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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Tison Pugh Despite the progressive ambitions announced in its title, the sitcom Modern Family (ABC, 2009–) has been excoriated by many viewers for its purported conservatism and reactionary politics. In particular, the program’s treatment of homosexuality, evident in the story line of gay couple...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Douglas S. Ishii The “ Modern Family effect,” a reference to the ABC family sitcom that premiered in 2009, first emerged to describe the program’s ratings success and then shifted in meaning to discuss its seemingly bipartisan depiction of same-sex marriage. This convergence of television’s...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2009
... is ultimately conservative and functions as a form of narrative containment, the modern purification ritual that emphasizes the need to be recuperated into the male order of things. Camera Obscura 2009 K K Seet established the Theatre Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore in 1992...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 97–125.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... 16. Cavell, The Thought of Movies, Yale Review 72, no. 2 (1983): 190. 17. Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness, 88. 18. Joshua Gamson s Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship (New York: New York University Press, 2015) rounds out this critical and popular conversation...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 15–55.
Published: 01 December 2005
... in the US, and the second wife, who takes
good care of her stepdaughter; Sunny Cloud (Seidon, dir. Nomura
Hotei, 1933), which depicts the dichotomy between a moga daugh-
Imaging Modern Girls • 29
ter from a wealthy family and a traditional middle-class girl...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2022
...: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017), 21. 13. The Tehran Times is an independent online magazine, founded in 2012 as a fashion blog by the young, Paris-based designer Araz Fazaeli. 14. Staci Gem Scheiwiller, “Modern Family: The Transformation of the Family...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 111–135.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., 8 July 2010, www.advocate.com
/society/modern-families/2010/07/08/our-lesbian-brokeback
-kids-are-all-right.
13. Trish Bendix, “Lisa Cholodenko on ‘The Kids Are All Right,’
‘High Art,’ and Working on ‘The L Word,’ ” AfterEllen, 16
November 2010...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 108–143.
Published: 01 September 2006
...) and filled with a sense that it is “too
late” (30). In this sense, both the space and time of melodrama
tend to look backward at a familial and national space and time
in which the contradictions of modernity could be reconciled. As
Singer points out, quoting Georg Lukács, melodrama temporarily...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 77–107.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., Universals and Contrasts , and Storytelling in World Cinema: Contexts . © 2013 by Camera Obscura 2013 Figure 1. A modern family: the Klein-Clouds in
Off and Running (dir. Nicole Opper, US, 2009)
Between Mothers and Daughters:
Adoption, Family, and Black
Female Subjectivity in Finding...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 129–157.
Published: 01 May 1995
... bound up in the moga.
The alienation of the independent woman from family, romance, and
even legitimate employment is precisely the decline of "the social" that
modernity was held responsible for by Japanese intellectuals. At stake,
clearly, is a subjective space for women...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 161–171.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Michael T. Martin While slavery is distinctive in human history, its enduring legacy and practices in the modern world are manifest in the “disposable” labor that provisions the brothels, sweatshops, and agricultural plantations in the global economy. This interview with filmmaker Amy Serrano...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 57–89.
Published: 01 December 2005
... that in Japan, as
in other peripheral sites, modernity was perceived as a perpetu-
ally incomplete process. It was necessarily characterized by an
unevenness not only between city and country life but also within
the private realm of the family and in the public life of the street,
where different...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 79–131.
Published: 01 September 2001
... or Management for Modern Families,
human) and the machine, both (New York: Appleton-Century-
held forth as the promised eman- Crofts, 1954 ; 2d ed., 1963).
cipators of women, are both
incorporated into the homemaker herself. Similarly, in science-
fictional representations of the future, as well...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 43–75.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of modernity and traditional or religious law, this essay argues that Longinotto frames the women not as “primitive others” but as entrenched in the complex paradigms of modernity. Moreover, the four documentaries under consideration weave together the activities of expressing pain or witnessing the pain...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
... at mesmerizing all who encounter her in life or at
her nightly show. What explains her momentary lapse in this par-
ticular performance? The key to understanding such a disruption
of fantasy is the anachronism of the traditional Chinese family in
the space of capitalist modernity, which here takes...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2014
...-class family
and the promises of modernity necessitate the sacrifice and expul-
sion of the mother who hails from the milieu of the slum. After Yu’s
departure, the waiter continues to watch the revelry until Kailing
catches sight of him at the door and recognizes him. He makes up
an excuse...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 84–117.
Published: 01 September 1995
..., into modern economies, while at the
same time accommodating their husbands and families so that tradi-
tional/familial support systems do not collapse alt~gether.~
A brief look at some broad African women’s concerns
One of the overriding concerns for many women throughout...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., and family through Mani-
chean melodramatic dichotomies of good and evil, life and death,
and tradition and modernity that the narratives can resolve only
through appeals to affect.
The melodramatic mode has provoked intense debate
within Anglo-American feminist film criticism, much of which...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 73–101.
Published: 01 September 2007
... in France from 1925 to 1975 and became a French
citizen in 1937, is best remembered for spectacles of modern
primitivism such as the costumed cabaret dances represented in
films like the 1935 extravaganzaPrincess Tam Tam (dir. Edmond T.
Gréville, France) and Zouzou (dir. Marc Allégret, France, 1934...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 35–75.
Published: 01 December 2023
... against the findings of modern scientists and psychologists.” 46 Figure 8. “Character Analysis through Color,” Paint Merchandising Council, 1956. Box 7, Folder 1, Faber Birren Papers, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University Figure 8. “Character Analysis through Color,” Paint...
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