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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
... as Asian or Asian American. 24 conflates East Asians, Asian Americans, and West Asian ethnic groups together by representing all three as users as well as subjects of digital imaging technologies. Camera Obscura 2009 Lisa Nakamura is a research professor at the Institute of Communication Research...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Juliana Chang This essay explicates how Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) and Linda Low (Nancy Kwan), the Asian migrant and Asian American female leading characters in the film Flower Drum Song (dir. Henry Koster, US, 1961), oscillate between embodying the fantasies of American modernity and exposing...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
.... Such democratization, proponents argue, negates and thus frees us from the embodied particulars of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. This perspective is rooted in and reproduces neoliberal assumptions about bodily transcendence and freedom. Drawing on several Asian American and British Asian blogs, Pham analyzes...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 135–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Thomas Foster This essay analyzes a postcyberpunk science fiction story by Ted Chiang, an Asian American writer. The story speculates on the technological manipulation of visual perception through the direct modification of visual processing structures in the human brain. It focuses...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
... ensemble, Modern Family relationally racializes Asian American, Latinx, and Black recurring and side characters through performances of cultural capital. Their differences deviate from the sexual modernity represented by the program’s core white families. Despite the token representations of racial...
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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 (2019) 34 (2): 163–193.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of freedom, belonging, and coexistence beyond European and North American contexts. Like Butler, the author relies on a claim about temporality but argues that the plural temporalities of Southeast Asian modernities allow for different relations between minority and majority populations and between notions...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
... production, which helped to sustain these particular racial fictions. Copyright © 2017 Camera Obscura 2017 yellowface Audrey Hepburn Mickey Rooney whiteness Asian American Figure 1. Mickey Rooney as Mr. I. Y. Yunioshi in
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961).
Paramount...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 151–179.
Published: 01 May 2004
...James Kim Camera Obscura 2004 James Kim earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in August 2003, specializing in both Asian American studies and eighteenth-century British studies. He is currently enjoying a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Pomona College, after which...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Review of Film and Video, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context , and Film Quarterly . Wong’s dragon lady costume was condemned by Chinese
nationalists and raved about in American publicity
writings.
The Art of Screen Passing:
Anna May Wong’s Yellow
Yellowface...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 119–129.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Eve Oishi Camera Obscura 2003 Eve Oishi is associate professor of women's studies at California State University, Long Beach. Her research is on Asian American, experimental, and queer film/video and literature. She is working on a book titled The Memory Village: Fakeness and the Family...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of English at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video (Duke University Press, 2002), the editor of Screening Asian Americans (Rutgers University Press, 2002), and a co-editor of Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 226–230.
Published: 01 December 1989
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American community in the U.S. I’ve become particularly interested
in how women viewers relate to the figure of the warrior heroine (a
staple within many Asian popular culture traditions) and why she is
such an enduring figure. I’ve also become interested in Hollywood’s...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2005
... silent film arguably became a primary site of a localized
visual culture, forging new languages appropriate to the experi-
ence of Asian modernities. Far from the Euro-American center
of film production, Asian cinemas in the late 1920s and 1930s,
both silent and sound, enacted a complex dialogue...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 161.
Published: 01 September 1993
...
a dissertation entitled “Managing Masculinity: Race and Psychoanalysis in
Asian American Literature.”
Tara McPherson is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT where she
teaches courses in media and literature. This article is a portion of her manu-
script, “Reconstructing Dixie: Race...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... is an assistant professor in the Asian American Studies Program and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Ngô's scholarship concerns the remains of war and empire in spaces of culture. “Imperial Blues,” a book manuscript, expands on analytics of urban space...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
... both a past and a future imbued with fantasies of love and being loved in return. Mimi Thi Nguyen is an associate professor of gender and women's studies and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her first book is The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other...
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 86–103.
Published: 01 September 1985
... Festival, the Robert Flaherty Film
Seminar, the Women’s International Film Festival, the Asian American
Film Festival (national tour), the §an Francisco Film Festival, the Amer-
ican Film Institute and the Film in the Cities Symposium.
Trinh’s first book, Un Art sans oezlvre...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
...: Dramatists Play
Service, 1998). Richard Fung’s important essay on Asians in
American gay porn also accentuates the argument that the
sexually passive gay Asian figure has permeated the libidinal
imaginary of the white homoerotic gaze of Asian men. Richard
Fung, “Looking...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 7–35.
Published: 01 May 2009
... into completely knowable entities. Impor-
tantly, this making of the face completely knowable also racializes
the terrorist as Asian and Asian American. Terror TV justifies racist
stereotyping by representing “both West Asians and East Asians as
spies, permanent aliens whose loyalties are always...
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