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... of a game, with traditional academic work, workshops, public game demonstrations, and roundtables discussing race, gender, and sexual identity in video game culture. The community formed around QGCon—which was founded in 2013 at the University of California, Berkeley—informs this section's engagement...

... Nichols. University of California Press. Berkeley, 1985. $14.95. American Dreaming: The Films of John Cassavetes and the American Ex- perience by Raymond Carney. University of California Press. Berkeley, 1985- $27.50. Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges edited with an introduction by Brian...

...? The act of diving is reminiscent of an Esther Williams film-her filmed water performances-or a dance, specifically a Busby Berkeley musical. Berkeley created the “sense” of dance through framing and the movement of the camera around the fragmented bodies of women. After a shot of the stage...

... Copyright © 1982 by Camera Obscura 1982 238 Contributors Jean Andrews is currently living in Portland, Oregon, and working on her dissertation in Comparative Literature for the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley. Jacques Aumont has been an editor...

... and Psychoanalysis, Parallel Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Doherty, Thomas. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immortality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999...

... of California at Berkeley. A friend of mine who was a graduate stu- dent in French invited me to a meeting to discuss the third issue of the journal, which had recently come out. Elisabeth Lyon, the only member of the Camera Obscura collective still at Berkeley, led the group of about a dozen women...

... © 1977 by Camera Obscura 1977 146 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS BertrandAugst teaches film in the French and Comparative Literature de- partments at theUniversity ofCalifornia, Berkeley. His projects in progress include analyses of L 'Age d'Or, The Man with a Movie Camera...

..., Psychoanalysis and Film. Laura U. Marks is a writer and curator living in Rochester, New York. Kaja Silverman is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley, and the author of Male Subjectivity at the Margins (Routledge, 1992), The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice...

... is running Serious Business Company (1609 Jaynes St., Berkeley, Ca 94703), an independent distributor for independent film- makers. She is also working on a film, to be called Redheads on Parade. D Klaus Wyborny has received money to work on a new film, The Scene ofAction, and he isabout to publish...

... 2004 Books Received Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto. Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Desai, Jigna. Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film. New York: Routledge, 2004...

... the title of Dire et interdire. She has recently published a book about men and little girls, Jouer au papa et Li l’amant (Editions Grasset). Mary Jo Lakeland is working in Berkeley on semiological analyses of sound tracks and film music. Meg Morley lives in Paris...

.... The Lost Weekend: Billy Wilder. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Miller, Gabriel. The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. Minden, Michael, and Holger Bachmann, ed. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: Cinematic...

...: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Mazdon, Lucy. Encore Hollywood: Remaking French Cinema. London: British Film Institute, 2000. Nichols, Bill. Introduction to Documentary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001...

... © 1981 by Camera Obscura 1981 Contributors 151 Bertrand Augst teaches film in the French and Comparative Litera- ture departments at the University of California, Berkeley. Rosi Braidotti lives in Paris and recently completed...

... Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985 Jean Andrews is an Instructor in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently writing her dissertation on the novels of Samuel Beckett. Jacques Aumont has been an editor of Cahiers du...

.... In the summer of 1977 the women in The Legend project agreed to have a conversation with Camera Obscura. Both groups had formed in Berkeley in early 1973. All the women were acquainted through film studies with Professor Bertrand Augst (U.C. Berkeley) and a Politics and Film class...

.... New York, 1983. $10.95. A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television by Raymond Fielding. University of California Press. Berkeley, 1984. $10.95. Film Before Gnfith by John L. Fell. University of California Press. Berkeley, 1984. $10.95...

... et cinbma qubbbcois. Edited by Louise Carrikre. Montrial: Borial Express, 1983. Chodorow, Nancy. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Citron, Michelle, et al. “Women and Film...

.... To emphasize the status of these sequences as emblems, choreographer Busby Berkeley sets each image against a pitch-black background, void of detail or depth; even the expressionist cityscape of the street-corner set is missing. The number concludes against a breathtaking backdrop of arched tiers...

... as a sexual fetishist. Indeed, in one of the film’s central fan- tasy sequences, a pastiche of Busby Berkeley’s dance numbers, what seems at first to depend on a fetishistic objectification of women’s bodies modulates into something else. Berkeley made his reputation...