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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
.... The female protagonists in these films are, accordingly, associated with Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection (in particular, the construction of the maternal figure as abject through the imagery of parturition and the primal scene) and depicted in various guises as the monstrous-feminine, a potent source...
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Of Housewives and Saints: Abjection, Transgression, and Impossible Mourning in Poison and Safe
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 93–123.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Laura Christian Camera Obscura 2004 Laura Christian is a doctoral candidate in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. James Lyons as Jack Bolton in Poison (US, 1991).
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Of Housewives and Saints:
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Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
... by the greater economic insecurity that middle-class women have been facing post–Great Recession but also by a variety social factors that generate feelings of immobilization and isolation. Abjection is often a principal sign of these characters' precarity—they inhabit spaces where they often recoil from others...
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John Waters's Vulgarity: Trash Cinema, Serial Mom , and the Politics of Abjection
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): iv–27.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Ashley T. Shelden Abstract This article puts John Waters into conversation with Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan, shedding new light on the political significance of the abject in Waters's trash cinema. The argument focuses on Waters's uses of the abject in both his early “transgressive” films...
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Pretty Gross: Dialectics of Desire and Disgust in the Reception of Pipilotti Rist
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 91–113.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Emily Watlington Abstract This article considers the often‐overlooked role that disgusting imagery plays in the work of Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist. In immersive installations and in single‐channel videos, Rist updates abject feminist performance art of the 1960s and 1970s for a media...
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Capote’s Swans: Effeminacy, Friendship, and Style in Douglas McGrath’s Infamous
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and personally productive, offering nostalgic alternatives to both the gay cultural attachment to masculinity and the powerful historical narratives about the inherent abjection of queerness at midcentury. However, even as Infamous exposes, celebrates, and aestheticizes Capote’s effeminacy and the male...
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Wer Aesthetics in Contemporary Queer Thai Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 139–169.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., the author reads wer aesthetics as a response to cultural nationalism and a global queer discourse in military-resurgent Thailand. In its use of complicity as critique, wer aesthetics blurs the lines between capitulation and protest, abjection and enjoyment, thus revising how normativities...
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Devouring the Diva: Martyrdom as Feminist Backlash in The Rose
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 69–87.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of the 1979 film The Rose (dir. Mark Rydell, US), and in particular, through its spectacular reimagining of Janis Joplin's death, Bradshaw explores our cultural attachment to narratives of the diva's abjection and shame. By framing Joplin, that quintessential symbol of both 1960s rock-and-roll culture...
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Horror Cities: Contesting the Ruins of Capitalism in Contemporary Genre Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 139–159.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of mutuality and political contestation rather than a mystified object of horror and abjection. Copyright © 2020 Camera Obscura 2020 horror film apocalypse film African Americans and film deindustrialization the ruin post-Fordism the city Figure 1. Ruinscape. The Road (dir. John Hillcoat, US...
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I Dreamed I Was Wanted: Flower Drum Song and Specters of Modernity
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
... to stage the satisfactions of marital bliss. Linda's fantasy of domestic modernity pointedly and spectacularly fails to cover over national histories of colonial violence and trauma. Meanwhile, Mei Li's premodern framework of animism enlivens these abject spirits otherwise buried by national and imperial...
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Cinematic Exile: Performing the Foreign Body on Screen in Roman Polanski's The Tenant
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 1–43.
Published: 01 May 2000
... of phobic
nationalism and the obsessive desire to guard national borders
against strangers-foreigners who are coded as undesirable intrud-
ers and stigmatized as others. I read The Tenant as a filmic narra-
tive of abjection by analyzing two...
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The Perverted Ancestry of the Antiheroine: Bad Mothers and Unruly Daughters in Sharp Objects and Mare of Easttown
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 63–93.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and horror. 17 By contrast, Mare of Easttown engages with traditional notions of the Gothic—the murdered girl, the attic, the monstrous child—in order to renegotiate the site of the feminine as transformative and reconciliatory, as opposed to monstrous and abject. While Camille's flashbacks and memories...
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Recycled Wounds: Trauma, Gender, and Ethnicity in Keren Yedaya's Or, My Treasure
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 41–71.
Published: 01 December 2009
....
Recycled Wounds • 45
This construction of the Mizrahi body can be portrayed in
terms of what Julia Kristeva calls the abject body. Kristeva defines
the abject as that which the subject expels and repudiates in an
effort to constitute and stabilize his or her boundaries. The repul-
sive...
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Taking It Personally: Male Suffering in 8MM
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 157–187.
Published: 01 May 2003
...-ridden than
ever, falling deeper into a form of chronic abjection.8 Unlike bat-
tered heroes such as Rambo, Welles never seems quite sure of his
code of honor or of the righteousness of his anger. The relent-
lessly brutal ordeals of Rambo “must be seen as being self-willed,
as being the product...
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An Affair to Forget: Melancholia in Bromantic Comedy
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
... them. Women’s losses and grief
are frequently relegated to the decidedly unromantic category of
depression.3 Indeed, the image of abject women viewers spending,
in Molly Haskell’s words, “wet, wasted afternoons” sobbing over
films aimed at female audiences suggests that depressed women...
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“I'm Very Rich, Bitch!”: The Melodramatic Money Shot and the Excess of Racialized Gendered Affect in the Real Housewives Docusoaps
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
... a white racialized gendered perspective. This, however, is not a wholly abject or negative experience. The docusoap s melodramatic staging of this perceived excess can also produce pleasure for subjects who have been burdened with representations of excessive sexuality, embodiment, and affect. Indeed, I...
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Abstract Representational Space: Uncanny Aliens and Others (Pandora, or Prometheus's Return)
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 243–274.
Published: 01 May 1997
...] subjectivity is in fact denied
The creation of these submissive, secondary characters literally covers
over the history of their foresisters.
The Abject Self, The Android and the Uncanny Alien:
Frontiers-Women and Femme Fatafes
The shadow on the edge of bourgeois culture...
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Melancholic Arrangements: Music, Queer Melodrama, and the Seeds of Transformation in The Hours
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 105–145.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... As Doane points out, this “pure
presence” is a fantasy of a maternal space, a space in which patri-
archal society overinvests as a “comforting, nurturing, protecting”
enclosure in order to reassure against the true horror evoked by
a more radical and abjected maternal space of nondifferentiation...
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Reframing the New French Extremity: Cinema, Theory, Mediation
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 161–187.
Published: 01 December 2015
... offer exceptionally graphic depictions of sex and violence
and generally deploy an aesthetic that privileges the shocking, the
horrific, and the abject. The NFE has already drawn considerable
attention among critics for the way it connects to larger questions
of cinematic ontology. The promise...
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Endangered Humans?: Wired Bodies and the Human Wilds in Carnosaur, Carnosaur 2 , and 12 Monkeys
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 226–242.
Published: 01 May 1997
... flights from bodies,
animals, and matter. Carnosaur 2, for example, dramatizes the re-
entrenchment of the humanist subject through a traditional quest to
dominate nature, yet this transcendent subject is formed only by de-
flecting destabilizing forces onto abject...
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