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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
...China Medel This article examines the role of image culture in producing collective memory and opportunities for transnational solidarity in Alex Rivera’s science fiction film about the US-Mexico borderlands, Sleep Dealer (US/Mexico, 2008). The article shows that the film offers two contrasting...
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in Revisiting Queer and Trans Representation in Junior
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2. Nightmare sequence in which Dr. Alex Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is shocked to find his exact likeness on his newborn's face. Junior (dir. Ivan Reitman, US, 1994)
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Alex Pittman Abstract This article offers a political reading of In the Company of Men (dir. William Greaves, US, 1969), an industrial human relations and training film that Newsweek magazine commissioned the renowned black American filmmaker William Greaves to make. Tasked by his sponsors...
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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 (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
... classes and ethnic groups, but the
narrative revises this drama so that it centers on the conflicts
attending the couple’s HIV-discordant status. Nathalie (Prisca
Maceleney), a young woman from a wealthy Bété family, and Alex
AIDS in the City • 45...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and Jeremy Maguire); Jay’s adult daughter Claire (Julie
Bowen), her husband Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell), and their three
children Haley (Sarah Hyland), Alex (Ariel Winter), and Luke
(Nolan Gould); and Jay’s adult son Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson),
his partner- turned- husband Cameron “Cam” Tucker...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 12–41.
Published: 01 May 1994
..., was betrayed by
Devlin, married a man named Alex who was connected to enemies of
the US, was almost poisoned by Alex’s female relative, and was rescued
by Devlin. The script’s victimization of Alicia and its reliance on a
“white knight” to save her presented serious departures from Lifetime’s...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 167–168.
Published: 01 May 2013
... © 2013 by Camera Obscura 2013
In Memoriam:
Alexander Doty, 1954 – 2012
It is with deep sadness that the editors of Camera Obscura note the
sudden passing of Alexander Doty. A leader in feminist and queer
studies as well as film, television, and media studies, Alex, after...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 137–159.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to live with and
acknowledge the repetitions of the everyday. In Please Give, this
<fig. 2 cap.>Streets of London, Children of process takes the form of Kate and Alex (Oliver Platt) interacting
Men (2006) at home and work over the shared parts of their lives: their teen...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2005
..., although locally forward—cause pre-
cedes effect within the twelve narrative blocks, but effect precedes
cause in the relationship between adjacent structural elements.
As the film moves forward in our time, backward in its, we find
out that Marcus’s girlfriend, Alex (Monica Bellucci), was violently...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
... surprising that witches have enjoyed a resurgence
of late in US film and television products.40
The gendered implications of witches and witchcraft are
even more prominent in Paranormal Activity 4, which features
another nuclear family consisting of a teenaged girl, Alex (Kathryn
Newton), her...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 152–155.
Published: 01 January 1992
... a part
of a video collective because of my volunteer work with AIDS. That
was the Women’s Video AIDS Enterprise (WAVE). This was a project
that allowed me to meet the producer Alex Juhasz, who turned out to
be not only a great friend, but a great mentor. The first time she...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 129–155.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 2. Nightmare sequence in which Dr. Alex Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is shocked to find his exact likeness on his newborn's face. Junior (dir. Ivan Reitman, US, 1994) ...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 116–131.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., a cypherpunk film that imagines a post- AIDS future in 2060. In 2019, she presented 3×3×6, a large- scale mixed- media installation representing Taiwan in the Venice Biennale. In the spring of 2018, following FLUIDØ s premiere at the Berlinale, Cheang reached out to her friend and colleague Alex- andra...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 111–135.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., the Pursuits of Happiness, and the Spaces Between • 121
Canyon, it is Alex (Kate Beckinsale); and in The Kids Are All Right, it
is Paul. But The Kids Are All Right works somewhat differently from
the previous two films. Its difference is not simply a matter of the
apparent flip that makes...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 123–130.
Published: 01 September 2011
... (divorce, custody
battles, substance abuse, bad behavior, etc.) but also Spears’s coun-
ternarrative of control. Spears’s 2007 song was described by Alex
Fletcher of Digital Spy
as “a two fingered-
salute to the media
hounds” and a “cry
of defiance,”10 and
the song skillfully...
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 235–249.
Published: 01 September 1985
...).
But the analysis proceeds to show how Foucault’s theories of bodies and
pleasure turn out to be only “good and useful for Alex, and very clearly
bad, in fact impossible, for Milena.” It is this discovery of Foucault’s
phallocentrism (I think this is what de Lauretis is implying about his
theories...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 42–75.
Published: 01 May 1994
... that tries to shed some light
on criminal behavior so as to help women better
protect them~elves
As reported by former publicist C. Alex Wagner, Lifetime’s in-house research
showed that both the “mystery and suspense” genre and the “reality” show
have been...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 31–68.
Published: 01 January 1996
... the following words in the
mouth of the jilted Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) on her cassette tape to
Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) just after she has blown up his car:
"You're a cocksucking son of a bitch I bet you don't even like
girls, do you? You flaming, fucking faggot...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 167–170.
Published: 01 December 2006
.... In the early eighties, a bunch of feminists got together
in New York and thrashed out how best to draw media attention
to the threats then looming against abortion rights. Ellen Wil-
lis, Annie Snitow, Judith Levine, Temma Kaplan, Carole Vance,
Karen Durbin, Alex Kates Shulman, Vanalyne Green, Joan Bra...
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