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Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet

Nazli Akhtari
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013590
Published: 01 December 2022
...Nazli Akhtari Abstract This article reveals how engagements with the photographic archives of premodern Iran and the Persian carpet break open transtemporal, affective, and queer interplays in diaspora. Examining a digital remix of a photograph of a Qajar princess, ‘Ismat al-Dowlah, from...
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Saving Other Women from Other Men: Disneys Aladdin

Erin Addison
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 4–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11-1_31-4
Published: 01 May 1993
... medium com- bines literary and filmic genres (formula hero film, full-production Broadway musical, fairy tale, and fable) into a bigoted and quite traditional European readingwriting of the medieval Persian story.5 Aladdin has also been widely criticized for its racism. In an unprece...
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