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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
... and complicates the established configurations of the gendered “Orientals”: the Janus‐faced Japanese man and the ornamentalist yellow woman. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2022 Orientalism and ornamentalism Asian American stars racial...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
Published: 01 September 2009
... classical thinkers like Quin-
tilian, who held that “ornament must, as I have already said, be
bold, manly and chaste, free from all effeminate smoothness and
false hues derived from artificial dyes, and must glow with health
and vigour.”53 To this disprized Oriental and queer body...
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Yellowness as Transpacific Technology: Cinematic Regimes of Race between Japan and Brazil
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in white-oriented Japanese modernity. Within this cinematic promise, yellowness produces no mocking resistance at all, as Homi Bhabha suggested with his notion of colonial mimicry as “at once resemblance and menace.” 20 Instead it reproduces and redistributes colonial racial violence. The cinematic...
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Consuming Distractions in Prix de beauté
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 41–67.
Published: 01 September 2002
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utopian goals and, indeed, address the spectator as a “selfishly
interested bystander.”
By contrasting the epigraphs of Münsterberg and Kra-
cauer, I orient my project around the opposing positions that
locate cinema’s artistic value in either unity or disunity, contem-
plation or distraction...
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Veronica Clare and the New Film Noir Heroine
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 76–101.
Published: 01 May 1994
... on the one
side by the ornamental, with its traditional connotations of effeminacy and
decadence, and on the other, by the everyday, whose “prosiness” is rooted
in the domestic sphere of social life presided over by women. . . . The detail
does not occupy a conceptual space beyond the laws...
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Greta Garbo and Silent Cinema: The Actress As Art Deco Icon
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 83–111.
Published: 01 December 2001
... with the machine age, both in its imagery and graphics. Not
only did Deco adopt a rhetoric of the mechanical, it also utilized
new modes of fabrication. In its industrial orientation, Art Deco
employed synthetic materials like plastic (Bakelite, Lucite, Vitro-
lite) and metal (chrome, stainless steel, aluminum...
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Skin Deep: Josephine Baker and the Colonial Fetish
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 35–79.
Published: 01 December 2008
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his writing he exhibits a profound aversion for any architectural
gesture that would recall elements of the so-called primitive. In
another well-known essay, pithily titled “Ornament and Crime”
(1908), Loos categorically...
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Those Who Squat and Those Who Sit: The Iconography of Race in the 1895 Films of Félix-Louis Regnault
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 262–289.
Published: 01 January 1992
... detail coalesced in the spectacularizing construc-
tion of the “ethnographic.” Detail is meant here in three senses. The
first sense is detail as document: Regnault writes of the exposition as
the site of authentic scientific detail. The second sense is detail as
ornament. A good example...
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Interview with Paromita Vohra: Remaking the “Political” in Social Documentary
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 167–177.
Published: 01 May 2017
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ern approach, I find this to be an antierotic, ascetic principle —
the masculine warrior over the erotic feminine — whereas Indian
visual aesthetics, which are very ornamental, have many elements
in one frame with the smallest/marginal elements coexisting with
the biggest/normative ones...
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A Feminist Still: Documentary Form and Untimely Critique in Sheba Chhachhi’s Protest Photography
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Obscura 3. See, for example, Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982); and Susan Sontag, On Photography (New York: Picador, 1977). 4. Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, trans. Thomas Levin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard...
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The Forgotten Man; or, How Hollywood Invented Welfare
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 74–107.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of the Depression on the discourse of voca-
tion: those who observed this man would fail to recognize in him
a distinct type from a society based on labor. Taking the form Sig-
fried Kracauer called the “mass ornament,” less a character than
a principle of composition, the Forgotten Man was everywhere...
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Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's ‘Accompaniment for a Cinematographic Scene’:Straub/Huillet: Brecht: Schoenberg
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 34–49.
Published: 01 September 1977
... the division of
life into work and leisure His passion points to a music of which the
mind need not be ashamed .
Schoenberg's intolerance of all excess ornament stems from his gener-
osity, from his reluctance to have the listener deprived of true riches by
ostentation...
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Reconstructing Documentary: Connie Hatch's Representational Resistance
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 112–147.
Published: 01 September 1985
... d’Estaing who occupies the middle of the picture)
was in this instance also a photo opportunity for the striking photog-
raphers.
That the photograph is now ornamenting my bulletin board after
having served as publicity for an art event, after having, quite probably,
been reproduced in French...
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“Dated Sexuality”: Anna Biller's Viva and the Retrospective Life of Sexploitation Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 95–135.
Published: 01 December 2011
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on spectatorial fantasy. Biller, a Los Angeles-based Japanese
American artist, received her bachelor’s degree in fine arts from
the University of California, Los Angeles and her master of fine
arts in art and film from the California Institute of the Arts. This
training certainly has oriented her...
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Mission Accomplished? Profits and Programming at the Network for Women
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 212–241.
Published: 01 May 1994
...) needs.
Certainly, Lifetime staff members believe that the network can deliver
pro-social, women-oriented programs. Lisa Nee, a director of original
programming, described Lifetime’s mission as providing shows that
are “positive and empowering for women. n4 Although the network
has produced...
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Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 130–143.
Published: 01 December 1984
... in order not to indulge
in ‘ ‘thematic’ ’ or ‘ ‘images of‘ ’ analysis, which characterizes the tradi-
tional “content-oriented’ ’ criticism that privileges the Surrealist texts.
But in her haste to go beyond Breton and Aragon, and to confine her
analysis to writings on film and the image only...
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Lifetime's Feminine Psychographic Space and the “Mystery Loves Company” Series
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 42–75.
Published: 01 May 1994
..., the first section of this essay considers
the network’s strategies for producing the Lifetime identity and the
deployment of the “working woman” as an emblematic figure in its
predominantly white, heterosexually-oriented (although not exclusive
of lesbian appropriation...
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Dangerous Spaces: Safe
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 125–155.
Published: 01 December 2004
... unsettling, Safe has also been difficult to place in
terms of Haynes’s oeuvre, since it lacks both explicitly gay-oriented
content (except for occasional references to AIDS that function
as scene-setting coordinates) and his trademark experimenta-
tions with genre. Haynes, however, has suggested a strong...
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The Politics of Breast Cancer
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 156–177.
Published: 01 January 1992
... set of
issues makes medicine political. With rape and battering on the rise,
the assault on reproductive rights continuing to escalate, and little real
change from the culture of woman-as-ornamental-object, women in
America are still not granted dominion over their own...
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Against House Arrest: Digital Memory and the Impossible Archive
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 39–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
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that at once opens up and requires a more thoroughly theoreti-
cal interrogation. While emphasizing the hybrid and fragmen-
tary nature of archival art (Thomas Hirschhorn, Sam Durant,
and Tacita Dean constituting the examples under analysis), Fos-
ter suggests that its “orientation . . . is often more...
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