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Published: 01 September 2024
corner in the upper right. We can also see the finalized versions of the “folder,” “record file,” and “file drawer” in this image. Courtesy of DigiBarn Computer Museum
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., there is a danger of underplaying, reifying, or of just not looking at the spaces of belonging and inhabitance that are also characteristic of an era of transnational migration. As a result, theories of transnational and diasporic cinema run the risk of closing down spaces for considering the complexities...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
... by the greater economic insecurity that middle-class women have been facing post–Great Recession but also by a variety social factors that generate feelings of immobilization and isolation. Abjection is often a principal sign of these characters' precarity—they inhabit spaces where they often recoil from others...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 39–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... claim that, as gestures of reinscription rather than of neutral recording, these works not only expand but also confront, disturb, and ultimately reconstitute the memory of cinema we have inherited. Beyond the opposition between continuity and discontinuity, what I propose to call “digital memory...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the schoolgirl — for the collocation of chronological and nonchronological times with the heterogeneous spaces of diaspora. But the diasporic archive that is this calendar also illumines for us certain media for ensuring a beloved body's continued presence, the photograph and also the calendar being formal...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2018
... into more discrete forms, because such animation creates sites at which formal experimentation and formal redundancy are vividly and co-constitutively apparent. The essay also, playfully, nominates the suite of at-once realist and fantastical effects engendered in animation as the condition of animation’s...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2011
... herself as a benshi. Unlike other traditional performing arts, creating one's original style based on one's interpretation of the film has always been more valued than copying the predecessors' styles. Sawato also discusses the complex ways in which she, a contemporary woman with a clear feminist agenda...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
Published: 01 September 2013
... (US, 1964), which is typically shown silently. These films are queer in that they present a series of erotic encounters that vary in gender, sexuality, and number; significantly, these works are also nonsynchronous or silent in their image-sound relations. They are recombinant in their structure...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 43–75.
Published: 01 September 2009
... documentaries frequently focus on women and children in not only the United Kingdom but also in cultures as diverse as Japan, Iran, and nations in Africa. This essay explores four of her most well-known recent documentaries, Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001), both made in Tehran and codirected...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of disruption that threatens the symbolic realm. By charting the mother-daughter nexus and suggesting that daughters continue to seek the semiotic chora even after the thetic break, these films also address a discernable lack in Kristeva's theory of abjection by paying due attention to the implications...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 161–171.
Published: 01 September 2010
... examines the laboring conditions and practices tantamount to slavery in the sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic (DR). It also addresses the complicity of state governments in human trafficking of Haitian migrants to the DR. The film also illuminates a global trend in which migrants, unable...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 149–183.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and narrative progressions. Second, I perform a lesbian reading of Illusions based on palpable frissons of attraction and mutual fascination linking the two female protagonists and also on the film's deliberately rough aesthetics, situating Dash's film within a tradition Patricia White and others, following...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 93–127.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and brings it closer to the subject, who experiences its closeness as enigmatic or distressing. By bringing things closer, however, it also brings them closer together, compacting them into strange and novel figures. Magnification has its cinematic analogue in the close-up, while compaction can be visually...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 187–213.
Published: 01 May 2021
... up and expand on her lifelong passion for still and moving images, painting, photography, and cinema. The author also shows how Varda has rethought and reworked certain subjects that mattered to her throughout her career, by means proper to this new medium. Varda always had the gift to give us...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
... progressive sympathies and any conservative arc that viewers might discern. It is also beneficial to contemplate the ways in which narrative structures are themselves politically agnostic, as well as to consider the ways in which most family sitcoms attempt to appeal to viewers across the political divide...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 67–107.
Published: 01 May 2009
... on the gendering of these concepts, Osucha argues that they can also be explained by nineteenth-century anxieties about stabilizing the boundaries of racial whiteness. Analyzing the historical legal discourse via the seminal 1890 Harvard Law Review article “The Right to Privacy,” as well as via early case law...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Roya Rastegar Festivals not only select and exhibit films, they also call in audiences and shape the conditions in which these audiences engage with cinema. Drawing from the author's changing personal relationship to cinema culture, and engaging with eleven films that premiered at the 2012 Sundance...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 11–39.
Published: 01 May 2015
... analyzing not only television but also online media and print and digital tabloids and the audience discourses involved with them. It further argues that transmediation incorporates gender and sexuality as well as media. In this, the body also functions as a medium, simultaneously grounded in materiality...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
... incorporation also channel specters of empire? And how do these filmic apparitions render their audience also uncanny? Juliana Chang is an associate professor of English at Santa Clara University. She is the author of Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature (University...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 139–161.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Kelley Conway Chantal Akerman’s films are typically characterized as minimalist and melancholy due to her signature long takes and understated performances. Yet her films also express extraordinary lyricism and euphoria, notably through song. Amid the highly patterned narratives and the exquisitely...
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