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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 4. Eye Body #24 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera (1963). Photograph by Erró
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 86–100.
Published: 01 September 1983
...Luli McCarroll © 1983 by Camera Obscura 1983 The Body Human: The Sexes (CBS)
Dissecting The Body Human: The Sexes
Luli McCa1ioll
The Body Human: The Sexes is but one episode of a prestigious prime
time CBS series called The Body Human. As its title suggests, it investi•
gates...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 1–43.
Published: 01 May 2000
... the cultural logic of purity and feminist studies of the body in the contemporary literature and cinema of exile. CO 43-1, 1-43 6/6/00 2:47 PM Page 1
Cinematic Exile: Performing
the Foreign Body on Screen
in Roman Polanski’s The Tenant...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 115–149.
Published: 01 December 2001
... on a book that explores choreographic representations of the female body in melodrama and the avant-garde. 04-del Rio.sh 114-149=36pg 4/18/01 4:01 PM Page 114
04-del Rio.sh 114-149=36pg 4/18/01 4:01 PM Page 115
The Body of Voyeurism: Mapping
a Discourse...
View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> of Voyeurism: Mapping a Discourse of the Senses in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 99–117.
Published: 01 December 2003
... at the different ways desire structures narratives and images in various cultural traditions, and the way our very notion of desire may be shaped by these representations.
Marina Abramovic´ ’s Performance:
Stresses on the Body and Psyche
in Installation Art
Maureen Turim
Among the most prolific...
View articletitled, Marina Abramović's Performance: Stresses on the <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> and Psyche in Installation Art
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 206–237.
Published: 01 January 1992
... of the Aesthetic
Face (New York: Thieme-Stratton, 1984) 64 and 65.
On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and
the Technological Production of the Gendered
Body
Anne Balsamo
The Biotechnological Reproduction of Gender
Among the most intriguing new body...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 4–28.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Catherine Williamson Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996
Swimming Pools, Movie Stars:
The Celebrity Body in the Post-War Marketplace
Catherine Williamson
In the minds of many people, Esther Williams...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 92–115.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Elena del Río Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996
The Body as Foundation of the Screen:
Allegories of Technology in
Atom Egoyan's Speaking Parts
Elena del Rio
In an uncannily unsentimental way, the work of Canadian-Armenian
filmmaker Atom...
View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> as Foundation of The Screen: Allegories of Technology in Atom Egoyan's Speaknig Parts
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 104–125.
Published: 01 September 1996
...Kwai-Cheung Lo Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996
Muscles and Subjectivity: A Short History
of the Masculine Body in Hong Kong
Popular Culture
Kwai-Cheung La
About a year ago, watching David Letterman's Late Show on CBS, I
was surprised to find...
View articletitled, Muscles and Subjectivity: A Short History of the Masculine <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> in Hong Kong Popular Culture
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 180–198.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Shohini Chaudhuri Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 I
Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996)
Visit of the Body Snatchers: Alien Invasion
Themes in Vampire Narratives
Shohini Chaudhuri...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
... after a Long Night at Madame Wong’s
(An Homage)” (2010). Courtesy Fiona I. B. Ngô
Blog Ambition: Fashion, Feelings,
and the Political Economy
of the Digital Raced Body
Minh-Ha T. Pham
In 2007, the Pulitzer Prize–winning fashion writer and former
blogger Robin Givhan praised...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 63–93.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., the article examines some constellations of women's bodies and pleasures created in porn and reperformance. These constellations can enable new forms of pleasure and new bodily interrelationships. But they can also reproduce certain forms of privilege, as occurs in the reproduction of the whiteness...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 85–117.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Comediennes
in Transitional Cinema:
Between Body and Medium
Maggie Hennefeld
The slapstick performer’s body in silent cinema manifests at once
a physical indestructibility and an incapacity to adapt to the world
around it: the Keystone Film Company’s Mabel Normand...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 55–87.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the phenomenon of phantom limb pain—becomes especially suggestive for charting how Cukor's film contests established notions of doing gender and the body. By revealing—at precisely those moments when conventional gender expression is presumably reestablished—that the able body's contours extend beyond its...
View articletitled, “The Hard Shining Brightness of You”: Witnessing the Assumption of a <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> in George Cukor's A Woman's Face
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 9–57.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Bodies in Shock: Gender, Genre, and the Cinema of Modernity . Pearl White
Technologies of Early Stardom
and the Extraordinary Body
Jennifer M. Bean
If everyone can agree that “why and how stars came into promi-
nence and what purposes they served for their audiences” is a
question...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 193–231.
Published: 01 December 2005
... and media culture up to 1945. Pearl White portrait. Yingxi zazhi 1, no. 1, 1921
From Pearl White to White Rose
Woo: Tracing the Vernacular
Body of Nüxia in Chinese Silent
Cinema, 1927 – 1931
Weihong Bao
A prominently placed picture of Pearl (shown opposite) White
appeared...
View articletitled, From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> of Nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema, 1927-1931
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 89–111.
Published: 01 May 2008
... bodies. This integration seems to be invested with limiting the potential positions from which spectators can approach the musical performance—most crucially, in preventing identification with singers' bodies. In this way, the integration of Oklahoma! participates in the tradition of the Wagnerian...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 185–197.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to Schneemann's text “Parts of a Body House” (1957–67), a series of paragraphs composed over a decade that describe a network of biomorphic structures and multimedia environments. The essay argues that “Parts of a Body House” is a “nerve codex” by which to read the artist's life and work. The essay is derived...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 165–195.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Jenny Stümer Abstract When anti-lockdown protests erupted in the United States during the 2020 onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many right-wing women crudely appropriated the feminist slogan “my body, my choice” in defiance of liberal fears and in support of Donald Trump. Looking at the widely...
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. Carolee Schneemann, Parts of a Body House: Genitals Playroom (II) / Genital Wall (1966). Watercolor and ink on paper, 26¼ × 26¾ in. Courtesy of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation; P•P•O•W, New York; Galerie Lelong, New York; and Hales Gallery, London. © 2021 Carolee Schneemann
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