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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 129–165.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Diana W. Anselmo This article employs the concept of imitation as a lens through which the author explores the complex relationship established between the fledgling Hollywood film industry and the first generation of girls to be culturally construed as “adolescent” and “movie fans” in the US...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
Published: 01 September 2017
... by Breillat's portrayal in À ma sœur! ( Fat Girl , France, 2001) and her other films of nonnormative, even taboo subjects—the depiction of childhood and adolescent sexuality, of unsimulated sex, and of statutory rape—writings on her work have focused largely on the director's public persona and the polemics...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 69–98.
Published: 01 December 2012
...
expense of capital.”16 As long as Universal insisted on Durbin’s girl-
hood, then, it was unable to fully contain her stardom. Adolescent
girls are unpredictable, a characteristic emphasized by the happy
endings of Durbin’s early lms, which require that she...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Elspeth Mitchell Abstract One of Akerman's lesser‐known films, Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles ( Portrait of a Young Girl in the Late Sixties in Brussels , Belgium, 1993) provides a critical lens for discovering the cinéfille as a concept for Akerman's cinema...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 72–85.
Published: 01 September 1983
... of representation" as expressed in the book,
and the representation of adolescent girls in your film? Because in the
book, the relationships between the young girls and their mothers and the
middle-aged men living alone are very awkward -your treatment is quite
different.
MK: I will never acknowledge another...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 1990
... the “sex picture”-stories about gold
diggers, flappers and vamps -could lead girls into prostitution.22 Here
is how they explained the movies’ potential effect on adolescent girls:
We have noted the influence of the motion pictures in instilling desires for
clothes...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 39–71.
Published: 01 September 2007
... sold out moments after
tickets go on sale.
Although Wicked’s astonishing commercial success means
that it must attract a wide range of spectators, anyone with some
knowledge of the show is aware of its cult status among tween (pre-
adolescent) and teenage girls.8 In June 2005, for example...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 93–115.
Published: 01 December 2014
... seemingly riding on a wolf, tamed
and muzzled” (147). Martel participates in this ongoing revisionism
through the representation of girls and adolescents who are not
wimps, victims, or deserving of punishment and who never give up
loving their mothers or other women, as required by the Oedipal...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 59–79.
Published: 01 May 2014
... demonstrate, she focuses
on youth and often specifically on the experiences of girls and
young women. The subjects of her work are adolescents and young
adults in states of simultaneous becoming and entrapment, attest-
ing to both the intrinsic vitality and potentiality of youth and the
dysfunctional...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 197–227.
Published: 01 December 2001
... with characteristics of both child and adult
woman, as a “child-woman.” As I will show, even when she ostensi-
bly is cast as an adult, the grown-up Mary Pickford registers as an
adolescent “girl” or a child-woman ambiguously poised between
childhood and womanhood. As her career moved into the fea-
ture film era...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 60–71.
Published: 01 September 1983
... the
church looking through a window, two adolescent girls on a boat looking
at photographs (of Keller at their age), another, younger "pre-teenage"
girl in a swimsuit (with her back to the camera), old home-movie footage
(again, of Keller), the Statue of Liberty, a nude woman walking...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 25–59.
Published: 01 December 2007
... another example of the contingency of fantasy — that its
pleasure is fluid and revisionary, locating the subject in the role of
the spectator or in the role of the masochistic male “whipping boy”
(adolescent girls finding their masochism in the Freudian male
homosexual role or in the role...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2007
... is generated in the intense bond between adolescent girl
audiences and the divas onstage that encourages “the love between
Introduction • 5
girl friends” as part of establishing strong female communities.
Gay male interpretive communities...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2005
... by adolescents (“That was incredible”; “How many
points do you give me?” “A zillion”; “We are a perfect couple18
The absence of images suggests the impossibility of a visual refer-
ent for the girls’ idealized collective sexual fantasy. The second
sequence begins with the appearance of images on the three...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 31–61.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of the contaminations of social desire through transforming a distance between subject and natural world into a distance that not only respects the natural world but also the prerogatives and rights of the individual—in this case adolescent girls who have been institutionalized in a “Youth Center for Social Therapy...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 133–163.
Published: 01 May 2023
... for an adolescent girl in the United States. Thus, the disjunctures that characterize the film's narrative tracks become a point of alternative connection, a space of communion and emotional resonance between Meinhof and Rainer. Before she can create new connections, however, Rainer first needs to dismantle...
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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 37–77.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Poupée), 1936/1949,
and figure 36, La Poupée, 1934. Those dolls of Bellmer that are
comparable to the imagery of Daisies’s two Maries are figure 23,
Doll (La Poupée), 1935, and figure 24, Doll (La Poupée), 1935,
both of which show two pairs of adolescent girls’ legs, at once...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 35–71.
Published: 01 September 2005
...
The Adolescent as Postcolonial
Allegory: Strategies of
Intersubjectivity in Recent
Portuguese Films
Carolin Overhoff Ferreira
Some of the most interesting Portuguese feature films of the
1990s are preoccupied with the representation of adolescents and
the way in which they try to construct...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2011
... films —The Virgin Suicides (US, 1999), Lost in
Translation, and Marie Antoinette — as a trilogy concerned with
the experience of adolescent girls becoming women.
56. Woodworth, “A Feminist Theorization,” 159.
57. The homoerotic undertones of this scene wherein women’s
lips...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Smells Bad, New Moon Crew
Members Say,” MTV, May www.mtv.com/news/
articlesstory.jhtml.
The scene actually generated some thoughts among reviewers
about what adolescent girls really want from a story that denies
them physical excitement but instead offers them a mixture...
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