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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 25–59.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Lindsey Green-Simms This essay examines the aesthetic dimensions of the “occult melodramas” of West African video-films by discussing how filmmakers use the technology of video to recreate the sensuous impact of daily rumors that speak to spiritual and socioeconomic anxieties. Given...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 84–117.
Published: 01 September 1995
...Lisbeth Gant-Britton Molzday’s Girls (Ngozi Onwurah, 1993)
African Women and Visual Culture:
A Sample Syllabus
Lis beth Gant-Britton
Go to any cinema in the United States-or other western country for
that matter-and the odds are extremely slim that you will see any...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 69–99.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Diana Adesola Mafe Twentieth-century British and US films about Africa have been predominantly racist productions that employ what Kenneth Cameron calls archetypes—the White Queen, the White Hunter, the Good African, the Dangerous African, and so on. This article explores the mise-en-scène...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 37–61.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Courtney R. Baker Recent African American film scholarship has called for an attention to the structures of black representation on screen. This work echoes the calls made in the 1990s by black feminist film and cultural scholars to resist the allure of reading for racial realism and to develop...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 125–157.
Published: 01 September 2020
... A Different Image (1982), and Zeinabu irene Davis’s Cycles (1989). Each of these films’ renderings of Afrocentric feminist aesthetics—through attention to African oral and mythical traditions, African and Pan-African-inflected mise-en-scène, rich col-oration and film stock, and play with nonlinear...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Christine Cynn In Francophone West Africa, bilateral and multilateral HIV prevention focuses on combating stigma, increasing awareness, and encouraging safer sexual practices, especially through the use of mass media. This approach works in the service of neoliberal mandates to produce African...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of these discussions and explore their interrelations, by looking at the film through a history and analysis of cinematic reflexivity. As a metacinematic work both by and about an African American lesbian director, the film has much to say about the means of its own production and, even further, about the way...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to be shaped by this very difference. Further, through initiatives like the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement, networks of filmmakers and film enthusiasts from communities historically mis- or underrepresented in film are beginning to shift the constitution of festival audiences and thereby...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2015
... African American music. To unpack these connections, BREAKAWAY is analyzed in the context of two contemporary films in which Basil played significant roles: The T.A.M.I. Show (dir. Steve Binder, US, 1964), a groundbreaking concert film that signaled a new era of on-screen racial integration...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 49–65.
Published: 01 September 1995
....
The next two images are individual shots of the white and African-
American female co-stars. Again, neither is privileged, but the posi-
tioning of the white woman’s image as the first human form we see
seems to associate her with the mansion and grounds, while the
African American woman’s...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 116–131.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Julia Erhart
Picturing What If:
Julie Dash's Speculative Fiction
Julia Erhart
The first feature-length film by an African-American woman to gain
nationwide critical recognition as well as national theatrical release,
Daughters ofthe Dust was already the focus of considerable...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 6–11.
Published: 01 September 1995
... with con-
temporary Black woman filmmaker Cauleen Smith on the importance
of avoiding stereotypical depictions of African Americans in film and
other forms of visual culture. MacDonald and Smith talk of the heavy
burden and responsibility placed on filmmakers by audiences to pro...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 154.
Published: 01 September 1995
... the contemporary politics of racial, cultural,
and economic representation in institutional structures for art exhibition.
Lisbeth Gant-Britton is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University
of Southern California’s School of Cinema and Television, where she teaches
African-American...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 35–71.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Press
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36 • Camera Obscura
adolescent’s complicated transitional identity faced with crises of
family, unemployment, and migration. The characters featured in
these films come from notably marginalized populations—like the
African ghettos in Lisbon, the middle- and working-class homes...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 262–289.
Published: 01 January 1992
... of the promise of good pay. You have been positioned in front
of the camera, and you are thinking about how cold it is: you can’t
believe that you have to live here in this reconstruction of a West
African village, crowded with these other West African people, some
of whom don’t even speak Wolof...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 48–70.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Laura Mulvey Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993
Xala, Ousmane Sembene (1974): The
Carapace That Failed
Laura Mulvey
The film language of Xala can be constructed on
the model of an African poetic form called “sem...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 31–71.
Published: 01 May 2002
... “Pictures of
Their Voices,” the studio’s caption reads: “Victoria Spivey and
Daniel Haynes look at a sound track of their voices in Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer’s ‘Hallelujah The photo economically figures
the discursive link created—by studios, critics, and the popular
press—between African American...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 6–23.
Published: 01 May 1995
.... Young African-Ameri-
cans, Latinos, Chicanos, and Asian Americans experience their daily
8 lives, to say nothing of the means by which they develop political
strategies of resistance and survival, in decidedly ambivalent ways.
For African-Americans or Latinos partial economic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 12–31.
Published: 01 September 1995
... of the American public to spend money on health and
beauty aides, in general, is related to the obsessive belief that external
attributes are definitive of self and identity. More specifically, the
popularity of health and beauty aides within African American com- 15
munities is connected...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 125–155.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... At the same time,
Andy’s reference to the legal act that ended slavery in a show that
features almost no African American characters — Flip Conroy
(Rockne Tarkington), the first and only African American charac-
ter, appears in the 1966 – 67 season — reveals the inferentially racist
discourses...