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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 35–79.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Anne Anlin Cheng This article tells the stories of architect Adolf Loos and cabaret/film icon Josephine Baker in order to trace the philosophic intimacy between modernist preoccupation with the nude surface and the staging of exposed, racialized skin in the early twentieth century. The racial...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 73–101.
Published: 01 September 2007
... and Performance . Her interview with David Wilson, cofounder of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, appears in Other Voices 3 (2007). She is currently revising her book manuscript, “Moving Performances.” It’s Time from House for Josephine Baker (parody series)
by Darell Wayne Fields, 2003...
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in Yellowness as Transpacific Technology: Cinematic Regimes of Race between Japan and Brazil
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 7. “An Afternoon with Josephine Baker,” Cinearte , June 1, 1939, 12. Courtesy of Fundação Biblioteca Nacional
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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 (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Figure 7. “An Afternoon with Josephine Baker,” Cinearte , June 1, 1939, 12. Courtesy of Fundação Biblioteca Nacional ...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
Published: 01 September 2009
... that could
be enjoyed as colorful (in all senses), sensual, and foreign, but was
clearly marked off from the nobility and beauty that was reserved
for the white subject. Josephine Baker is an example of this figure:
massively popular and lauded for her style and modernity, Baker
was nonetheless...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 116–131.
Published: 01 May 1996
... participates
in that has not, I believe, received the full critical treatment it deserves,
and which this essay intends to further, concerns the importance of
the visual in historical fiction film. In a 1992 interview with Houston
Baker, Dash uses the term speculative fiction to describe how she
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2007
... are also connected by their interest in diva reception. Making
a case for the progressive potential of “Baker’s mobile diasporic
diva iconicity,” Jeanne Scheper considers how Josephine Baker’s
image as both a sexualized black woman and a mother has been
understood and deployed in ways...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 31–61.
Published: 01 September 2023
... ( fig. 3 ). Lockhart's 2005 film Pine Flat similarly features children, this time American, hanging out ( fig. 4 ); George Baker describes how “the camera's fixed and passive gaze registers the non-heroic, non-narrative activities of the children as they perform simple tasks—like reading a book...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 212–214.
Published: 01 December 2003
... 2003 Books Received
Ascheid, Antje. Hitler’s Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi
Cinema. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.
Bailey, David A., and Gilane Tawadros, eds. Veil: Veiling, Representation,
and Contemporary Art. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
Baker...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 165–175.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., and the gaps that neoliberalism has left bare are slowly being
bridged, one frame at a time.
• Camera Obscura
Notes
. Jasbir Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
. George Baker, “Photography’s Expanded Field,” October...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 142–153.
Published: 01 December 2020
... equality in film is broadly reproduced.1 The documentary This Changes Everything (dir. Tom Donahue, US, 2018), produced by Geena Davis, a vocal proponent in the debate, features no fewer than three Swedes among the celebrity cast: Anna Serner, Ellen Telje, and Baker Karim. Since the Swedish Film Institute...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 91–129.
Published: 01 May 1992
... venereal disease, ASHA, working in conjunction
94 with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), secured its
foothold in the government following the joint complaint to Secretary
of War Newton Baker about the swollen ranks of prostitutes accom-
panying General Furston’s army...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 73–105.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Elizabeth Coffman Camera Obscura 2002 Elizabeth Coffman is an associate professor of communication at the University of Tampa. She has published on Josephine Baker and Lillian Gish and is completing a book titled Visual Communication for Allyn and Bacon Press. She is also a filmmaker...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of blackface, black blackface can also foreground
the performative constitution of apparently biological and physi-
ological categories. As Houston A. Baker Jr. argues, there are two
“authentic” African American literary tactics that deal with the
dominant binary standard, that is, “mastery of form...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 76–87.
Published: 01 September 1991
...
can imagine a Jewish or non-Jewish baker or doctor or housewife or
child. The few who saw the vitrines in the west and those who knew
the families of the inhabitants will have specific information, but each
viewer will create his or her own scenario within Boltanski’s structure...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 125–155.
Published: 01 September 2015
... for the network,
inciting protests from the National Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People (NAACP) for its racist content.26 Mean-
while, between 1950 and 1954, NBC hired Joe Baker, who crafted
the “Integration without Identification” policy, with the goal to cre-
ate more roles for African...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 177–189.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., Butterfly
McQueen, Josephine Baker, and many others. I loved the chal-
lenge of imagining a person who’s fictional but who is also kind of
real in a way. That is, she could have lived, though even if she had
we probably wouldn’t have known about her. This work points to
invisibility. It points...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 4–33.
Published: 01 September 1996
..., 1985), 119-120; John Duffy, "Mas-
turbation and Clitoridectomy," Journal ofthe American Medical Asso-
ciation 186: 3 (19 October 1963): 246-249; J. B. Fleming et aI.,
"Clitoridectomy-The Disastrous Downfall of Isaac Baker Brown,
ER.C.S. (1867 Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 1–43.
Published: 01 September 2013
...,’ ” in
Berry et al., Kara Walker, 91 – 101.
33. Primitive is one of the terms that Walker uses to evoke a female
persona and that she sometimes adopts for herself, in a way that
is modeled after Josephine Baker’s exotic sauvage, to underscore
the expectations of her patronage.
34...
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