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Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet

Nazli Akhtari
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013590
Published: 01 December 2022
... up critical questions about gender vis-à-vis production, labor, and computation within both carpets and computers as media interface. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2022 Iranian diaspora archive remix and (mis)use...
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The Documentaries of Kim Longinotto: Women, Change, and Painful Modernity

Belinda Smaill
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 43–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2009-002
Published: 01 September 2009
... documentaries frequently focus on women and children in not only the United Kingdom but also in cultures as diverse as Japan, Iran, and nations in Africa. This essay explores four of her most well-known recent documentaries, Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001), both made in Tehran and codirected...
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Shampoo: Editing, Advertising, and Codes of Modesty on Saudi Arabian Television

Noor Al-Qasimi
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 91–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1301548
Published: 01 September 2011
... to Iranian cinema, since this subject has garnered significant attention within the Western academic canon. In his seminal essay, “Veiled Visions/Powerful Presences: Women in Post- revolutionary Iranian Cinema,” Hamid Naficy argues that the insti- tutionalization of modesty in Iran, as formulated...
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Appropriate Feminisms: Ambivalence and Citational Practice in Appropriate Behavior

Clara Bradbury-Rance
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 145–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013660
Published: 01 December 2022
...). Is citing the past of cultural production a way of signaling one's place in the present—or of undermining it? After all, Shirin is the archetypal millennial subject: reaching the end of her twenties and discovering that both professional and romantic success remain elusive. And as a bisexual Iranian...
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Queer/Palestinian Cinema: A Critical Conversation on Palestinian Queer and Women's Filmmaking

Colleen Jankovic, Nadia Awad
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1597231
Published: 01 September 2012
.... Referencing Bruce LaBruce’s SkinFlick, in which a skinhead masturbates while reading Mein Kampf, the video depicts a young man masturbating to a picture that turns out to be Iranian presi- dent Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. AbuAsad’s video unapologetically confronts viewers with the desiring embodiment...
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What Is That and between Arab Women and Video? The Case of Beirut

Laura U. Marks
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 41–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-18-3_54-41
Published: 01 December 2003
... of theater and French literature; Farah Dakhlallah, a Lebanese studying film at FEMIS in France; and Ghazel, who, as an established Iranian video artist, seemed an odd fit. While the participants in Transit Visa produced one-minute videos during the week, what is most fascinating about the project is its...
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