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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 65–91.
Published: 01 December 2014
... aesthetic a cinematic exploration of écriture féminine . While studying the film's experimental cinematography, its carefully thought-out costume and set design, and its deliberately naive acting style, we find particularly noteworthy the filmmakers' employment of color. Fruit 's chromatic experimentation...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the confines of institutional power. Figure 1. Taxi, North Adams, part of Haha’s Taxi (2003 – 4).
Courtesy of Haha
Slips, Breaks, and Tangles:
Creative Collaboration
and the Aesthetic Process
of Trans-Subjectivity
April Durham
As a form of creative practice, collaboration holds...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 43–75.
Published: 01 May 2004
.... James Ivory, UK, 1992)
Recovering the Lone Mother:
Howards End As
Aesthetic Anodyne
E. Kim Stone
On 12 February 1993, two ten-year-old boys lured two-year-old
James Bulger out of a shopping mall in England and dragged him
two miles to a railway yard, where they threw...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 29–67.
Published: 01 December 2011
... as structure. This article suggests that Moulin Rouge! is indeed global cinema in the sense that it weds two cinematic traditions—Bollywood and Hollywood—yet it is hardly a marriage of equals. The global cinematic aesthetic Luhrmann promotes relies on Bollywood elements primarily to revivify Hollywood...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Beyoncé staged through collaborations with Warsan Shire, a British poet born in Kenya to Somali parents; Awol Erizku, an Ethiopian-born American artist raised in the Bronx; and Daniela Vesco, a Costa Rican photographer. This collective of artists forge a black aesthetics at a heightened level...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 57–91.
Published: 01 December 2004
... by the media and further washed out and
disfigured by video reproduction in Superstar: The Karen
Carpenter Story.
Grainy Days and Mondays:
Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics
Lucas Hilderbrand
The year is 1970, and suddenly the nation finds itself asking
the question, “What if, instead...
Journal Article
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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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... “The Stapler,”
season 1, episode 6 of The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
(2011 – 13), 8 July 2011
Precarious-Girl Comedy:
Issa Rae, Lena Dunham,
and Abjection Aesthetics
Rebecca Wanzo
Comedy has long trafficked in shame and abjection to produce
laughter. Shame may...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 153–163.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to illuminate the economic and political implications of the media collective's recently developed digital platform. It argues that this distribution format extends the logic of the collective, which has informed both New Day's institutional culture and its dominant aesthetics. Drawing on interviews with key...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2007
...). The Day I Became a Woman (dir. Marziyeh Meshkini, Iran, 2000)
Allegory and the Aesthetics
of Becoming-Woman in
Marziyeh Meshkini’s
The Day I Became a Woman
Michelle Langford
Why should I stop, why?
The birds have gone off to find water ways
the horizon is vertical and moving...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
Published: 01 September 2009
... rhetoric of value, proposing that the “pretty” as a recurrent taste category in film reveals an imbrication of gender, sexuality, and race in the construction of the cinematic image itself. Analysis of the pretty's antecedents in histories of art demonstrates how colonial and patriarchal modes of aesthetic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2004
... feminism and terrorism, and on the representation of car crashes in photography, film, and literature. Figure 1. Protestors at Tucker’s execution
Dead Woman Glowing:
Karla Faye Tucker and
the Aesthetics of
Death Row Photography
Karen Beckman
On 3 February 1998, the state of Texas...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 77–105.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Kata Kyrölä Abstract This article examines the Swedish fantasy‐horror‐romance film Gräns ( Border , dir. Ali Abbasi, 2018) through queer Indigenous thought and the notion of trans aesthetics, exploring how the film may sensitize its viewers to seeing and feeling with gender variance, queer desire...
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in Calculating Couples: Computing Intimacy and 1980s Romance Software
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 1. Software cover art for IntraCourse (Intracorp, 1986) resembles the aesthetics of popular sex manuals like The Joy of Sex , by Alex Comfort (1972).
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
... spaces and aesthetics for producing collective memory that differently configure spectatorial interaction and social intervention. Counterposing the hyperindustrialized military vision of the fictional reality TV show Drones with the social media–styled memory market TruNode, the film’s caricature...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 41–69.
Published: 01 September 2019
....” It asks: How do activist media (makers) respond to the appropriation of liberal values? What language—visual, affective, political—do they use to remain morally and aesthetically legible to a wider public and majoritarian decision-makers while insisting on the need for structural transformation? To work...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 125–157.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Jamie Ann Rogers This article traces the development of Afrocentric feminist aesthetics within the LA Rebellion, a film movement made up primarily of Black film students at UCLA from 1970 to the late 1980s. It argues that these aesthetics are integral to the movement’s heterogeneous but radical...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 31–61.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Rebecca A. Sheehan Abstract This article considers the cinematic works of the contemporary American artist Sharon Lockhart in the context of what it identifies as philosophies and practices of “the casual,” from the impact of Emersonian aesthetics on post – World War II American avant‐garde cinema...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 123–130.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... In all these cases, vids serve both to magnify and to aestheticize the audience's readings of the mass media. The three essays address different aspects of this practice and its surrounding culture. Francesca Coppa explores the historical and sociopolitical implications of a female-dominated art form...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 131–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
... political failings. In all these cases, vids serve both to magnify and to aestheticize the audience's readings of the mass media. The three essays address different aspects of this practice and its surrounding culture. Francesca Coppa explores the historical and sociopolitical implications of a female...
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