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Kate and Allie: “New Women” and the Audience's Television Archive
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 154–168.
Published: 01 January 1988
...Robert H. Deming Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Kate and Allie
Kate and Allie: "New Women" and the
Audience's Television Archive
Robert H. Deming
Network television rediscovered the "new woman" again in the Fall 1984
season. Several prime...
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Imperceptibility and Accumulation: Political Strategies of Plastic
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 187–193.
Published: 01 September 2016
... describes plastic's movement through the world and its durability. Accumulation asks for a reconsideration of political allies. Finally, nonfilial progeny offers a speculative intervention toward developing a feminist sense of responsibility for and relation to a future that is increasingly marked by loss...
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Cinema, Taliban, and Being a Woman in Today's Afghanistan: An Interview with Sahraa Karimi
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 203–212.
Published: 01 December 2023
... have worked so hard to build as a filmmaker in my country is at risk of falling. . . . I do not understand this world. I do not understand this silence. I will stay and fight for my country, but I cannot do it alone. I need allies like you. Please help us get this world to care about what is happening...
FIGURES
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Sex and the Singled Girl: Queer Representation and Containment in Single White Female
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 31–68.
Published: 01 January 1996
... the "single white female" that we are
promised, in the person of New York software designerlfashion con-
sultant Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda). By demanding that Alli's emo-
tional and sexual ties to others be severed, the narrative ensures that
a "single" subject emerges. But by depicting sex...
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Jealous Schoolgirls, Single White Females, and Other Bad Examples: Rethinking Gender and Envy
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 177–229.
Published: 01 September 2001
... that Single White Female’s plot turns on an initially happy
domestic alliance between Allie and Hedy gradually becoming
“conflicted” to the point that envious Hedy ends up bludgeon-
ing Allie’s best friend and neighbor and leaving him for dead,
stabbing Allie’s boyfriend through the eye with the heel...
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Inhabiting the Phallus: Reading Safe Is Desire
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 132–160.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Mary T. Conway Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996
Inhabiting the Phallus: Reading Safe Is Desire
Mary T. Conway
Allie: I'm a city girl.
Dionne: You don't camp?
Allie: Unhuh...
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Rape and War, Gender and Nation, Victims and Victimizers: Helke Sander's BeFreier und Befreite
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 99–141.
Published: 01 May 2001
...?
—Ingeburg Menz
Introduction to a Controversy
The statement above was made by Ingeburg Menz, a German
woman raped at the end of World War II, when the Allied Forces
swept through Germany.1 Menz’s remarks were solicited by the
director Helke...
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Editorial: Television and the Female Consumer
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 4–8.
Published: 01 January 1988
... of postwar America. Robert Deming considers
how feminism has been popularized on the TV sit-com Kate and Allie,
which, he argues, recycles discourses of the "new woman" found in earlier
television programs and in magazines like Ms. He claims that women
understand Kate and Allie...
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Men in Feminism
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 206–214.
Published: 01 May 1988
... acceptance and some male allies,
might be losing its autonomy or direction. Specifically, are the allies
and the acceptance only “theoretical,” in the double sense of (1) re-
stricted to a specialized plane of genderless abstraction and (2)unable
to connect up with other feminist practice...
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Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 222.
Published: 01 May 1995
... ofPostimperial Austrian Identity (Ariadne,
1996). He will join Ally Acker in penning the second edition of her Reel
Women: Pioneers ofthe Cinema 1896 to the Present.
Julia Erhart is a Lecturer in the Department of ScreenStudiesat FlindersUniversity,
Adelaie, Australia. She...
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Me and a Rifle (and an IDF Soldier on My Back)
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 161–163.
Published: 01 September 2012
...
it all begins again.
Notes
1. IDF stands for Israeli Defense Forces.
2. Ally McBeal, Fox Network, 1997 – 2002. ...
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Quality versus Relevance : Feminism, Race, and the Politics of the Sign in 1970s Television
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 45–93.
Published: 01 May 2000
... in relation to other media (especially cinema) and to
revalue or reverse its associations with femininity. The strategies
of “quality” television were therefore strangely allied with some
forms of feminism. “Quality” had as one of its goals nothing less...
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Subject to Change: The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster and Other Post-humanist Critiques of the Instrumental
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 63–101.
Published: 01 December 2006
... and the biological, in nonrepresentational,
Subject to Change • 67
noninstrumental terms. It figures the interrelations among cogni-
tion, the nervous system, and social systems as relations of non-
identity or incommensurability, as historically contingent, mutu-
ally...
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Barbara Hammer and Queer|Art: Granting for the Future
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 137–139.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., and colleagues at Queer|Art—Ira Sachs and Travis Chamberlain—we launched the first application cycle for the grant in the summer of 2017. The first four recipients were Fair Brane (Alyssa Johnson, 2017), Miatta Kawinzi (2018), Alli Logout (2019), and Rraine Hanson (2020). The grant applicants and recipients...
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Index to Camera Obscura/16, 17, 18 (volume 6)
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 157–159.
Published: 01 September 1988
....
Cousins, Mark
Forme frustre: Introduction to Fellowdrama (Ray Barrie). No.17; pp. 83•
84.
deCordova,Richard
Film History as Discipline. On Robert C. Allen and Douglas Gomery's
Film History: Theory 'and Practice. No.18; pp. 146-154.
Deming, Robert H.
Kate and Allie: "New" Women...
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The Intimacies of Globalization: Bodies and Borders On-Screen
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 32–73.
Published: 01 September 2006
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ally demonstrating the impact of globalization on the bodies of
the men and women whose invisible labor is the lifeblood of the
global economy. Sexuality here in particular is a terrain of com
modification, power struggle, and exchange. In other words,
desire and affect are conditioned...
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Rescuing the Fragmentary Evidence of Women's Experimental Film
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 153–156.
Published: 01 December 2006
..., and many others often
assemble these loose records into pieces that capture experience
through elaborate formal play. The resulting documents, experi-
mental in form and profoundly evocative, are films that I do not
want to lose.
The reasons that these films are so little known and liter-
ally...
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White Men Aren't
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 112–137.
Published: 01 May 1992
... American culture is in
any way necessarily historically or culturally allied with notions of
gender, which I take to have a longer and generally less specific history.
Nor do I believe that race is a binary opposition. What I am arguing
is that many of our representations that undertake...
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Capote’s Swans: Effeminacy, Friendship, and Style in Douglas McGrath’s Infamous
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2017
....
Yet the various identities represented in this scene — gay
men, straight men, straight women — do not cohere into a simple
equation whereby all gay men and all straight women necessarily
ally themselves against the displeased and bored heterosexual men
who try to ruin the fun. The elderly...
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Creolizing Carmen: Reading Performance in María Antonia , Cuba's Overlooked Carmen Adaptation
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 157–191.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of Havana, particularly with the space of the
solar. The choreography involves a heterosexual couple dance
characterized by the male’s penetrating gesture, called the vacu-
nao, toward his female partner’s genital area, an act that corpore-
ally...
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