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Conservative Narrativity, Queer Politics, and the Humor of Gay Stereotypes in Modern Family
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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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Diversity Times Three: The “ Modern Family Effect” and the Privatization of Diversity
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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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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
... 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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Three by Three: Lisa Cholodenko’s Attachment Trilogy
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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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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
... 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-
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ter from a wealthy family and a traditional middle-class girl...
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Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet
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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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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
... and “family,” Oasis depicts its protagonists’ families eschewing traditional duty to care for disabled family members. Instead, Gong-ju and Jong-du's “modernized” families exploit them for instrumental economic gain. Because of their needs, despite their significant contributions (her state-allotted...
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Melodrama's Other: Entrapment and Escape in the Films of Tom Tykwer
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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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The Kids Are All Right , the Pursuits of Happiness, and the Spaces Between
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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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“Overcoming Modernity”: Gender and the Pathos of History in Japanese Film Melodrama
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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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Documenting Modern-Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic: An Interview with Amy Serrano
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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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Naruse Mikio's Silent Films: Gender and the Discourse of Everyday Life in Interwar Japan
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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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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
..., 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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The Documentaries of Kim Longinotto: Women, Change, and Painful Modernity
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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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Hong Kong Mambo
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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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Love Is Elsewhere: Neoliberalism and the Tourist Romance
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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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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
... 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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Kitchen Technologies: Promises and Alibis, 1944-1966
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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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African Women and Visual Culture: A Sample Syllabus
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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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