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Yellowness as Transpacific Technology: Cinematic Regimes of Race between Japan and Brazil
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2024
... evoked by Japanese avant-gardist Murayama Tomoyoshi, Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy ( Gion no Kyodai , Japan, 1934), and the framing of Asian American stars Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa in the Brazilian film magazine Cinearte . The illustration that accompanies Murayama's essay “Foreign Cinema...
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Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
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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 (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2005
...
nationalism converged in the star images of Asian American
stars Anna May Wong and Tsuru Aoki. While their hybrid identi-
ties suggested exciting new configurations and possibilities, they
were also criticized by both American and Asian constituencies
for transgressing cultural norms. Asian stars...
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The Many Lives of Mr. Yunioshi:: Yellowface and the Queer Buzz of Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
... offensiveness.10
After World War II, an ambivalent vogue for racial authen-
ticity ran through Hollywood. The mid- 1950s to the early 1960s saw
the rise of the Asian American star through actors like Nancy Kwan
and James Shigeta. Both garnered leading roles in this period,
including romantic leads...
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The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong's Yellow Yellowface Performance in the Art Deco Era
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... faced extreme uncertainty in terms of their socio-
political positioning in American society. Unlike the European
stars whose “probationary” whiteness confused neat classification
when they were imported into Hollywood,12 the all-too-visible
racial difference of Asian Americans worked to reinforce...
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The Americanization of Tsuru Aoki: Orientalism, Melodrama, Star Image, and the New Woman
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 129–157.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of
European-American actresses. The temporary transformations
of actresses including Helen Jerome Eddy, Mary Pickford, Shirley
Mason, Viola Dana, Norma Talmadge, and Alla Nazimova
into Asian characters are detailed in fan magazines as exciting
opportunities to explore what it would...
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Muscles and Subjectivity: A Short History of the Masculine Body in Hong Kong Popular Culture
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 104–125.
Published: 01 September 1996
... it on to demonstrate that he was bigger than the Asian star. For
a while, the show was full of jokes about bodies. I felt embarrassed
afterwards. In front of the American audience, Chan played the role
of silent film comedian or cartoon character. I worried about his
106 representativeness for Hong Kong. Would...
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Reality Moms, Real Monsters: Transmediated Continuity, Reality Celebrity, and the Female Grotesque
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 11–39.
Published: 01 May 2015
... American men, including rappers Ray J and Kanye West and basketball stars Humphries and Lamar Odom. Talking about Reality Moms, Real Monsters 27 the Kardashians as fake and sexually perverse, then, also carries with it racist charges that resonate as hate speech that is used to censure the Kardashian...
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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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The Legend of the White-and-Yellow Black Man: Global Containment and Triangulated Racial Desire in Romeo Must Die
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 151–179.
Published: 01 May 2004
... dilemma:
the more visible Asian American difference becomes, the more
ruthlessly will it be subsumed into a normative system of oppres-
sive racial iconographies. The large disciplinary claim of this
essay is that in response to this dilemma, Asian American studies
must begin to cultivate a double...
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Cinderella Man: Russell Crowe as Il Diva
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 47–67.
Published: 01 May 2008
... University's School for New Learning, where he teaches in media and cultural studies. In his current book project he compares East Asian, South American, and Middle Eastern cinematic perspectives on history and identity following periods in which creative liberties were suspended by oppressive political...
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From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of Nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema, 1927-1931
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 193–231.
Published: 01 December 2005
... and high
modernist appropriation of American adventure films that was
combined with nationalist sentiment. This discourse intersects in
important ways with the extraordinary female body in martial arts
filmmaking. I will conclude with a case study of Huaju nüxia films
starring Wu Suxin...
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An Editing Room of One's Own: Vidding as Women's Work
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 123–130.
Published: 01 September 2011
... includes set design, costumes, and props
but also a few highly stereotyped Asian extras. Not a single mem-
ber of the large main cast is Asian, although the show’s universe
is purportedly half Chinese, and characters speak an English-
Chinese patois.
A vid can also keep...
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Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 155.
Published: 01 September 1988
... cinema.
Richard deCordova teaches film and television studies at DePaul University.
He is currently completing a book on the early star system in the American
cinema.
Anne Friedberg teaches in the Film Studies Program at the University of
California at Irvine. She is currently working...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
... be further illuminated by other productions by Sum-
mit Entertainment. For example, another lm starring Pattinson,
Remember Me, is less a story about New York itself than a global
imagining of America under with the key parts played by
non- American actors; The Hurt Locker (dir. Kathryn Bigelow...
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Female Surrogate Labor and White Corporeal Debt in Singin’ in the Rain
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of Indigenous Hawaiian, Spanish, and African American social dance are eruptions of jazz dance's multiracial sources. Before they were recorded on film, these “racialized gestural vocabularies” circulated between the nondiegetic, off-screen bodies of Haney, Coyne, and Cole and the diegetic, on-screen star...
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A Brief History of the M s in SCMS
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 159–165.
Published: 01 December 2006
... media stars, independent film and video production, German cinema, and the cultural impact of media institutions. Her current project focuses on the US reception of Asian films in the 1950s and 1960s. Appearing from left to right: (front row)
Lucy Fischer, E. Ann Kaplan, Patricia White;
(middle...
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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen : The Actress As Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Film Culture
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 229–263.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Zhang Zhen Camera Obscura 2001 Zhang Zhen is an assistant professor of cinema studies at New York University. Her critical and creative writings have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Public Culture, Asian Cinema, Cinema and Urban Culture in China 1922-1943...
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Hong Kong Mambo
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2014
... musicals of the late 1950s: narratively severing the music’s
associations with juvenile delinquency, sexual release, and working-
class and African American culture.15
Mambo Girl establishes the key traits that would come to
define Chang’s star persona: her multifaceted musical genius and
her...
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Breeding Unity: Battlestar Galactica 's Biracial Reproductive Futurity
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of those killed and displaced during
colonial settlement. Wrede blithely asserts that the Bering Strait
migration caused the extinction of megafauna and, by eliminating
the development of Native American peoples, sets the stage for
conquistadors and settlers in covered wagons to slaughter gigantic...
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