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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...
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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...
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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
..., “Modern Family: The Transformation of the Family Photograph in Qajar Iran,” Trans-Asia Photography Review 9, no. 1 (2018), http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0009.109 . 15. Leila Pourtavaf, “Royal Harem Lives: Power, Intimacy, and Liminal Family Formation in the Late Nineteenth Century Qajar...
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 28–65.
Published: 01 May 2025
... and “family,” Oasis depicts its protagonists’ families eschewing traditional duty to care for disabled family members. Instead, Gong-ju and Jong-du's “modernizedfamilies exploit them for instrumental economic gain. Because of their needs, despite their significant contributions (her state-allotted...
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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 (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 111–135.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., 8 July 2010, www.advocate.com /society/modernfamilies/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 (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...
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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 (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...
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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 (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 66–89.
Published: 01 May 2025
... that Gede's operation, which has been owned by his family for generations, is not out of touch with modern technology. In the following shot, Lily walks up to Gede as he harvests the seaweed. She joins him, remarking that if she too could go to work in her swimwear, she might enjoy working as well. Standing...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 61–93.
Published: 01 December 2024
... cassette tape player/recorder, a Polaroid camera, and a camcorder for home movies, all of which were popular in the 1980s yet soon became obsolete. The on-screen presence of the television set as an icon of modern life appears throughout the narrative, albeit reframed for viewers by the digital...
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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 (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...