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The Reserve Army of Affectivity: Unemployed Labor in William Greaves's Psychodramatic Cinéma Vérité

Alex Pittman
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9561409
Published: 01 May 2022
... affective labor cinéma vérité psychodrama training film In the Company of Men is a complex document of racial liberalism's contradictions during its waning years. On one hand, Greaves's film works within the limits of corporate sponsorship to destigmatize the images of unemployed black men...
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Together Apart: FemTechNet and Feminist Online Collectives

Elizabeth Losh
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 133–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3662048
Published: 01 December 2016
... of knowledge production. Although more robust teleconferencing technologies have improved experiences of copresence for participants, stymied platform design, weak options for sustainability, exhaustion from affective labor, and scarce resources for community management continue to be challenges. Figure 1...
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Mika Rottenberg's Productive Bodies

Hsuan L. Hsu
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 41–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-002
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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Immaterial Child Labor: Media Advocacy, Autoethnography, and the Case of Born into Brothels

Pooja Rangan
Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-012
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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The Only Way Out Is In: Girl 6 , Sex Work, and the Color Line

Anthony Reed
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 1–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2704616
Published: 01 September 2014
... style. The article concludes by briefly tracing Girl 6 's representational logics through Lee's controversial She Hate Me (US, 2004), which again uses the spectacle of sexual availability to underscore the creation of the private sphere as affective labor. Ultimately, this article argues...
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Sentimental Activism as Queer-Feminist Documentary Practice; or, How to Make Love in a Room Full of People

Feng-Mei Heberer
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 41–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7584904
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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Biopolitical Masochism in Marina Abramović's The Artist Is Present

Jaime Brunton
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 63–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3776868
Published: 01 May 2017
...- ship, and reaps major profits for both Abramovi´c and her gallery representative, Sean Kelly), the affective relations produced by the mutual labor of artist and audience in the service of presence nec- essarily exceed the exchange of capital. To an extent, of course, all art produces affective...
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Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet

Nazli Akhtari
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013590
Published: 01 December 2022
.... Such overlaps pose critical questions about gender vis-à-vis production, labor, and computation within both carpets and computers as media. I center one particular indie example among many social media variations that remix with Qajar photographs because it offers affective and subversive potential for its...
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“Scotch! Scotch! Scotch!”: The Inoperative Domestic Scene in Chantal Akerman's Saute ma ville

Eleanor Rowe-Stefanik
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 55–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278586
Published: 01 May 2023
... in recording female domestic life, I propose that Saute ma ville displays the potentiality for domestic labor itself to be a destituent practice, rather than an expected component of reproductive, conventionally gendered work. The way that Akerman mobilizes the inoperative actions of her protagonist — a “girl...
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Big Affect: The Ephemeral Archive of Second-Wave Feminist Video Collectives in Canada

Marusya Bociurkiw
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3661991
Published: 01 December 2016
... funding for community cable access projects, and provincial arts funding in Québec is also among the strongest in Canada. Affective Labor There may be an affective reason for the Québec groups’ survival, in that they share a francophone culture that privileges extended mealtimes...
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Machinic Intimacies and Mechanical Brides: Collectivity between Prosthesis and Surrogacy in Jonathan Mostow's Surrogates and Spike Jonze's Her

Alla Ivanchikova
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 65–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454430
Published: 01 May 2016
... is a part of this networked economy; he is an affective laborer who writes personal letters for people who are unable to write such let- ters themselves. Putting his soul to work during business hours, Theodore resorts to purely transactional encounters after hours. Theodore’s frustrated attempt...
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Art on Film at Finch College: Reproductive Labor in the Enrichment Economy

Tim Ridlen
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 81–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278600
Published: 01 May 2023
.... In the 1970s, the International Wages for Housework movement began to challenge this idea. Feminist thinkers like Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James wrote about “the social factory” that produces workers before they even leave the house. 6 In some instances this has been theorized as affective labor...
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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

Alessa Dominguez
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2885486
Published: 01 May 2015
..., despite some limited self-r­eflexivity about affect and media, the franchise prefers to obscure the labor and financial aspects that fuel the melodramatic money shot. The reunion episodes provide an element of televisual self-­reflexivity that may not fully disrupt catharsis in a Brechtian manner but does...
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Wages for Face-Work: Black Mirror ’s “Nosedive” and Digital Reproductive Labor

Erin Greer
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 88–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631571
Published: 01 December 2020
... boards and wikis, are laborious and gen- erate value for an economic system that does not remunerate those who perform these labors. She also insists on taking seriously the positive affects generated by digital work, drawing selectively from the tradition associated with WfH in order to argue...
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Slips, Breaks, and Tangles: Creative Collaboration and the Aesthetic Process of Trans-Subjectivity

April Durham
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3662000
Published: 01 December 2016
... in ways that exceed the limits imposed by normative social-­networking practices, which I argue resists the capture of affective labor to multiply and transform the subject into both an object and a networked social body. As we will see, beyond and beside the actions of those who...
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Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes, Postfeminism, and the Birth of Social Networking Technologies

Jonathan Cohn
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 151–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2209943
Published: 01 September 2013
... feminine pragmatics and affective labor. Indeed, Maes celebrates the pragmatics of the Media Lab specifically because of its associa- tion with those traditional forms of femininity and feminine labor that are also embraced by postfeminist culture. In the process, she 160  •  Camera Obscura ties...
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“I’m Washing My Dishes and Making a Movie”: Anne Charlotte Robertson and World-Making as Women’s Work

Anjo-marí Gouws
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 60–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631559
Published: 01 December 2020
... can be said to have focused on the contradiction between processes of capital accumulation and social reproduction, or, as David Staples succinctly suggests: The spectre of women s work haunts capitalism. Kathi Weeks, Life within and against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post...
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A Feminist Still: Documentary Form and Untimely Critique in Sheba Chhachhi’s Protest Photography

Lakshmi Padmanabhan
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631535
Published: 01 December 2020
...- ing somber and downcast or screaming into the camera with their hands raised. Often, the same subjects are reproduced at slightly different angles and varying camera distances. Taken in aggre- gate, the slew of images reveals the affective rhythms produced through choices of camera framing...
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Sex on the Shore: Care and the Ethics of License in Jersey Shore

Misha Kavka
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 101–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2885464
Published: 01 May 2015
... of License in Jersey Shore  • 117 eras throughout the house serves to amplify rather than dampen the affective labor involved in building a community ethos. The housemates must not only develop the collective meanings and values that will allow them to get along as a group, developing...
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Diversity Times Three: The “ Modern Family Effect” and the Privatization of Diversity

Douglas S. Ishii
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4205066
Published: 01 December 2017
... of high culture, comparatively racializing the affective labor of Gloria’s fiery but maternal Latinidad — a recurring joke fully narrated in “Flip Flop” — to make white resentment appear as inclusion. As Molina- Guzmán argues, Gloria participates in the legacy of the Latina spitfire...
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