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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 167–177.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Documentary Films and Filmmakers,” at Monash University, Australia, in 2016. She has published on Indian documentary cinema in Senses of Cinema, Third Text, Studies in Documentary Film, DOX , and Metro Film and Television Journal . Kishore is currently researching 1970s Indian video collectives...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 119–143.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to be a subject in film and television markets, but I limit my analysis to the BBC's commissioned documentary film India's Daughter to look specifically at the depiction of rape in documentary cinema. While I critique many aspects of the film, I do not support the ongoing ban of the film by the Indian...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
Published: 01 December 2011
... on film.6 Others may find that the critique I make here
is not radical enough — the Born into Brothels project has incited
angered responses from both Indian activists and feminist crit-
ics abroad for ignoring local organizing efforts and for Briski’s
alleged breach of ethical...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 134–141.
Published: 01 January 1989
...
(Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum), a Taiwanese tale of Americanization
(Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Daughter of the Nile), a South African coming-
of-political-age film (Oliver Schmitz’s Mapantsula), and an Indian
street life story (Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay This year I saw a
number of European films which...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
Published: 01 December 2009
... the constraints
of tradition on desire in an extended Indian family. As Mehta con-
ceived it, the story could not take place in Canada, and setting the
production in India, which she did, disqualified her for Canadian
government-supported financing. The film no longer qualified as a
Canadian film, even...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
Published: 01 December 2020
... by an unknown hand; the word on it reads, Figure 5. Sheba Chhachhi, Satyarani, Anti- Dowry Demonstration, Delhi, 1981. Gelatin silver print, 20 × 30 in. Courtesy of the artist 14 Camera Obscura Indian. Other faces are visible within the image, and more arms are raised in protest behind her...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
Published: 01 May 2022
... theorizes affective labor's extractive logic when she observes that the technological conversion of Indian call center workers into their “data double” for the purposes of remotely performing service work entails the production of drained subjectivities. 5 Such arguments emphasize the inequalities...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 202–204.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1999.
Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, and Paul Willeman, eds. Encyclopedia of Indian
Cinema. Rev. ed. London: British Film Institute, 1999.
Sandoval-Sanchez, Alberto, and Nancy Saporta Sternbach...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 81–109.
Published: 01 May 2014
...), who lives
there with his son Mark (Tommy Rettig). Fearing an attack by
“Indians,” the trio begins a treacherous journey by raft down a
river to the nearest settlement. Like Kay, Daingangan also finds
herself abandoned. Following Ten Canoes, she is unable to return
to her past life because...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in Ceci est un message de l’ideologie dominante
(This Is a Message from the Dominant Ideology, Groupe Intervention
Vidéo, Canada, 1975); the occupation of Canada’s Department of
Indian Affairs (now known as Indigenous and Northern Affairs
Canada) by Aboriginal women, which is documented in 100...
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 136–143.
Published: 01 May 1981
... for either positive or negative images which are
then either taken up or rejected by feminist critics. Another paper on
this panel on “Native American Women in the Western,” by Maryann
Oshana, reiterates this position. Oshana’s thesis, that the Western
presents a degraded image of Indian women...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 203–212.
Published: 01 December 2023
... filmmakers that the Indo-Afghan coproduction called Ishq wa dosti , produced in 1946 by Indian filmmakers in India and directed by Reshid Latif, is not considered the first Afghan film. Instead, the 1968 Afghan production Roz garan has been accepted as the debut film of Afghan cinema. 2...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
Published: 01 December 2013
... a French homosexual encounters
Johan may be quite experientially different from the way in which
North American, German, Indian, or Chinese homosexuals
encounter the film. Nevertheless, I want to broach homosexual
desire and cinematic/apparatus pleasures through a somewhat
broadly embracing...
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 112–147.
Published: 01 September 1985
... (in this instance, a
map of Southeast Asia, where the adult Marta would fuel other kinds of
fantasies). Marta later narrates her fantasy of ‘ ‘becoming’’ an Indian
woman-an Indian wife-through a longed-for marriage with her
Calcuttan lover. Photographed trying on her...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 145–153.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., counselors, Israel lobbyists] who are trying to
bully us into silence. No more shit, folks!
As Canadians, we feel we have every right to use the term
“apartheid” — after all, we Canadians invented it, at least partially.
Our exploitive system of Indian Reserves inspired the South African...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 77–105.
Published: 01 December 2023
... regard for Indigenous bodies, histories, or environment. 62 Smith sees this as one version of the romanticized trope of the “vanishing Indian,” following Michelle Raheja (Seneca), who identifies this trope of Indigeneity as a haunting presence, a nostalgic or threatening background, instead of a live...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 4–33.
Published: 01 September 1996
..., and Ethnographic
Spectacle (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996), 8.
13. Rony 71.
14. See Parama Roy, Indian Traffic (Berkeley: U of California P, 1998);
Nalini Natarajan, "Women, Nation, and Narration in Midnight's Chil-
dren," in Grewal and Kaplan, Scattered Hegemonies...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Remembers When the World Broke Open ,” Jump Cut , no. 60 (2021): 1, http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc60.2021/Molloy-IndigenousFilms/index.html . 43. Channette Romero, “Toward an Indigenous Feminine Animation Aesthetic,” Studies in American Indian Literatures 29, no. 1 (2017): 68. 44...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2017
... much in common stylistically with the domestic narra-
tive cinema of the time, which was mostly derivative of Hollywood
Camera Obscura 94, Volume 32, Number 1
doi 10.1215/02705346-3661982 © 2017 by Camera Obscura
Published by Duke University Press
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 145–151.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Make Movies release) — and
opening-night film Water (Canada/India, 2005) — Deepa Mehta’s
highly anticipated depiction of the historical treatment of Indian
widows, whose early production had been shut down by Hindu
fundamentalists. All three feminist works...
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