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The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong's Yellow Yellowface Performance in the Art Deco Era
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Review of Film and Video, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context , and Film Quarterly . Wong’s dragon lady costume was condemned by Chinese
nationalists and raved about in American publicity
writings.
The Art of Screen Passing:
Anna May Wong’s Yellow
Yellowface...
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“Dated Sexuality”: Anna Biller's Viva and the Retrospective Life of Sexploitation Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 95–135.
Published: 01 December 2011
... to transcend it — as if “time capsules” without a destination. An exemplar of the penchant for “dated sexuality,” filmmaker Anna Biller restages the profilmic universe of the sexploitation oeuvre in her film Viva (2007). Viva 's narrative of two women's entrance into the sexual revolution and its meticulous...
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Unlikely Genres: An Interview with Anna Biller
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 137–145.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Elena Gorfinkel Anna Biller, Los Angeles independent filmmaker, director, writer, producer, and star of the retro-sexploitation film Viva (2007) discusses her creative influences and production practice. Discussing the value of discarded generic modes such as 1960s sexploitation film and the use...
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Although not in the same space, the film frequently shoots Matt and Anna in...
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in Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 3. Although not in the same space, the film frequently shoots Matt and Anna in ways that destabilize that fact. Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021)
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Anna and Matt lie together in the dark as she offers to let him feel the ba...
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in Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 5. Anna and Matt lie together in the dark as she offers to let him feel the baby moving, sharing their strong feelings of friendship for one another. Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021)
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The film closes on a long take of Anna smiling and crying, having just deli...
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in Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 6. The film closes on a long take of Anna smiling and crying, having just delivered the baby, with Matt off-screen. Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021)
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Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
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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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The Story of Anna O.: A Study on Hysteria (Terrel Seltzer)
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 72–79.
Published: 01 September 1980
...Constance Penley © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 The Story of Anna 0.:A Study on Hysteria (Terrel Seltzer, 1979)
The Story of Anna 0.:
A Study on Hysteria
(Terrel Seltzer)
Constance Penley
“At the time of her falling ill [I 8 801, Fraulein Anna 0. was twenty-one
years old...
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“The Hard Shining Brightness of You”: Witnessing the Assumption of a Body in George Cukor's A Woman's Face
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 55–87.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of masculinity. Not only does A Woman's Face anticipate displays that, as in Mildred Pierce , register challenges to normative gender and sexual identities, but it also exceeds them in range and degree. Cukor's tale of Anna Holm (Crawford), whose facial scarring codes her as a marginal figure, spawns an image...
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Everything Is Wiped Away: Queer Temporality in Queers in Love at the End of the World
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 185–192.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Claudia Lo Amid the ongoing popularity of hundred-hour, epic-length stories or never-ending, procedurally generated games, where is the place for short games with defined endings? Anna Anthropy's Queers in Love at the End of the World (2013) rejects the importance of having a lengthy game and flips...
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Yellowness as Transpacific Technology: Cinematic Regimes of Race between Japan and Brazil
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2024
... evoked by Japanese avant-gardist Murayama Tomoyoshi, Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy ( Gion no Kyodai , Japan, 1934), and the framing of Asian American stars Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa in the Brazilian film magazine Cinearte . The illustration that accompanies Murayama's essay “Foreign Cinema...
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Promoting the Image of Gender Equality in Swedish Film as the 2020 Deadline Expires
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 142–153.
Published: 01 December 2020
... held up as a model country and the Film Institute’s CEO Anna Serner has held several widely publicized seminars in Cannes and elsewhere. This article aims to contextualize the Swedish case, as influential curators, jury chairs, and festival directors around the globe have signed the 50/50 by 2020...
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Pantomimes of Ecstasy: BeautifulAgony.com and the Representation of Pleasure
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Anna E. Ward As faces become ubiquitous on the Web through social networking sites and YouTube, it is perhaps no surprise that an adult, subscription-based Web site has emerged seeking to capitalize on investing faces with sexual meaning. This article engages in a close examination of the Web site...
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Arnait Video Productions: Inuit Women's Collective Filmmaking, Coalitional Politics, and a Globalized Arctic
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 153–163.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Scott MacKenzie; Anna Westerståhl Stenport Arnait Video Productions is one of the most aesthetically diverse feminist collectives in the world. Founded in 1991 in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, by Madeline Piujuq Ivalu and Marie-Hélène Cousineau as the first women's Inuit filmmaking collective, Arnait...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Anna Ball One of the many astonishing traits of Palestinian cinema is the way in which it has embraced the complex relationship between gender and nation as a central concern in its filmmaking. This article explores the ways in which gendered and national identity are negotiated and refigured...
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Domestic Violence and the Aetiology of Crime in Americas Most Wanted
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 96–119.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Anna Williams Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 The America’s Most Wanted logo.
Domestic Violence and the Aetiology of Crime
in America’s Most Wanted
Anna Williams
1. Introduction
Every week AmericaS Most Wanted, a novel hybrid of telethon...
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Political Theory and Melodrama Studies
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 178–183.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Anna Siomopoulos Camera Obscura 2006 Anna Siomopoulos teaches cinema studies in the Department of English at Bentley College. She has published articles on US film and culture in Cinema Journal, Film History , and Arizona Quarterly . She is currently completing a book titled “Public...
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“Siam Not So Small!” Maps, History, and Gender in The King and I
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 73–117.
Published: 01 September 2005
... at art schools. Anna (Deborah Kerr) introduces members of the Siamese
court to new ways of seeing, in The King and I (dir. Walter
Lang, US, 1956). Courtesy Photofest
“Siam Not So Small!”
Maps, History, and Gender in
The King and I
Kerr Houston
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical...
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Les Rendez-Vous d'Anna (Chantal Akerman)
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 211–215.
Published: 01 May 1979
... film
fiction, that this woman is the Anna of the title. The woman is seen
entering what one assumes to be a phone booth, presumably telephon-
ing. Person W in space X does Y; let W be Anna, let X be phone booth,
let Y be dialing; will this equation give us the rendez-vous...
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Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 131–162.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Figure 3. Although not in the same space, the film frequently shoots Matt and Anna in ways that destabilize that fact. Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021) ...
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