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Notes on India Song

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Marguerite Duras, Susan Suleiman
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 42–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2-3_6-42
Published: 01 December 1980
...Marguerite Duras; Susan Suleiman © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 ∗Translated and published with permission of Editions Albatros, from “Notes sur India Song,” Marguerite Duras (Paris: Editions Albatros, 1975). Notes on India Song* Marguerite Duras I make films to occupy my...
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India's Daughter : It Is Time to Retire the Realist Rape Documentary

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Nandini Sikand
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 119–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10654927
Published: 01 September 2023
..., who similarly became the subject of news stories, films, performances, and a TV series. It examines the BBC's commissioned documentary film India's Daughter (dir. Leslee Udwin, 2015) as an example of how the aesthetics of realism can sensationalize sexual assault, engender a spectatorial complicity...
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Figure 1. India's Daughter (dir. Leslee Udwin, UK, 2015). Courtesy of Women Make Movies

India's Daughter (dir. Leslee Udwin, UK, 2015). Courtesy of Women Make Mov...

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Published: 01 September 2023
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Figure 2. India's Daughter (dir. Leslee Udwin, UK, 2015). Courtesy of Women Make Movies

India's Daughter (dir. Leslee Udwin, UK, 2015). Courtesy of Women Make Mov...

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Published: 01 September 2023
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Figure 3. India's Daughter (dir. Leslee Udwin, UK, 2015). Courtesy of Women Make Movies

India's Daughter (dir. Leslee Udwin, UK, 2015). Courtesy of Women Make Mov...

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Published: 01 September 2023
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A Feminist Still: Documentary Form and Untimely Critique in Sheba Chhachhi’s Protest Photography

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Lakshmi Padmanabhan
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631535
Published: 01 December 2020
...Lakshmi Padmanabhan What can photographic form teach us about feminist historiography? Through close readings of photographs by visual artist and documentary photographer Sheba Chhachhi, who documented the struggle for women’s rights in India from the 1980s onward, this article outlines...
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Immaterial Child Labor: Media Advocacy, Autoethnography, and the Case of Born into Brothels

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Pooja Rangan
Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-012
Published: 01 December 2011
... is a reading of Born into Brothels , an award-winning film documenting the codirector and photojournalist Zana Briski's humanitarian project to emancipate the children of prostitutes in India by training them in photography and creating avenues for them to sell their own photographs of brothel life. A close...
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Pinkface

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John Greyson
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 145–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1597240
Published: 01 September 2012
... efforts, be they in South Africa, Chile, or India. John Greyson is a Toronto video artist/filmmaker whose features, shorts, and installations include Fig Trees (Best Documentary Teddy, Berlin Film Festival, 2009), Proteus (Diversity Award, Barcelona Gay Lesbian Film Festival, 2004), Lilies...
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Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai?/What Is behind the Stardom? Madhuri Dixit, the Production Number, and the Construction of the Female Star Text in 1990s Hindi Cinema

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Usha Iyer
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 129–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3160674
Published: 01 December 2015
... Dixit, the leading dancer-actress of the time. It tracks the kinesthetic history of the Dixit star text from Tezaab ( Acid , dir. N. Chandra, India, 1988) to her most recent films and television shows and examines how her brazenly sensuous dance numbers have transformed the construction of the female...
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Interview with Paromita Vohra: Remaking the “Political” in Social Documentary

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Shweta Kishore
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 167–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3776901
Published: 01 May 2017
.... Her films are aesthetically distinct in the context of the formal histories of social documentary in India, which emerged at a moment of political crisis and subsequently came to be associated with instrumental use in education, advocacy, and public address. For Vohra, the textual stability...
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An Interview with the Artist Radha May: A Global Collective with a Single Identity

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Elisa Giardina Papa, Nupur Mathur, Bathsheba Okwenje
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 177–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3662084
Published: 01 December 2016
...Elisa Giardina Papa; Nupur Mathur; Bathsheba Okwenje This article features an interview with the artist Radha May, a global, artist collective working under a single female identity. Radha May, whose members come from India, Italy, and Uganda, talks about merging three different perspectives...
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The Unicorn and the Larva: In Conversation

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Anuj Vaidya, Tejal Shah
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 154–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631619
Published: 01 December 2020
... special attention to their process, their shared love for drag and camp, and to the complicated reception to their work. While Tejal returned to India soon after, the pair continued to remain in conversation over the decades, even as their own practices meandered into questions of gender performance...
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Memory and Melodrama: The Transnational Politics of Deepa Mehta's Earth

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Jeanette Herman
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 107–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-20-1_58-107
Published: 01 May 2005
...Jeanette Herman Camera Obscura 2005 Jeanette Herman received her PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation is a comparative analysis of how images of suffering bodies have been used to articulate structures of domination in colonial India and Ireland...
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The Cinema of Lol V. Stein

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Elisabeth Lyon
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 6–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2-3_6-6
Published: 01 December 1980
... of Lo1 V. Stein. L.e Ravissement de Lo1 V. Stein India Song is part of what has been called in Marguerite Duras’s work the “Indian” cycle,’ a group of three novels and three films which all transform and repeat a single story. That story, like...
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Editorial

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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 3–5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2-3_6-3
Published: 01 December 1980
... © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 Editorial Although Marguerite Duras is well-known and influential in France- India Song has been playmg continuously in Paris since it was released in 1975, and several books and special issues of magazines devoted to her work have appeared in French...
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Bollywood in Drag: Moulin Rouge! and the Aesthetics of Global Cinema

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Sangita Gopal, Sujata Moorti
Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 29–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-009
Published: 01 December 2011
..., 2001) begins with Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin’s chance encounter with a Hindi film while on a research trip to northern India in 1995. First, Luhrmann is captivated by Bollywood cinema’s generic promiscuity, which appears to con- trast sharply with the narrational logic of Hollywood cinema...
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Marguerite Duras: Bibliography/Filmography

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Elisabeth Lyon
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 50–53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2-3_6-50
Published: 01 December 1980
... Navire Night) or were written with various representationsin mind (such as India Song-texte-thkitre- film)and are therefore sometimes listed as theater, novels, or film sce- narios (such as De‘truire, dit-elle). In some cases, adaptations of novels or scenarios have been filmed by other...
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Women Working

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Chantal Akerman, Christina Creveling
Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 137–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1-2_2-137
Published: 01 September 1977
..., was chosen as one of the official French entries at the Cannes Film Festival. All this happened at a time when another of her films, India Song, was 141 beginning its third year of continuous showing at a Left Bank cinema, and still another film, Son Nom de Venise dans Calcutta Desert, was ending a nine...
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Editorial: Feminism, Fiction and the Avant-Garde

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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 3–4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1-2-3-1_3-4-3
Published: 01 May 1979
... and the Avant-Garde.” As preparation for the conference, in the three weeks preceding it, the Co-op had screened several films which have been important to our work: Yvonne Rainer’s Film About a Woman Who.. ., Jackie Raynal’s Deux Fois, Chantal Akerman’s News from Home, Marguerite Duras’s India Song...
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Editorial

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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 3–5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3-1_7-3
Published: 01 May 1981
.... From the vantage point of a different and suggestive textual sys- tem, Lea Jacobs approaches the elusive question raised in previous analyses of films as different as Psycho, The Pirate, The Most Dangerous Game, and India Song-the relationship between a textual system of enunciation, woman’s...
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