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Kyung-Sung: Cinematic Memories of the Colonial Past in Contemporary Korea
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Kyoung-Lae Kang This essay examines two films, Modern Boy (dir. Ji-woo Jeong, South Korea, 2008) and Private Eye (dir. Dae-min Park, South Korea, 2009), both of which depict Seoul in the 1930s—the period during which Korean colonial modernity was fully shaped—and in so doing draw contemporary...
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Archaeological Narrative; or, Nostalgic Fascination with the Obsolete in the South Korean TV Drama Reply 1988
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 61–93.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Recent scholarly research seeks to understand how Korean media were introduced and formed in the twentieth century, particularly from a micro-historical perspective. Jongsoo Lim, for instance, investigates the transformation and integration of modern Korean media within the distinctive cultural context...
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Symmetry, Violence, and The Handmaiden 's Queer Colonial Intimacies
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and intertwined Japanese and Korean bodies. As modern scholars of colonial Korea have noted, ch'inil , the pejorative idiom for pro-Japanese collaborators, means literally “to be intimate with Japan.” 4 Sook-hee's lovemaking overliteralizes this meaning, exploding the anxious entanglements of “intimacy...
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Sexual and Intersectional: Region, Family, Disability, and Lived Experience in Lee Chang-dong's Oasis
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 28–65.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Kathleen McHugh Abstract This article rereads Lee Chang‐dong's 2002 film Oasis (South Korea) from a feminist disability media studies perspective. It begins with Lee's recent revelation that his sister's lived experience inspired its narrative. That inspiration, inflected by regional (South Korean...
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Invitation to Perform Utopia and Catastrophe: On Okin Collective's Video Works
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 141–151.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Jihoon Kim This article examines a series of video works by Okin Collective, a group of three Korean artists (Jin Shiu, Kim Hwayong, and Yi Joungmin) who have over the past few years been productively concerned with an array of political, social, and cultural issues from both local and global...
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Trauma, Shame, and Men's Tears in The Manchurian Candidate
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the representation of masculine traumatic symptoms in both Richard Condon's 1959 novel and Frankenheimer's cinematic adaptation of it. In a period of national shame about the unwon Korean conflict, Frankenheimer first feminizes his protagonists by rendering them hysterical, and then allows them to redeem themselves...
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Mothers and Daughters: Abjection and the Monstrous-Feminine in Japan's Dark Water and South Korea's A Tale of Two Sisters
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., starring Sarah Michelle
Gellar); and Honogurai mizu no soko kara (Dark Water, dir. Hideo
Nakata, Japan, 2002), remade as Dark Water (dir. Walter Salles,
2005, featuring Jennifer Connelly); as well as the Korean psycho-
logical horror film A Tale of Two Sisters (dir. Ji-woon Kim, 2003),
the remake...
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Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of the youth drama (qingqun
ouxiang ju) and the marriage-love drama (hunlian ju). In her exami-
nation of various subgenres of TV drama, Xueping Zhong argues
that in the 1990s, imported Japanese and Korean youth-idol dra-
mas reintroduced the sentiment of modern romantic love to China.
These imported...
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Reality Moms, Real Monsters: Transmediated Continuity, Reality Celebrity, and the Female Grotesque
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 11–39.
Published: 01 May 2015
... continuity. Or rather, the idea of Kate is a good case in point, particularly since the Caucasian Kate, her ex-husband, the Asian-looking Jon (of white, Korean, and Hawaiian lineage), and their eight little China doll kids reveal the degree to which transmediated continuity, in its mediated mixture...
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The Wages of Affluence: The High-Rise Housewife in Japanese Sex Films
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2012
... to “American business management . . . a society
administered through highly sophisticated mechanisms for fore-
cast, planning and control.”10 In a broader sense, it referred to
three things: the ties to corporate and international business cul-
ture that boomed during the Korean and Vietnam wars...
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Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2022
... his “exceptional Korean heritage” so that a “comfortable, homogeneous ‘Chinese’ coupling” could be facilitated. 56 In other words, if the desire embodied by the white male gaze is based on exoticism, that is, the desire for the racial other, then the yellow men's desire for Wong's characters...
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Imaging Modern Girls in the Japanese Woman's Film
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 15–55.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the reader to negotiate
back and forth between Japanese and Western faces in a complex
combination of gender juxtaposition, while putting into place
Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese on the Asian continent through a
form of code-switching.”13 While her discussion is less specifically
concerned...
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The Minor Transnationalism of Queer Asian Cinema: Female Authorship and the Short Film Format
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
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lesbian-themed films directed by men it would be much longer.
Not all of the directors listed are queer, although several are.
43. In an example from public broadcast television, online replays
of Daughters of Club Bilitis, an hour-long Korean Broadcasting
System drama about three...
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Of Red Queens and Garden Clubs: The Manchurian Candidate , Cold War Paranoia, and the Historicity of the Homosexual
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 149–183.
Published: 01 May 2005
... it
unprecedentedly labyrinthine and despaired of intelligible sum-
mary. But synopsis is not difficult: a company of US soldiers cap-
tured in the Korean War is brainwashed by communists and made
to believe they were saved by Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey).
Trained to be an unknowing assassin, Raymond receives...
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Nguyễn Trinh Thi's Landscape Series #1 (2013) and the Limits of Search and Destroy
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 90–117.
Published: 01 May 2025
... Asian “enemies” across tropical sites of US imperialism. As the “word for natives everywhere,” gook gained traction in reference to Southeast Asians after the Korean War. 17 The gook's indigeneity to the jungle and, relatedly, interchangeability between cognates of US empire produced a geopolitical...
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Blog Ambition: Fashion, Feelings, and the Political Economy of the Digital Raced Body
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
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that Korean American femininity, a modality and form of “hard
femininity,” is revealed as a self-defined and self-defining practice
of subject formation rather than a fixed or stable identity. In both
outfit post examples, Zhang and Lee/Schecter create fashionable
bodies that connect rather than...
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“They Can't Do This to Us !”: Alan Alda as (Anti)Feminist Signifier
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 35–61.
Published: 01 December 2011
... rather than with women.
Any discussion of Alda’s stardom must include M*A*S*H,
which ran on the CBS network from 1972 to 1983. Alda’s character,
Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, a medical doctor serving in
the Korean War, was the show’s focus during the entire run. Alda
himself wrote...
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The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 1988
... considered increases in con•
sumer spending-increases of 30% to 50% -to be necessary to perpetuate
prosperity in the postwar era Defense spending for the Cold War and
Korean Conflict had complemented an aggressive trade policy to improve
the state of the economy, but it appeared...
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Between Mothers and Daughters: Adoption, Family, and Black Female Subjectivity in Finding Christa and Off and Running
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 77–107.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., although they each do so in strikingly different ways. Off and
Running concentrates on Avery, an African American teenager,
and her adoptive family: her white Jewish lesbian mothers and
two adopted brothers — one also African American, the other
of Korean descent. The driving narrative...
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On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological Production of the Gendered Body
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 206–237.
Published: 01 January 1992
... or American;
rather, they desire a more refined Oriental eye . . . . An upper lid western-
ization blepharoplasty frequently is given to a young Korean woman on
the occasion of her betrothal [210].
Although other surgeons warn that it is “wise to discuss the Oriental
and Occidental eye...
