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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 95–119.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Marcos Gonsalez Abstract This article examines the outtakes and supplemental footage of Paris Is Burning (dir. Jennie Livingston, US, 1990), tracking across these seconds and sound bites the various glimpses of trans Puerto Rican performer Angie Xtravaganza. Through a conceptual schema the author...
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Figure 2. Angie and the scratch on the reel, Criterion Collection edition outtakes. Paris Is Burning (dir. Jennie Livingston, US, 1990) More
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Figure 4. Angie laying her head on a friend, Criterion Collection edition outtakes. Paris Is Burning (dir. Jennie Livingston, US, 1990) More
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Figure 3. “ Ay lo que ha hecho, loca! ” Criterion Collection edition outtakes. Paris Is Burning (dir. Jennie Livingston, US, 1990) More
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Figure 1. Angie chitchatting in Spanish, Union Square, New York City, Criterion Collection edition outtakes. Paris Is Burning (dir. Jennie Livingston, US, 1990) More
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of applause for the speakers. The last mention of a screening of La Femme nouvelle was on 14 March 1936. La française advertised a Paris screening of the film at the “Cinéma Pereire-Palace” that evening in the Seventeenth arrondissement. Another La française write-up on Weiss's most recent...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 83–111.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre , and Sunrise . She is currently at work on Designing Women: Art Deco, Cinema, and the Female Form , forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Greta Garbo and Silent Cinema: The Actress As Art Deco Icon Lucy Fischer The stuff [shown at the 1925 Paris...
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 122–130.
Published: 01 September 1977
... of the film, the voicesspeak to each other of love, ofdesire and of the past. "Marguerite Duras, Natbelie Granger, suivie de LaFemmeduGange (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1973) p.107 (my translation). 123 I...
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Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 128–139.
Published: 01 May 1976
..., then be- comethemselves, then become another. Festival showings in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Edinburgh, Toronto, and Paris. I CHANGE, I AM THE SAME-Made with Shelby Kennedy; 1 min.; B&W ; 16mm. Fixedcamera: a couple in classic portrait pose: stop action transformations of who our...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 95–123.
Published: 01 September 2020
... queer spaces. In reality, as many writers and theorists would agree, queer spaces are predominantly urban. Michael Sibalis notes, for instance, that urbanization is a precondition to emergence of a significant gay culture. 18 Moreover, as Jenny Livingston s Paris Is Burning (US, 1990) and many queer...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 169–179.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., that there are different bourgeoisies and different undergrounds and they can clash in many ways. Just as we still live with the heritage of May 1968 in Paris, in the experimental film world so too we still live with the aftermath of EXPRMNTL 4 in 1967 in the small town of Knokke. When the fifth edition of the festival...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 76–87.
Published: 01 September 1991
... seen most of the good ones in New York, like Poison (Todd Haynes), Privilege (Yvonne Rainer), Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston), I Hired a Contract Killer (Aki Kaurismaki). These films ask questions: about politics, about sexuality, about storytelling, about looking...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 1–45.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of a certain ambivalence” (125) and states that resignification can never be anything other than an act of “politi- cally impotent disrespect.”70 To illustrate his point, Bersani picks up on examples Butler gives from Paris Is Burning (dir. Jennie Liv- ington, US, 1990). A key feature of the drag queen...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 227–265.
Published: 01 December 2001
... to visit Mer- cedes in Paris again, but these are the only indicators of a sapphic lifestyle—and that is Mercedes’s not Garbo’s.9 If the women had a romantic affair in the 1930s, Garbo for one had moved on. She wrote infrequently, sometimes answering...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
Published: 01 September 2009
... in immediate representational issues. See, e.g., Butler, Bodies That Matter; bell hooks, “Is Paris Burning?” in Black Looks: Race and Representation (Boston: South End, 1992), 145 – 56. 17. For more on orientation, see Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 32–48.
Published: 01 September 1995
... strictures of race, gender, and sexuality by cross-dressing and transgressing gender roles. Like the black and brown voguers in the documentary on New York City’s gay “subcul- ture,” Paris Is Burning, s/he achieves the symbolic and literal privileges of the fetishized, sexual...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 77–103.
Published: 01 September 1996
... to Paris with her daughter in 1880. They go to a hotel and the mother is taken ill. They call a doctor who tells the girl that her mother needs a certain kind of medicine, and they can send her to the other end of Paris in a horse drawn cab. Four hours later, she gets back to the hotel and says...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 87–107.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the great exodus of World War II—a collection of sunny images of houseboat life and joyful games (plus the typical Vardian ironic shock shot of a man exposing himself)—is a sequence in which Varda describes in detail her 2007 installation at the Pantheon in the heart of Paris. Commissioned to commemorate...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 231–239.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of the platform. The mental crash and burn dubbed “Zoom fatigue” is real (indeed, we may not have grasped just how real during those early weeks of isolation) and must somehow be accounted for. 5 What had been planned as a full day of panels on-site, with their attendant refreshments and socializing, we...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 119–163.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Galliera and in Kahn’s secreening room. Courtesy Les Documents Cinématographiques, Paris “These Spectacles Are Never Forgotten”: Memory and Reception in Colette’s Film Criticism Paula Amad It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss...