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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 8–41.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Mary Carbine Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990
“The Finest Outside the Loop”:
Motion Picture Exhibition in Chicago’s
Black Metropolis, 1905-1928
Mary Carbine
In 1905 the first black-owned movie theater, Motts Pekin Temple,
opened in the section...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 65–93.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Ariane Cruz Reading Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape and the dialogue surrounding it as a most fecund site for the collaborative laboring of black male sexuality, authenticity, and spectatorship, this article reveals the constitutive relationship between authenticity and spectatorship in the production...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 1–35.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Katherine Fusco Using recent work from philosophy, film studies, and economics, this article analyzes two instances of star discourse — Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience — to identify an emerging trend in contemporary cinema. I argue...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 77–107.
Published: 01 September 2013
...). The article looks at these documentaries to explore black female subjectivity, with the trope of adoption acting as an organizing narrative principle. Adoption is treated as a metaphor of sorts, and one that might dislocate the primacy of traditional moralizing about what it means (not) to be a mother...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 117–147.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Carter). The Woman on Pier 13 (dir. Robert Stevenson,
US, 1950)
The Red and the Black:
Gender, Genre, and
the Romance of (Anti)Communism
in The Woman on Pier 13
Robert Miklitsch
The political agents of the Kremlin abroad continue to beat
out the feminist drums in full awareness...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 88–115.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Erin Greer The episode “Nosedive” from the Netflix series Black Mirror (dir. Joe Wright, Netflix, UK, 2016) provides a dystopian version of a popular narrative about digital culture, according to which the ascent of social media marks the “feminization of the Internet,” its transformation from...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 132–141.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jasmine Nichole Cobb In this interview, artist and scholar Deborah Willis describes the work of excavating and organizing the history of Black photography. Willis’s groundbreaking scholarship helped to formally establish an archive of Black visual practice before libraries and cultural institutions...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Ashleigh Greene Wade Abstract During the nineteenth and early to mid‐twentieth centuries, the Black press served as a cornerstone of Black social and political life in the United States. For Black Americans, newspapers and magazines functioned as both informational resources and philosophical...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Sara Saljoughi This article examines the problem of collectivity in Forugh Farrokhzad's The House Is Black ( Khaneh siah ast , Iran, 1962), an experimental film set in a leper colony in northwestern Iran. Focusing on the film's experiments with form, the article explores how the development of new...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 29–55.
Published: 01 May 2018
... manifest as unreadable noise, interventions on the print page that produce a technological feminine. Situated alongside ANT (actor-network theory), media theory, and cyborg feminism, the technological feminine gestures at the limits of these attempts to de–black box media, insisting on an irreducible noise...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Kristen J. Warner This article explores the interstitial spaces between positive and negative representations of black womanhood on reality television. It argues that regardless of the presence of supposedly positive images in media, if audiences choose to see black women as “loud,” the symbolic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 227–265.
Published: 01 December 2001
...-White.sh 226-265=40pg 4/18/01 4:05 PM Page 226
Mercedes de Acosta (1934). Courtesy of the Rosenbach
Museum & Library.
07-White.sh 226-265=40pg 4/18/01 4:05 PM Page 227
Black and White:
Mercedes de Acosta’s...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 27–55.
Published: 01 September 2003
... and filmmakers have depicted transformations in the meaning of public, paid work since World War II. Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis in Unbreakable
(dir. M. Night Shyamalan, US, 2000)
Hoodoo Economics: White Men’s
Work and Black Men’s Magic
in Contemporary American Film
Heather J. Hicks...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 12–31.
Published: 01 September 1995
...Deborah R. Grayson Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 My head. Photo by Charles Moore.
Is it Fake?: Black Women’s Hair as Spectacle
and Spec(tac)ular
Deborah R. Grayson
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 32–48.
Published: 01 September 1995
...Joy James Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Stephen Rea and Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)
Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in
Progressive “White” Cinema: Neil Jordan’s
Mona Lisa and The Crying Game
Joy lames
Neil Jordan’s American...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 151–179.
Published: 01 May 2004
... kung fu movie is Yuen Woo Ping's Tai Chi Master . Jet Li in Romeo Must Die (dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak, US, 2000)
The Legend of the White-and-Yellow
Black Man: Global Containment
and Triangulated Racial Desire
in Romeo Must Die
James Kim
How may I touch you across this chasm of flown...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 173–197.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the mass coalescing of Black people and white‐dominated conservative politics. In response to the aggression of the Trump campaign and its supporters, Idusuyi is seen reading Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric . Despite this personal protest, Idusuyi's affective dissent is amplified via its...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 189–215.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of making babies enough to merit
medicine’s gift of laboratory conception. Jonas has used his ill-
gotten profit to buy a fleet of black minivans that telegraph his
evil as unimaginatively as the red pickup assures us of Bill’s
potency. But he has also spent a bit of money to build an imitation
of Bill...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 1–43.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Alessandra Raengo This essay pursues an understanding of the blackness of black cinema that is unhinged from the body of the maker or the content of the image. It does so by reading blackness through the visual paradigm of the shadow — that is, as a blackness that cannot, other than ideologically...
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