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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Ashleigh Greene Wade Abstract During the nineteenth and early to mid‐twentieth centuries, the Black press served as a cornerstone of Black social and political life in the United States. For Black Americans, newspapers and magazines functioned as both informational resources and philosophical...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 197–207.
Published: 01 September 2018
... that the urgent, devastating, and nonetheless conventional images of confined black bodies that circulate in prison documentaries consolidate the racialized consensus around innocence and criminality. Drawing these perspectives into conversation, moderator and commentator Paige Sarlin differentiates between...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 8–41.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Mary Carbine Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990
“The Finest Outside the Loop”:
Motion Picture Exhibition in Chicago’s
Black Metropolis, 1905-1928
Mary Carbine
In 1905 the first black-owned movie theater, Motts Pekin Temple,
opened in the section...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 132–141.
Published: 01 December 2020
... not walk into an archive that people already understood as formed or in existence. Deborah Willis: I began some of this work at Temple University, in the library, on the floors reading the books in the open stacks. I would just open up Black Press newspapers and look for photog- raphers, for city...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 134–153.
Published: 01 September 1995
... of the African American popular press, class,
gender, and intraracial differences nuance each reading audience. In
general, these magazines underscored Houston’s upstanding contribu-
tions to her African American community and the music world, and
her strong familial ties, illustrating that the Black...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 73–101.
Published: 01 September 2007
...
was aimed at defining the identities of those it watched. The clip-
pings in Baker’s files were meant to implicate her on the wrong
side of the Cold War.18 As an archive, the 359 pages of FBI files
on Baker draw heavily on clippings from the communist Worker’s
Daily, the black press, and translations...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 6–11.
Published: 01 September 1995
..., Jacqueline. Black Women as Cultural Readers. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1995.
Carson, Diane, Linda Dittmar and Janice Welsch, eds. Multiple Voices in
Feminist Film Criticism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Collins, Patricia. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 1–43.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Photographs and Legacies
of Lynching after 9/11,” American Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2003):
457 – 78; Dora Apel, Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women,
and the Mob (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
2004); Robyn Wiegman, American Anatomies: Theorizing Race...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 37–61.
Published: 01 September 2020
... theory kept alive. 1 Nevertheless, black film studies and black feminism continue to Framing Black Performance: Selma and the Poetics of Representation Courtney R. Baker Camera Obscura 104, Volume 35, Number 2 doi 10.1215/02705346-8359506 © 2020 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 37 38...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 71–113.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and democracy. The struggle against enduring American
racism toward Blacks overshadowed discussions of American anti-
Semitism as the more pressing issue in American culture. Evi-
dence of this newfound central rhetoric appears in the first films...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 11–45.
Published: 01 May 2008
...); and Fred Moten, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the
Black Radical Tradition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2003), 85 – 169.
Lena Horne’s Impersona • 39
4. Hazel V. Carby, Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
... has emerged not only in academic scholarship but also in the popular press. Writer Maurice Dolberry best summarizes the term as an undefined yet understood set of ideas about how black people should live positively and how we should define black American culture. Dolberry explains more specifically...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 31–71.
Published: 01 May 2002
... American performers’ (in)ability to act
situates “real” emotions in “real” black bodies; race supplements
realism, providing firm ground for cinematic signification. At the
same time, the representation of African American performers,
particularly in the popular (white) press, parries the threat...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
...: A Televised Life (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 17. 23. Kristal Brent Zook, Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 15, 18. 24. Phillip Brian Harper, Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 151–179.
Published: 01 May 2004
...James Kim Jet Li in Romeo Must Die (dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak, US, 2000)
The Legend of the White-and-Yellow
Black Man: Global Containment
and Triangulated Racial Desire
in Romeo Must Die
James Kim
How may I touch you across this chasm of flown things?
—Li-Young Lee, The Winged Seed...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
... but one that clearly resonates in the everyday perfor-
Camera Obscura 92, Volume 31, Number 2
doi 10.1215/02705346-3592565 © 2016 by Camera Obscura
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mance culture of African American women as well, was embraced
by black geeks...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 149–183.
Published: 01 September 2014
... University Press, 1990): 59 – 67;
bell hooks, “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators,”
in Diawara, Black American Cinema, 300 – 302; Gloria Gibson-
Hudson, “Aspects of Black Feminist Cultural Ideology in Films
by Black Women Independent Artists,” in Multiple Voices...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 12–31.
Published: 01 September 1995
... the last
five to seven years, in particular, there have been numerous cases
reported in the press regarding Black women who have been suspended
from or lost their jobs because they wear their hair in styles that are
inconsistent with what have been deemed acceptable standards of
beauty...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 108–131.
Published: 01 May 1990
... in rap music produced some of the most im-
portant contemporary black feminist cultural criticism, you would
surely bemoan the death of sexual equality. As Public Enemy’s Chuck
D has warned regarding the mainstream press, “Don’t believe the
hype.” Sexism in rap has been gravely exaggerated...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 1–39.
Published: 01 December 2009
... in lighting” by Griffith, they also systematically engage in, and attempt to disguise, their own insidious racial exploitation, both onscreen and offscreen. Constructed to incite and assuage anxieties about the transgression of boundaries between black and white, male and female, and adult and child, Temple's...
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