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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2022
... spaces that engaged conversations of racial uplift, which often centered Black girlhood as an especially important site for assessing racial progress. Despite the evolving nature of media platforms themselves, the relationship between media and Black Americans continues to be a tool by which to measure...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Rebecca Wanzo Issa Rae's web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (2011–13), initially posted on YouTube, and Lena Dunham's Girls (HBO, 2012–) are examples of the precarious-girl comedy in the new millennium. These sitcoms depict women experiencing a prolonged girlhood produced not only...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 129–165.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Picture Magazine published a black-and-white pho-
tograph of an attractive girl. She is dressed in a dark tailored
coat with a high collar rimmed with white fur. Her hands are
completely wrapped in a fox pelt, and a hat adorns her coiffed
hair. The girl stands erect, posing for a snapshot...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., such
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as black, dark blue, and dark purple. They also include star-shaped
neck inlays, rather than the daisy-shaped inlays found in the more
youthful models. In other words, these new guitar designs provide
teenage girls with an opportunity to transition out...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 188–190.
Published: 01 May 2003
....
Trans. Susan Wise. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
Bruno, Giuliana. Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film.
New York: Verso, 2002.
Butters, Gerald R., Jr. Black Manhood on the Silent Screen. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Chatterjee, Gayatri. Mother...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 197–227.
Published: 01 December 2001
... for her by French high fash-
ion designer Lanvin. Fashion choices and captions also suggest
that she represents an old-fashioned “nice girl” alternative to the
flapper: she appears in a modest black afternoon frock and hat.42
While such articles do not have Pickford chasing bunnies
à la Griffith...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2005
...-screen meditation on the relationship between
black cultural tradition and the museum, Baltimore (2003), and
the installations in which Chantal Akerman recycles her own
cinematic history (D’est [From the East, 1995] and Woman Sitting
after Killing [2001 Even where there are no explicit intertexts...
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 72–85.
Published: 01 September 1983
... to Markopoulos and has to do with the romance of New
York, and for me, a real love of that whole area in the harbor.
The other thing is that Markopoulos used a blinking format in his films,
in which one image is presented and then it either fades or turns to black.
It gives you a strong sense of rhythm...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and Thalia González, Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls Childhood (Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, 2017), www.law.georgetown.edu/poverty- inequality- center/wp- content /uploads/sites/14/2017/08/girlhood- interrupted.pdf; Aimee Meredith Cox, Shapeshifters: Black Girls...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 12–31.
Published: 01 September 1995
...Deborah R. Grayson My head. Photo by Charles Moore.
Is it Fake?: Black Women’s Hair as Spectacle
and Spec(tac)ular
Deborah R. Grayson
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to
her: for her hair is given her for covering...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 37–61.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Courtney R. Baker Recent African American film scholarship has called for an attention to the structures of black representation on screen. This work echoes the calls made in the 1990s by black feminist film and cultural scholars to resist the allure of reading for racial realism and to develop...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 71–103.
Published: 01 May 2006
... of a
long history of cross-racial ventriloquism in the United States, in
which a particular black person appears in white imagery or is
interpolated into white discourse to serve the communicative and
representational needs of diverse white cultures. The essay traces
the notice’s journey from...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Cultures (forthcoming from Duke University Press). Zoe Leonard, The Fae Richards Photo Archive, 1993–96.
Created for Cheryl Dunye’s film The Watermelon Woman
(1996). From a series of seventy-eight black and white
photographs and notebook of seven pages of typed text on
typewriter paper...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 145–177.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... Next door, the marginally older girls who make up the “advanced” class work with their teacher Tibet on two enterprising projects: first a shot-for-shot remake of a scene from The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1963), and then a nouvelle vague–inspired dreamscape in black-and-white. Fifteen...
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 50–69.
Published: 01 September 1999
... through her vaguely "New
York" accent. Like Independence Day (1996), a film that packaged its
blatantly nationalist agenda (i.e., Americans saving the world from
itself) in the guise of a domestic diversity embodied by its black and
Jewish male leads (Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum), thereby...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of printing.
Unable to pay this fee, Thornton admits to Purity that he wants
to propose marriage but that nancial dif culties hold back his
career. Here the lm cuts to Lamarque’s studio, where the art-
ist tells his friend Luston Black (William Carroll, again playing
the troublemaker) that he...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 1988
... prime-time run. I The show's popularity coincided
with that of other situation comedies based on ethnic working-class family
life-The Goldbergs, depicting the experiences of Jews in the Bronx; Amos
'n Andy, blacks in Harlem; The Honeymooners and Hey Jeannie, Irish
working-class families in Brooklyn...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 108–143.
Published: 01 September 2006
... by the disappearance of fathers in the film’s two
families — one white and one black — brings to light instabilities
of class, race, and family. The death of the African American
mother in the end, coupled with the reappearance of a pivotal
male figure in a central paternal role, reestablishes the bourgeois...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
... arms, thighs, and jutting
breasts, her face obscured but for the black strokes of her lashes
and arched brow. Foreground and background, the photograph
is suffused with a pearly luminosity, though there is no obvious
light source but the white silk ao dai (long dress) itself. We only
know she...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 149–175.
Published: 01 May 2022
... self-confidence, working to interpret his increasingly direct references to queer sexualities and Black Lives Matter onstage, and so on. 33 In this context, “harry in milan” becomes like an episode title under which is grouped the details and fragments of material that fans are using to construct...
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