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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
... female auteur and to her provocative exploration of youthful sexual identity and fantasy, Koh's condensed-form queer interpretation circulates more productively as part of a burgeoning queer Asian cinema. Unlike New Queer Cinema, which was gradually co-opted by the mainstream as US independent filmmaking...
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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 (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2009
...K K Seet The rarely analyzed Asian horror film, which has had great impact on international film audiences recently as a result of Hollywood remakes, is increasingly mired in the milieu of home and hearth, leading to a new Asian variation of the domestic gothic. With specific reference to Japan's...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
... in their adaptation of Truman Capote’s 1958 novella. The film de-queered the novella, erasing its fantasies of white/black miscegenation and funneling these racial and sexual anxieties onto the specter of Asianness. In place of Capote’s original vision, the film preoccupied itself with defining an aspirational, urban...
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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 (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 (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
.... Such democratization, proponents argue, negates and thus frees us from the embodied particulars of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. This perspective is rooted in and reproduces neoliberal assumptions about bodily transcendence and freedom. Drawing on several Asian American and British Asian blogs, Pham analyzes...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Peter X Feng Asian diasporic identities exist in a complicated tension with Asian nationalist identity formations, simultaneously affirming and disavowing the nation-state as constitutive of identity. Video maker Ming-Yuen S. Ma's work focuses on problematics of translation as a metaphor...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 163–193.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Arnika Fuhrmann This essay investigates Buddhist-Muslim intimacies and coexistence in Thailand in order to complicate recent discussions of the relation of religion to gender and sexual freedoms. It is concerned with contributing a new, Southeast Asian perspective to a prominent strain...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 135–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Thomas Foster This essay analyzes a postcyberpunk science fiction story by Ted Chiang, an Asian American writer. The story speculates on the technological manipulation of visual perception through the direct modification of visual processing structures in the human brain. It focuses...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Ani Maitra In a conversation with the queer South Asian independent filmmaker and video artist Hima B. and through an analysis of her cinema verité work-in-progress And I Do Survive , this interview-article looks at the relationship between televisual discourse and “citizenship” as a form...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
... ensemble, Modern Family relationally racializes Asian American, Latinx, and Black recurring and side characters through performances of cultural capital. Their differences deviate from the sexual modernity represented by the program’s core white families. Despite the token representations of racial...
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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 . [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Camera Obscura 2024...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 151–179.
Published: 01 May 2004
... experience, the scene seems to announce yellow masculinity’s sudden emergence into a field of public visibility: an Asian Ameri- can man literally has the ball here.2 Furthermore, insofar as the basketball serves as a metonym for black male athletic prowess, the scene suggests a subterranean affiliation...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Published by Duke University Press   •  Camera Obscura of the conference, generating a remarkable spectrum of papers on women and film in a wide variety of film cultures. The Asian context emerged as one of the most exciting areas for a num- ber of reasons, not the least of which is the high...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Yiman Wang Camera Obscura 2005 Yiman Wang is currently an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor of East Asian studies and cultural studies at Haverford College. Her works have appeared in Chinese Films in Focus: Twenty-five New Takes (2003), the Quarterly...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 119–129.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Eve Oishi Camera Obscura 2003 Eve Oishi is associate professor of women's studies at California State University, Long Beach. Her research is on Asian American, experimental, and queer film/video and literature. She is working on a book titled The Memory Village: Fakeness and the Family...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 226–230.
Published: 01 December 1989
... provides the theoretical foundation and methodology I use in my current research. For the last several years, I have been working on Asian film and representations of Asians in Hollywood films and tele- vision shows. Within both cultural studies and feminist film scholar...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of the thirties and forties, steered by the Pan-Asian ideology of naisen-ittai (Japan and Korea as one body), simultaneously emphasized a shared ethnic and cultural identity while denying Koreans the assumption of full political rights and exerting strict control over the Korean language and the public...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the film, see William Rothman, The“ Goddess: Reflections on Melodrama East and West,” inMelodrama and Asian Cinema, ed. Wimal Dissanayake (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 59 – 72; and Kristine Harris, “The Goddess: Fallen Woman of Shanghai,” in Chinese Films...