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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 63–93.
Published: 01 December 2011
... a fundamental shift in the older conception of the performance artwork as a unique event. The article explores the way in which both reperformance and pornography are characterized by a mode of reception in which a document of a past performance becomes the occasion for the creation of new affect in the present...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 25–59.
Published: 01 September 2012
... that these films are both recognizable to and somewhat outside world cinema categories, I suggest ways of reading the spectral affects of the films that account for the complex, conflicting forms of spirituality, eroticism, and transgression that make them so popular with their audiences. This type of a reading...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 165–195.
Published: 01 May 2023
... shared image of a young woman holding a sign with the phrase at a rally in Texas, I discuss the communal charge of what I call tough girl affect—a politically saturated vibe, touting a notably youthful, right-wing femininity that is deliberately feisty, fun, and provocative, yet compliant with the hetero...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 173–197.
Published: 01 September 2023
...David Stephens Abstract This article examines the role of affect in making possible or impossible particular political visions. It uses Johari Idusuyi's 2015 protest at a Donald Trump rally to discuss how individual affects and microaggressions culminate in larger political boundaries that prevent...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of the material object of research, and it attempts, instead, to account for affect. In the absence of a complete audiovisual record, the passionate sites of embodied feeling experienced, remembered, and misremembered by the subjects of this history (including the author) become a way to reinscribe this history...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Alessa Dominguez This article examines Bravo's Real Housewives franchise (2006–) to theorize the aesthetic, affective, and performance qualities of docusoap televisuality. It argues that the franchise functions through a financial and affective economy of “money shots,” or moments of predictably...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 105–139.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Lyndon ” will appear in Kubrick in Perspective , a forthcoming collection from Cambridge University Press.
Free Indirect Affect in Cassavetes’
Opening Night and Faces
Homay King
How to make the affect echo?
—Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes
by Roland Barthes...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2010
... & Event . From Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, US, 1982)
Affects of the Gaze: Post-Oedipal
Desire and the Traversal
of Fantasy in Blade Runner
Richard Pope
Despite the vagaries of the film and its reception, within the uni-
versity a consensus interpretation of Blade Runner (dir...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Is to Increase Its Profits,” New York Times Magazine , 13 September 1970. 5. Kalindi Vora, “The Transmission of Care: Affective Economies and Indian Call Centers,” in Intimate Labors (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010): 33–48. 4. Jan M. Padios, “Mining the Mind: Emotional Extraction...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 101–127.
Published: 01 May 2015
... in defending the show's use of “guido.” This notion of care needs to be understood in a double sense: care as a regimen of behaviors, or an ethos, and care as a set of affections, or feeling. On Jersey Shore “taking care of oneself” does not just involve certain affect-techniques but is itself a technology...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 37–67.
Published: 01 May 2013
... that contribute to a nuanced meditation on women's experience of conjugal and family life. While much of the literature on melodrama draws on psychoanalysis and theories of spatiality, this article develops three distinct yet interrelated temporal and affective readings: Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogism and Virginia...
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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 (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 141–151.
Published: 01 December 2016
... perspectives. Such issues include the process of urban redevelopment in Seoul, the global environmental crisis, utopian aspirations in the neoliberal economy, and the Korean authorities' ideological control of citizenship. The collective's imperative to engender sensory and affective engagement...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
... diversity, these co-constructing representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality maintain whiteness as sexual modernity’s affective core. Modern Family thus expresses the ideological contours of mainstream diversity politics. However, its narrative efforts to synthesize its contradictions reflect...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 71–99.
Published: 01 May 2015
... is instrumental to theorizing addictive spectatorship, a concept that takes seriously the notion that television may act affectively as a drug. Recovery television, it claims, helps viewers negotiate their own relationship to television consumption. Furthermore, such a negotiation augments notions of neoliberal...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 71–102.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Shannan Hayes Abstract This essay develops a theory of Mika Rottenberg's video art by attending to both the content her work represents (neoliberalism's logic of gendered labor) and the formal characteristics by which her art affects (sensibly drawing the viewer in while resisting assimilation...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 41–73.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... This essay considers how Rottenberg's stagings of industrial production lines engage with post-Fordist phenomena such as deindustrialization and affective labor. In works such as Time and a Half, Mary's Cherries, Tropical Breeze , and Dough , Rottenberg conveys the incongruity between industrial production...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 29–67.
Published: 01 December 2011
...,” viewers and critics are unaware of the extent to which the film draws on Bollywood's affective economy, generic idioms, and performance traditions. Few would recognize that the heroine Satine's transformation from conniving showgirl to tragic heroine recalls the tawaif (courtesan) figure in popular Hindi...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... The article concludes by arguing that Born into Brothels puts to work the immaterial or affective labor of children in the production of cultural commodities as a humane and “empowering” alternative to coerced sex work. This move to mobilize the child as a new figure of economic promise indicates the vexed...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 173–181.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Carmen Durán and Lourdes Luján who challenge the power of corporate globalization as they struggle to ameliorate its affects and rebuild their lives and their communities. In this interview, Funari and de la Torre discuss their close collaboration with maquiladora workers/community activists, some...
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