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The Interpellations of Interpolation; or, The Disintegrating Female Musical Body
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 89–111.
Published: 01 May 2008
... Gesamtkunstwerk , a poetic concept that also “integrates” music through the taming of female musical bodies. Though Bertolt Brecht's sophisticated critique of the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk adumbrates a useful direction for understanding the generic disintegration of the musical, Brecht, too, ultimately resists...
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Lena Horne's Impersona
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 11–45.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of audience and performer; and, following Bertolt Brecht, what we can think of as “third-person singing.” Horne's aloofness illuminates a historically vexed connection between public intimacy and hostility to suggest that as much as intimacy could be a resource for individual and collective transformation...
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“Actors Simply Explode”: To Act in the Cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 93–117.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 2016 actors nonprofessional actors voice speech punctuation Bertolt Brecht Figure 1. Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations, dir. Jean-Marie
Straub and Danièle Huillet, West Germany and France, 1984)
“Actors Simply Explode”:
To Act in the Cinema
of Jean-Marie Straub...
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The Commodification of Romanticism: Lola Montès
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 1–25.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of books on film and culture for Columbia University Press. From 1978 to 1986, he was a colleague of Andrew Sarris at Columbia University. © 2015 by Camera Obscura 2015 Andrew Sarris Bertolt Brecht Romantic myth Cinema-Scope Eastman Color copyright Figure 1. The Mammoth Circus displays...
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Julia Lesage
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 219–226.
Published: 01 December 1989
... political and aesthetic philosophy derived from
Bertolt Brecht, who wrote that the function of the work of art was to
divide audiences along class (for me, gender) lines. The outrage I
expressed in “The Human Subject-You, Me, or He?” came from
reading an analysis of viewership which found...
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Historical Critique and History as Criticism
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 1988
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to a "natural" art of the cinema. Cabiers instead glorified the decadent
phases of Preminger, Hawks, and Hitchcock; in their own cinema they
looked now to Godard. They showed themselves ready for Bertolt
Brecht. Hillier takes us across the short bridge linking self-conscious•
ness...
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Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's ‘Accompaniment for a Cinematographic Scene’:Straub/Huillet: Brecht: Schoenberg
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 34–49.
Published: 01 September 1977
... of culture have played out
their role, and are become elements of unculture. But there are other
elements that remain which are in difficulty and which we need to de-
fend Totake over culture means to transform it decisively.
Bertolt Brecht
Jean-Marie Straub...
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Agnès Varda: Photography and Early Creative Process
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 215–229.
Published: 01 May 2021
... photographs for La Pointe Courte (France, 1954). Courtesy of Rosalie Varda Figure 4. Agnès Varda's scouting photographs for La Pointe Courte (France, 1954). Courtesy of Rosalie Varda Varda has indicated she was influenced by Bertolt Brecht, whose ideas she encountered through Vilar, and Philippe...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2008
... women’s bodies and voices to “disintegrate” the so-
called integrated musical, even as these musicals attempt “to make
the musical diva submissive to the musical book.” Tracing these ten-
sions between women’s bodies/voices and “the text” from Richard
Wagner to Bertolt Brecht to contemporary...
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Věra Chytilová's The Fruit of Paradise : A Tale of a Feminine Aesthetic, Dancing Color, and a Doll Who Kills the Devil
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 65–91.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of
estrangement and defamiliarization in the audience. As Bertolt
Brecht articulates the concept, “the artist’s object [should be] to
appear strange and even surprising to the audience. . . . Everyday
things are thereby raised above the level of the obvious and auto-
matic.”23 However, the means...
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Aural Topographies of Migration in Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 93–127.
Published: 01 December 2007
... in this context
embodies the utopian potential Bertolt Brecht once anticipated for
the radio if shifted from being an apparatus of distribution to one
of communication: “The radio would be the fnest possible com-
munication apparatus in public life, a vast network of pipes . . . if
it knew how to receive...
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Reconstructing Documentary: Connie Hatch's Representational Resistance
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 112–147.
Published: 01 September 1985
..., it is about the
conditions of politicized photographic practice as they have been
theorized in the past by Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin, and how
116 those conditions have been modified in the present as a consequence of
new theoretical infusions and with respect to changed historical...
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Selling a Rebellion: The Industrial Logic of Mainstream Alt-Porn
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 29–61.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., the videographer), who is also a character with
whom she is, or will be, having sex.47 This convention allows view-
ers to stand in for the cameraman as though they too are being
seduced. It thereby functions primarily to reinforce, rather than
inhibit, what Bertolt Brecht, in a much different context...
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History Is Not a Matter of Generations: Interview with Harun Farocki
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 47–75.
Published: 01 May 2001
... theory and French Nouvelle Vague
provided early defining inspirations that have remained con-
stant throughout his career; the names Bertolt Brecht, Theodor
Adorno, and Godard could offer embodiment of these directions.
His own works, however, quickly came...
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Too Close, Too Far: Cultural Composition in Straub and Huillet's Too Early, Too Late
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2003
... and Huillet entertain,
however, refers not to the production of an illusionistic “reality
effect” but to a conceptual goal (an “unfilmable” quantity)—to
Bertolt Brecht’s notion of “laying bare the causal network.”12 In
these terms, a realist goal of Too Early, Too Late may not be to cap-
ture scenes...
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The Bachelor's Fantasy: Autoimmunity in Theory
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 103–123.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in existence all around us. Or
consider some of Rancière’s writings on aesthetics: the essence
of unrepresentability has nothing to do with unrepresentability;
or elsewhere, Rancière wants the emancipated spectator, but not
that emancipated spectator, the one about which Antonin Artaud
and Bertolt...
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The Anthropocene as Cinematic View: Time, Matter, and Race in Blade Runner 2049
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of that promise for revolutionary change that had captured the imaginations of Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht. 14 In the constitution of this view, the oft-advocated shift of scale does not entail a radical displacement of the viewpoint, and even less its reconceptualization. It is Charles and Ray...
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Pleasure Aesthetics: On the Art of Mika Rottenberg
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 71–102.
Published: 01 September 2024
... (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 25–26. 27. Rottenberg, Easypieces , 21–22, 24. 26. Bertolt Brecht, “A Short Organum for the Theatre,” in Brecht on Theatre: The Development of An Aesthetic , ed. John Willett (New York: Hill and Wang, 1964). 25. David Graeber, Bullshit...
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Putting Things to the Test: Reconsidering Portrait of Jason
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., mixnyc.org/23/about.php.
31. Stephen Kent Jusick, “Gay Art Guerillas: Interview with Jim
Hubbard and Sarah Schulman,” in That’s Revolting: Queer
Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, ed. Matt Bernstein Sycamore
(Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2004), 50.
32. Bertolt Brecht, Brecht...
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General Bibliography
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 336–372.
Published: 01 December 1989
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Braudel, Fernand. On History. Translated by Sarah Matthews. Chicago: Uni-
versity of Chicago Press, 1980.
-. La Mediterranke: L‘Espace et l’histoire. Paris: Flammarion, 1985.
Brecht, Bertolt. Sur le cinkma. Paris: L‘Arche, 1970a.
-. Sur le rkalisme. Paris: L‘Arche, 1970b.
Brooks, Jodi...
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