanxin and Social Commitment in 1980s Chinese Women’s Experimental Cinema

Lingzhen Wang
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7772363
Published: 01 December 2019
... no. 18 (1988): 8 19; E. Ann Kaplan, Problematizing Cross-Cultural Analysis: The Case of Women in the Recent Chinese Cinema, Wide Angle 11, no. 2 (1989): 40 50; Yuan Ying Feminism and Chinese Women s Cinema Nüquanzhuyi yu zhonguo nüxingdianying), Contemporary Cinema Dangdai dianying), no. 3 (1990...
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Watching Women: Surveillance and Spectatorship in Early Science Fiction Television

Cara Dickason
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 35–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11024057
Published: 01 May 2024
... Media: A History and Theory Reader , 2nd ed., ed. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Anna Watkins Fisher (New York: Routledge, 2016), 649–64; Anna McCarthy, Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001); Hannah Spaulding, “Reinventing Television and Family Life...
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Immaterial Child Labor: Media Advocacy, Autoethnography, and the Case of Born into Brothels

Pooja Rangan
Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-012
Published: 01 December 2011
.... Tara McPherson, “Reload: Liveness, Mobility, and the Web,” in Old Media, New Media: A History and Theory Reader, ed. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Thomas Keenan (London: Routledge, 2006), 202, 205. 170  •  Camera Obscura 5. I refer throughout the article to Briski’s authorial choices...
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Faceblindness, Visual Pleasure, and Racial Recognition: Ethnicity and Technicity in Ted Chiang's “Liking What You See: A Documentary”

Thomas Foster
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 135–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2008-017
Published: 01 May 2009
.... chap. 5, on the shift “from sociobiology to biosociality” in biotechnology. See also Elizabeth Ann Wilson, Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition (New York: Routledge, 1998), for a feminist analysis of the implications of new neurological...
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