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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2019
... culture into a depoliticized and male-centered masculine practice and Zhang’s insistence on sociopolitically engaged filmmaking as China moved toward a market economy. Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019 Chinese women’s cinema Chinese feminism Zhang Nuanxin Sacrificed Youth the Cultural...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 4–7.
Published: 01 September 1988
... concerns are culturally specific.
Chinese women are largely unaware of what feminism means in the
West, although many of them have heard of the term. It came as an
unpleasantsurprise to ZhangNuanxinto discover thatWestern women
had difficulties entering the same professions as men, something she
has...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2012
... for homosexuality in the Chinese diaspora. The four videos ( Myth(s) of Creation, Mother/Land, Movements East-West , and [os] ) that make up Xin Lu: A Travelogue in Four Parts combine memoir with a meditation on the discursive construction of travel narratives. Building on Ma's earlier work ( Toc Storee and Slanted...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2005
... in the international culture marketplace.
— Rey Chow, Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography,
and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Feminist film historiography has become a dynamic site of schol-
arly activity in which the screen is indeed “a new type of ethno-
graphic picture,” one...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
...
to both the loose usage and the overvaluation of the term trans
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nationalism (7). Wang, meanwhile, reengages long-standing debates
of transnational feminism and links them to film scholarship in
the introduction to her collection Chinese Women’s Cinema: Trans-
national...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 75–101.
Published: 01 September 1993
...
improbable state. In both their “missed encounters” with their pasts,
Chinese “tradition” and western “modernity” for both Fleur and the
Hong Kong colony seem to be less separate and separated and more
the source of a prolonged and an unresolved anxiety.
Ghostly Warriors: (Post)feminism in (Post...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 373–377.
Published: 01 December 1989
... Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 ooks Received 3 73
Feminism and Film Theory edited by Constance Penley. Routledge, 1988.
$13.95.
Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Tel...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of gay men in the exotic glow
of traditional Chinese opera, one can only speculate. But it seems
clear that Farewell My Concubine has played its role in reifying the
figure of the feminized gay Chinese man, a stereotype David Henry
Hwang has so effectively critiqued through his play M. Butterfly...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 155.
Published: 01 September 1988
...
theory. He has published most recently in New German Critique and Screen
on, film theory and critical theory.
Dudley Andrew is Director of the Institute for Cinema and Culture at the
University of Iowa. He is finishing a book on poetic realism.
Chris Berry is a scholar of Chinese film. He has...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 134–141.
Published: 01 January 1989
... the Festival hungry for that time when
French films were really doing something different.
This year the Festival took risks. This year I saw something different:
I saw a South Korean Resnais-like ghost story (Lee Chang-Ho’s The
Man With Three Cofins),a Chinese Fifth Generation love story/fable...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Obscura
Meanwhile, as he dies, Song, Gallimard’s Chinese madame/mon-
sieur, heads back to China on a passenger plane, saddened but
safely released from the Orientalist myth. The Orientalist myth
that begins with feminizing/fetishizing the Oriental Other thus
flips to the opposite pole...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 149–151.
Published: 01 May 1993
... Press, 1994. $45.00.
Tendencies by Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick. Duke University Press, 1993. $15.95.
Women’s Pictures: Feminism and Cinema by Annette Kuhn. Verso, 1993.
$17.95.
In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political
Construction of Gender in Postwar America...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 1–7.
Published: 01 December 2001
... female figures who have received only cursory
attention in the histories of cinema, including stunt star Pearl
White, the iconic French performer Musidora, the imported
European vamp Pola Negri, the flapper heroine Colleen Moore,
and the Chinese star Xuan Jinglin. Other essays revisit canonical
stars...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 174–178.
Published: 01 September 1991
... by Jane Giles. BFI Publishing,
distributed by Indiana University Press, 1991. $29.95.
Perspectives on Chinese Cinema edited by Chris Berry. BFI Publishing, dis-
tributed by Indiana University Press, 1991. $21.95.
InsidelOut: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories edited by Diana Fuss. Routledge,
1991...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of codependence among various gendered, sexualized, and racialized groups, between the US and its overseas market, and between China and the US. Victor Fan is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and the World Cinemas Program at McGill University, specializing in Chinese cinema...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Drum Song
and Specters of Modernity
Juliana Chang
The showgirl’s striptease in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammer-
stein’s Chinese American musical Flower Drum Song (dir. Henry
Koster, US, 1961) is risqué to be sure, but the scandalous nature
of the scene lies not in the success...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2022
... mixing “evoke, however remotely, the threat of ‘white-yellow’ miscegenation.” 55 Chung's study on the romantic coupling of Philip Ahn and Anna May Wong shows how Ahn was promoted as a Chinese actor prior to 1941 to mask his “exceptional Korean heritage” so that a “comfortable, homogeneous ‘Chinese...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 32–41.
Published: 01 September 1988
... characteristic, and
that is that they like talking to themselves,fantasizing and remembering
a lot. Especially Chinese women. They internalize a lot. You can even
see that in small children. The girl in Army Nurse is very typical. Men
are trained to be logical, but women seem to be more...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 321–322.
Published: 01 September 1991
..., eighties
cinema, and recent film theory that investigates what it means to represent
gender subjectivity as an apparatus.
Rey Chow teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She is the author of Woman and Chinese
Modernity: the Politics...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 4–33.
Published: 01 September 1996
... (New York: Penguin Books, 1971), it is Mary
Daly who is best-known for her analysis of patriarchal violence that
includes "Indian" suttee, "Chinese" footbinding, and "African" genital
mutilation. See Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (Bos...
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