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... to Berkeley and eight new women including ourselves were brought onto the staff. At this time Women and Film was very heterogeneous both in terms of the political direction of the magazine and the kinds of articles that appeared there. There was an open and permissive editorial policy: almost...

... reminded of a recent panel discussion in which Laura Mulvey said that her (seminal) “Visual Pleasure” article (1975) had been wrongly criticized for placing too much emphasis on the masculine position of viewing. The article, she said, was actually about female spectatorship since she drew on her...

... © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 Editorial “The Film-Work, 2” by Thierry Kuntzel continues several strains of critical theory which have been addressed in previous issues of Camera Obscura. The article originally appeared in 1975 in a special issue of Communications (Paris...

... a complementary area of inquiry by offering a dossier on the work of Christian Metz, a dossier which includes part of a previously unpublished translation of Metz’s “Metaphor/Meton- ymy, or the Imaginary Referent,” as well as articles that consider the importance of Metz’s work from several perspectives...

...Janet Bergstrom Copyright © 1979 by Camera Obscura 1979 REFERENCES Bertrand , Augst “The Défilement into the Look….” Camera Obscura , 3-1 (fall, 1977 ). Raymond , Bellour (Please see the bibliography which follows this article.) Sandy , Flitterman “Woman, Desire...

... ingly work to define and place sexuality,” and that the family, too, must be seen as the intersection of a “multiplicity of discourses of sexuality.” One of the important conclusions drawn by R. Coward in this article is then: “The importance of the foregoing arguments...

...Amy Shore Camera Obscura 2006 Amy Shore is an assistant professor in the Cinema and Screen Studies Program of SUNY Oswego's English department. Her scholarship focuses on activism and media, and she has several forthcoming articles related to her book project, “Suffrage and the Silver...

...Mary Hennessy This article retraces a genealogy from the contemporary Berlin School back to German feminist film culture of the 1970s. It focuses on two films with female protagonists: Helke Sander’s watershed feminist film of the New German Cinema, Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit—Redupers...

...Feng-Mei Heberer This article explores the possibilities for activist intervention through documentary media at a time when rhetorics of rights and recognition are increasingly appropriated into nationalist state projects, capitalist expansion, and a Northern hemispheric vision of the “good world...

...Lloyd Alimboyao Sy Abstract This article examines how David Robert Mitchell's 2018 neo‐noir film Under the Silver Lake (US) displays the myopia of conspiracy theories, particularly insofar as they ignore gender‐based violence and oppression. The article contends that the film's male characters...

... © 1983 by Camera Obscura 1983 Editorial Several of the articles in this issue address a problem that continues to be central to feminism and film theory-essentialism, or the idea that sexual difference has its roots in the biological and thus that anything produced by women...

...Martha M. Lauzen From the release of The Hurt Locker in October 2008 through the Academy Awards ceremony in March 2010, Kathryn Bigelow and her film garnered substantial press attention. An analysis of articles appearing on Bigelow in major English-language newspapers worldwide during this period...

... canonical a work hardly requires further recognition. Why return to it now? In part, I am motivated by the sheer passage of time be- tween the article’s writing and its current reading, particularly by students whose knowledge of its compositional circumstances is nonexistent. Another...

... universitaire americain du cinema. Pam Cook is a part-time writer and lecturer in Film Studies who has contributed articles on women and cinema to Screen and various British Film Institute publications. At present she is working on a project for producing materials...

... in this respect is the way Althusser’s celebrated article “Ideology and Ideo- logical State Apparatuses” is cited, in a relevant but banal way, as the source and theoretical companion to Lotte in Italia, and then sum- marized at length without ever itself being the object of critical...

... counter-cinema. It is striking, on rereading this series of articles today-the five major essays and/or pamphlets pub- lished year by year since 1973, when Notes on Women’s Cinema came out l-how little the basic argument has changed, both as it outlines the goals and methods of feminist film...

...Jamie Feldman Tom Kalin, Viruses as Nationalism, 1989 Gallo, Montagnier, and the Debate Over HIV: A Narrative Analysis Jamie Feldman Introduction and Theory The title of this article immediately raises two important questions: why look at the Gallo-Montagnier dispute at all...

...Özgür Yaren This article explores trash erotic productions in 1970s Turkish cinema. What was popularly referred to as the “sex influx” ( seks furyası ) was the result of persistent economic and political crises and symptomatic of the ends of certain cultural and economic modes dominant in film...

...China Medel This article examines the role of image culture in producing collective memory and opportunities for transnational solidarity in Alex Rivera’s science fiction film about the US-Mexico borderlands, Sleep Dealer (US/Mexico, 2008). The article shows that the film offers two contrasting...