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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 103–131.
Published: 01 May 2023
... theories of language and relationality as well as on the writing of scholars working at the intersection of reproductive biology and feminist philosophy, the essay argues that Arrival uses some of the generic features of science fiction cinema (alien encounter and time travel) to articulate a feminist...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 75–102.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Robert Markley Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 Incubation Chamber by Jeffrey Westover, 1997. Courtesy of the artist.
Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the
Paranoid Structure of History
Robert Markley
At the beginning of every episode, viewers...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 6–35.
Published: 01 December 1986
...Vivian Sobchack © 1986 by Camera Obscura 1986 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
Child! Alien 1Father: Pa triarchal Crisis
and Generic Exchange
Vivian Sobchack
Two very special babies were born to the American cinema in 1968:
Rosemary’s and Stanley...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 86–109.
Published: 01 December 1986
...Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D. © 1986 by Camera Obscura 1986
Reimagining the Gargoyle:
Psychoanalytic Notes on Alien
Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D.
I admire its purity. . . a survivor, unclouded by
conscience, remorse or delusions...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 129–160.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Sarah L. Higley
From Descarte’s Trait6 de f’homme
Alien Intellect and the
Roboticization of the Scientist
Sarah L. Higley
Reproduction is diabolical in its very essence.
It makes something fundamental vacillate...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 180–198.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Shohini Chaudhuri I
Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996)
Visit of the Body Snatchers: Alien Invasion
Themes in Vampire Narratives
Shohini Chaudhuri
There looms, within abjection, one of those vio...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 69–107.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., “Horizons of Violence: Infanticidal Limits of Evolution and Culture.” Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien Resurrection
(dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, US, 1997)
Conceptions and Contraceptions
of the Future: Terminator 2, The
Matrix, and Alien Resurrection
A. Samuel Kimball
The future can only...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 243–274.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Tabitha Goode Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 Camosaur 2 (Louis Morneau, 1995)
Roswell-The Footage: Alien Autopsy (1995).
Abstract Representational Space:
Uncanny Aliens and Others
(Pandora, or Prometheus’s Return)
Tabitha Goode...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 4–14.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Thomas DiPiero; Rajani Sudan Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 Original design by Tom Pribyl, from a photo by Thomas DiPiero
Angels Dinosaurs Aliens
Thomas DiPiero and Rajani Sudan
Fifty years ago, some people believe, an alien spacecraft crashed...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 42–74.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Jodi Dean Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 Swamp Gas by Jeffrey Westover, 1997. Courtesy of the artist.
The Truth is Out There: Aliens and the
Fugitivity of Postmodern Truth
Jodi Dean
Arrival
Aliens have invaded the United States. They swarmed over...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 4–40.
Published: 01 September 1993
...Robert Miklitsch Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
Total Recall: Production, Revolution,
Simulation-Alienation Effect
Robert Miklitsch
The men of Earth came to Mars. They came
because...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 195–225.
Published: 01 December 2001
... an article in Discourse on the film Suture and its treatment of race. 06-Burns.sh 194-225=32pg 4/18/01 4:03 PM Page 194
06-Burns.sh 194-225=32pg 4/18/01 4:03 PM Page 195
Erasure: Alienation, Paranoia,
and the Loss of Memory in
The X-Files...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2008
... the notion of the stranger. Coincidence in this case would seem to satisfy a contemporary desire for recognition and connection among strangers, which the film would then exploit for its melodramatic potential. Yet far from facilitating a purely utopian meditation on countering the alienating structures...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 11–45.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., it was also often the precondition for varieties of hostility, alienation, violation, and surveillance. I conclude with Horne's self-revision of these aloof performances as she articulated a new relationship with her audiences during the civil rights movement and after. Camera Obscura 2008 Shane...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 187–193.
Published: 01 September 2016
... contemporary articulations of queerness and queer sex rest on notions of opacity. This mirrors the production of plastic and the ways in which this alienated material has influenced our lives. Given this congruence, what might be borrowed from the figure of plastic for contemporary politics and organizing...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 163–183.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of alienation, repetition, and permutation; in inventing shots that point to the lacking and the missing; in transmitting unexpected voices and sounds; and in creating hybrid forms of unadaptable identities, Akerman unflinchingly produces forms of persistent memories. The following short texts...
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in Watching Women: Surveillance and Spectatorship in Early Science Fiction Television
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. In “O.B.I.T.,” a US Defense Department employee surveils the wife of a government scientist through a mysterious alien technology designed to tear human society apart. “O.B.I.T.,” season 1, episode 7 of The Outer Limits , dir. Gerd Oswald, writ. Meyer Dolinski and Leslie Stevens, ABC
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 163–164.
Published: 01 September 1999
...
Endangered Humans?: Wired Bodies and the Human Wilds in Carnosaur,
Carnosaur 2, and 12 Monkeys. No. 40-41; pp. 227-244.
Berglund, Jeff
"The Secret's in the Sauce": Dismembering Normativity in Fried Green
Tomatoes. No. 42; pp. 125-159.
Chaudhuri, Shohini
Visit of the Body Snatchers: Alien...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 36–65.
Published: 01 December 1986
.... Films like Blade Runner (1982), Alien (1979), The Road
Warrior (1981), Liquid Sky (1982), and The Man Who Fell to Earth
(1976; re-released several years later in a long version) have a visual
presence in keeping with perceptually aggressive and imaginative media
advertising. Although...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 109–153.
Published: 01 September 2002
... represent them in film and visual media) and an essay on body transformation in early cinema. An alien spaceship hovers over New York City in
Independence Day (dir. Roland Emmerich, US, 1996).
Spectacles of History:
Race Relations, Melodrama, and
the Science Fiction/Disaster Film
Despina...
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