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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 161–163.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Omar Kholeif © 2012 by Camera Obscura 2012 In Practice: The Queer State of Palestinian Media
Me and a Rifle
(and an IDF Soldier on My Back)
Omar Kholeif
It is 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Or is it Friday night? I am in a
state of deep insomnia, as I have been for this whole...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 147–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
...
in practice: women make movies at forty
Looking Back and Forward:
A Conversation about
Women Make Movies
Debra Zimmerman and Patricia White
In the summer of 1984 I interned at Women Make Movies, work-
ing closely with Debra Zimmerman, the organization’s relatively
new director...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2008
... the Diva: Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle
Introduction: The Good, the Bad,
and the Fabulous; or,
The Diva Issue Strikes Back
Alexander Doty
Since putting issue 65 (aka: “Fabulous! Divas, Part 1”) “to bed,” as
they say, there has been quite a bit of diva activity to report. Origi-
nally...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 159–169.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Lovely, and the McDonagh sisters. However, women s participation in the industry diminished significantly after the 1930s. As producer Jan Chapman Looking Back, Moving Forward: Retrospectives at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival Janice Loreck, Sian Mitchell, Whitney Monaghan, and Kirsten Stevens...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 108–132.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Kaja Silverman Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991
Back to the Future
Kuju Silverman
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) represents a curious generic amal-
gam; simultaneously science fiction and film noir, it points both for-
ward and backward in time.l...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 150–176.
Published: 01 May 1992
... UP, 1986 . Bobby Cork from Trenton, NJ, 1943. He used to go on dates with girls
and left a string of broken hearts behind him after his untimely death.
From Freaks: We Who Are Not as Others. Daniel P. Mannix
The Empire Strikes Back:
A Posttranssexual Manifesto
Sandy Stone...
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in Self-Suspension in Frames: Hito Steyerl's Lovely Andrea
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 3. Filming back at the TV crew in the Sex Archive. Lovely Andrea (dir. Hito Steyerl, Japan/Austria/Germany, 2007). Courtesy of the artist
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in Regretting Nothing, or Regretting Everything? Postfeminism, Femininity, and Regret in Miss Austen Regrets
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1. Front to back: Jane Austen (Olivia Williams), Fanny Austen Knight (Imogen Poots), Cassandra Austen (Greta Scacchi). This image exemplifies the assumption that the “Miss Austen” of the title is Jane. ( Miss Austen Regrets , dir. Jeremy Lovering, UK, 2007)
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 145–153.
Published: 01 September 2012
... with the Israeli consulate's marketing campaign “Brand Israel” in the presentation of a city-to-city spotlight on Tel Aviv cinema (known as the Tel Aviv Spotlight); and the 2010 Pride Awards Give-Back, in which twenty-two recipients of various Pride Toronto awards from the past ten years gave back their awards...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 139–159.
Published: 01 May 2020
... we read the emergence of the “horror city” as a representation of the political unconscious of this historical conjuncture. Many films refer back to older mythologies of imperial and racial conquest, but also by doing so represent the symbol of modernity—the city—as travel back to a traumatic past...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
... success, I argue, should be understood as symptomatic of the contemporary fascination with seeing ourselves reflected back to us, a fascination fueled, in part, by technological innovations. The site capitalizes on the public's growing willingness and desire to become participants in the erotic...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2011
... liminal. Through close readings of The Seven Year Itch, Blue Velvet, Three Little Pigs , and The Empire Strikes Back , I track the range of meaning found in cinematic breathing, from the figurative presence of erotic breath in pornography to the literal associations of air and environment in animation...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 149–183.
Published: 01 September 2014
... in the film, which is itself precisely structured as a palindromic procession into and back through a series of mirrored spaces. Faces become more prominent in the film's second half, tasked less to reveal character than to convey graphic, affective, and historical tensions pertinent to the film's spatial...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 49–73.
Published: 01 December 2018
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 127–155.
Published: 01 December 2019
....” These “infamous” (or, more appropriately, un -famous) women story editors become visible as they are being penalized, disciplined, or fired—which is to say, they only appear in the historical record when they are being pushed out or when they push back. As Hechtlinger writes in an angry memo to a supervisor...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 132–141.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of creating a visual archive to offer a look back and a look forward at the practice of Black photography. © 2020 by Camera Obscura 2020 archive Black photography Black visual culture Figure 1. Willis proposed this independent research project in 1973. Scholars working in media studies, film...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of resistance, nor a scene of perpetual adolescence, but a positive queer feminist creative engagement with the possibility of new forms of knowing, relating, and desiring. Attending to the emergence of the cinéfille and cinefillia allows us to articulate a sense of looking back that is not simply tied...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 203–212.
Published: 01 December 2023
... humanitarian organizations are conveniently silent as if this “Peace deal” with the Taliban was ever legitimate. It was never legitimate. Recognizing them gave them the confidence to come back to power. The Taliban have been brutalizing our people throughout the entire process of the talks. Everything that I...
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in Symmetry, Violence, and The Handmaiden 's Queer Colonial Intimacies
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2. As Hideko (Kim Min-hee) helps Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri) lace up her corset in The Handmaiden ( Ah-ga-ssi , dir. Park Chan-wook, South Korea, 2016), the indistinguishable appearance of the backs of their heads alludes to the ambiguity of colonial binaries.
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Published: 01 September 2024
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