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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 224–249.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Edward Baron Turk Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 I Married an Angel (W. S. Van Dyke, MGM, 1942)
Deriding the Voice of Jeanette MacDonald:
Notes on Psychoanalysis and
The American Film Musical
Edward Baron Turk
I...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 41–72.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Steven Cohan Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 WORKS CITED _____.“All About Eve: Kinsey Reports on American Women.” Newsweek 24 Aug. 1953 : 68 –71. Armstrong , George “Are Actors Sissies?” Photoplay Feb. 1953 : 52 –53, 97. Bentley , Eric...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 27–55.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Heather J. Hicks Camera Obscura 2003 Heather J. Hicks is associate professor of English at Villanova University, where she teaches courses on postmodern fiction, contemporary narratives of race and ethnicity, and feminist theory. She is currently writing a book on how American authors...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 145–149.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Erica Levin Abstract This brief tribute to Carolee Schneemann examines her self-conception as an American artist, considering how it intersects with the disruptive performance of gender norms in Americana I Ching Apple Pie (1972). The work was originally staged for the camera in Schneemann's London...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 113–149.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Vincent Hausmann American Beauty’s insistence that what the
Colonel and film viewers see barely conceals our
identifications, repressions, and aggressions.
Envisioning the (W)hole World
“Behind Things”: Denying
Otherness in American Beauty
Vincent Hausmann
Sam Mendes’s American...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 42–69.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Robert C. Allen Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990
“The Leg Business”: Transgression and
Containment in American Burlesque
Robert C. Allen
Introduction
This fall (1990) marks the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of
Laura Mulvey’s “Visual...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of New Yorker Films.
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In a Desert Somewhere between
Disney and Las Vegas: The Fantasy
of Interracial Harmony and
American Multiculturalism in
Percy Adlon’s...
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in What's Your Color? Mood Conditioning the Postwar Domestic Interior
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1. “What's Your Color?,” American Magazine 146, no. 3 (September 1948). Box 7, Folder 1, Faber Birren Papers, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University
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in What's Your Color? Mood Conditioning the Postwar Domestic Interior
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 13. “What's Your Color?” American Magazine 146, no. 3 (September 1948). Box 7, Folder 1. Faber Birren Papers, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 91–129.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Stacie Colwell Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 The End ofthe Road: Gender, the
Dissemination of Knowledge, and the
American Campaign Against Venereal Disease
during World War I
Stacie Colwell
“Two roads there are in life,” states the prologue to the 1918...
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 11. Yanco as “rich American uncle” in Uncle Yanco (US/France, 1967)
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 129–157.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Sara Ross Camera Obscura 2005 Sara Ross has published articles in the journals Film History and Aura and in the anthology Hollywood Goes Shopping: American Cinema and Consumer Culture (2000). She teaches at the University of Hartford. Striking a defiant pose, Aoki’s Toya-san...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
... the techniques and tropes of Hollywood melodrama, Anglo-American feminist film criticism provides useful critical frameworks for reading the series, even as such readings necessitate a broadening of the terms of aesthetic and political debates around melodrama and African media, as well as complicate Anglo...
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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...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Ashleigh Greene Wade Abstract During the nineteenth and early to mid‐twentieth centuries, the Black press served as a cornerstone of Black social and political life in the United States. For Black Americans, newspapers and magazines functioned as both informational resources and philosophical...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Juliana Chang This essay explicates how Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) and Linda Low (Nancy Kwan), the Asian migrant and Asian American female leading characters in the film Flower Drum Song (dir. Henry Koster, US, 1961), oscillate between embodying the fantasies of American modernity and exposing...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
... as Asian or Asian American. 24 conflates East Asians, Asian Americans, and West Asian ethnic groups together by representing all three as users as well as subjects of digital imaging technologies. Camera Obscura 2009 Lisa Nakamura is a research professor at the Institute of Communication Research...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2015
... sensibilities. This essay argues that BREAKAWAY is an inherently collaborative and cross-disciplinary work that self-reflexively invokes the utopian aspirations of the American underground and popular culture during the mid-1960s, especially through its utilization of rock and roll, a genre rooted in vernacular...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Xin Peng Abstract This article provides a comparative study of Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa—the two most iconic stars of Asian descent of American cinema's silent era—by examining the reception history around their rare collaboration, the early sound film and yellow peril thriller Daughter...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 31–61.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Rebecca A. Sheehan Abstract This article considers the cinematic works of the contemporary American artist Sharon Lockhart in the context of what it identifies as philosophies and practices of “the casual,” from the impact of Emersonian aesthetics on post – World War II American avant‐garde cinema...
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