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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Victor Fan This article studies the success of the Twilight franchise in relation to the stardom of Robert Pattinson by proposing a model of interpretation called “the poetics of addiction.” The term addiction is used in this essay not as a top-down form of dependency but as a multilateral...
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(TV) Junkies in Need of an Intervention : On Addictive Spectatorship and Recovery Television
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 71–99.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Hunter Hargraves This article charts the emergence of a subgenre of reality television, recovery television, in which individuals with compulsive behaviors or addictions to unhealthy substances are profiled and reformed through a staged intervention. It argues that recovery television...
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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
.... Whether the relationships are straight, gay, or bisexual; maternal, paternal, or filial; motivated, situational, or opportunistic; whether the worlds they inhabit are those of art photography, popular music, or medicine; whether their compulsions are addictive, obsessive, or narcissistic; the common story...
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Bollywood in Drag: Moulin Rouge! and the Aesthetics of Global Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 29–67.
Published: 01 December 2011
... cinema, while the love-addicted hero Christian relies on the sentimental codes of Bollywood masculinity. Our task in this article is to archive these less-visible debts and to query the logic of the absent/present form that Bollywood takes in this film, appearing as style but remaining obscure...
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Race and the First-Person Shooter: Challenging the Video Gamer in BioShock Infinite
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 89–123.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., and addictive gameplay. As the latest installment in an award-winning franchise, BioShock Infinite entices players on reputation alone. Although the game's marketing presents it as a clichéd FPS game with a stereotypical white male hero and nonstop action, BioShock Infinite regularly interrogates its own models...
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Glimpsing Angie Xtravaganza: The Trans Latinx Imaginary of Paris Is Burning
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 95–119.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., Venus develops a coke addiction. This addiction leads her, as the novel takes time to illustrate, into seemingly dangerous actions of searching for drugs on the street, culminating in her eventual murder. The coke addiction reads as a narrative prop to push Venus's story along, a cause and effect...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 181–183.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Chris
Censoring Purity. No. 79: pp. 97 – 125
Kathleen Collins
A Kitchen of One’s Own: The Paradox of Dione Lucas. No. 80:
pp. 1 – 23
Chris Dumas
On Film Studies and the Unconscious. No. 81: pp. 39 – 67
Victor Fan
The Poetics of Addiction: Stardom, “Feminized” Spectatorship...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 188–190.
Published: 01 December 2015
...
Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupac’s Live Performance at
Coachella. No. 89: pp. 29 – 53
Johanna Gosse
Pop, Collaboration, Utopia: Bruce Conner’s BREAKAWAY in 1960s
Los Angeles. No. 89: pp. 1 – 27
Hunter Hargraves
(TV) Junkies in Need of an Intervention: On Addictive...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2015
... with the situation of women to confront wider issues that are explicitly and implicitly gendered, such as obesity, addiction, sexual license, and superb grooming to name just a few of the themes discussed in this issue. Andi: Yes, what are the themes of the issue? How would you describe the issue s goals...
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Star Hole (for Courtney Love)
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 154–157.
Published: 01 September 2007
... enough to speak.
We watched her crash and burn. Althea Flynt’s narrative (complete
with needles, addiction, bruises, pills, and a hospital bed) mirrors
Love’s own trauma and asks the star (and her fans) to remember
and repeat, while giving value to the aesthetics of raunch, trash...
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“Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn?” Film as a Vehicle of Sensual Education
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 75–117.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Valentino, “Woman and Love,” Photoplay, March 1922,
41 – 42, 106 – 7. The biographer Joan Hardwick says that Glyn
ghosted parts of a Valentino article for Photoplay but does not
specify which article. Joan Hardwick, Addicted to Romance: The
Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn (London...
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Televisual Fears and Warrior Myths: Mary Kelly Meets Dawn Dedeaux
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 124–160.
Published: 01 September 1993
... as a source of
social “implosion” because it “absorbs all critical content and renders
the medium impervious to critique What remains, argues Mark
Crispin Miller, are TV’s addictive style and numbing habits of spectator-
ship that flatten out history, purpose, and value: “TV negates the very...
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Not a Dirty Secret: On Some Cases of Bulimia in Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 147–182.
Published: 01 May 2006
... own apartment. Her two friends, Susanna (Winona Ryder)
and Lisa (Angelina Jolie), flee the institution and visit her. During
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the visit, Lisa reveals the double secret connected to Daisy — her
addiction to BN and laxatives...
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Cinemactivism: Film Reform, Spectatorship, and the Cleveland Cinema Club
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 33–65.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and fact that made the
application of film to life so appealing to the CCC, the film features
Davenport as the wife of a famous lawyer whose addictions lead
him to defend drug lords. In addition, the film concludes with a
direct address by Davenport, out of character, about the dangers of
drug...
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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
... of motherhood, explored through the Sheehan family but also through the lives of those in Easttown. Mare is a sarcastic, vaping, junk-food addict whose belief that she is a failed mother is heightened by her inability to solve the case of missing teenager Katie Bailey. The series explores the devastation...
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Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in Progressive “White” Cinema: Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa and The Crying Game
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 32–48.
Published: 01 September 1995
... blind love, a sort of perma-
nent passionate obsession, for black femmes (depicted as hostile to the
white heroes, his white women characters escape this affliction). Only
mulatta lesbianhransvestites fail to find eventual sobriety in recovery
from love addiction...
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Can “We All” Get Along? Social Difference, the Future, and Strange Days
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 155–189.
Published: 01 September 2002
... investment in the public sphere. Again,
it is interesting to examine Lenny’s viewing of the newscast within
a framework of habits and addiction. While Lenny’s general use
of SQUID certainly could get him hooked on the technology, the
SQUID clips seem merely to be the vehicle for his more potent...
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The Adolescent as Postcolonial Allegory: Strategies of Intersubjectivity in Recent Portuguese Films
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 35–71.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., they start arguing: after the wedding, where Lucas
was a witness, Paulo learned that his friend had become a heroin
addict, and he reproaches him for that. Lucas, on the other hand,
accuses Paulo of being insensitive to his problems, and the friends
separate after a fight. On the doorstep Paulo finds...
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Hip-Hop Cinema in France
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 77–97.
Published: 01 May 2001
... in the majority of French films. Beur women are more
often than not relegated without exception to secondary roles, if
not simply to brief appearances as supermarket checkout girls,
prostitutes, or drug addicts. Souviens-toi de moi is exceptional in
this respect...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 219–226.
Published: 01 December 1989
... convey social relations
in general.
Showing the tape has led me to some interesting conclusions. Most
important, television has conditioned viewers across class lines and
educational backgrounds to be addicted to mainstream documentary
forms. College educated...
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