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...Jodi Brooks The Kids Are All Right (US, 2010) is Lisa Cholodenko's most commercial film to date and has been the most divisive in its reception. Pitched as a film of and for the times, the film has been celebrated for its portrayal of a lesbian family unit and taken to task for its homonormativity...

... of Tom Lutz, Steve Neale, and Linda Williams. Peter Brooks and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith mobilized ideas expressed here about melodrama. As a melodramatic enactment of masculine roles in the late 1950s and early 1960s, The Manchurian Candidate is both a trauma film and a “male weepy.” Joy McEntee...

... was transgender identities and modernism. Figure 1. Romaine Brooks, Una, Lady Troubridge (1924). Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Artist Peter (A Young English Girl) : Visualizing Transgender Masculinities Melanie Taylor “To be myself . . . I need...

... Press 41 42 • Camera Obscura Prix de beauté (dir. Augusto Genina, France), the 1930 production starring Louise Brooks, proves an interesting case study for a fem- inist examination of the much contested debate about the plea- sures of the “culture industry.” As it emerged within the Frankfurt...

... 4/18/01 3:59 PM Page 36 36 • Camera Obscura three documentaries from this new genre: Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (dir. Aerlyn Weissman and Lynne Fernie, 1992); The Boy Mechanic (dir. Kaucyila Brooke, 1996...

... of melodrama. Crime and social crises are the mainstay of network news programming as well, yet these shows too turn to melodrama to handle such "stories." Peter Brooks concludes his study of the melodramatic imagination by noting its persistence in today's dramas of natural disasters and political...

... referred to only as "she". On screen two men and two women- in varying combinations and in a variety ofindoor and outdoor locations- "play out" the valences of their interdependencies in word and gesture, gaze and stillness, in "unhinged fragments of reality" (to use Louise Brooks' phrase...

...) varied lineage of dandy divas including, but not limited to, Rad- clyffe Hall, Una Troubridge, Thelma Wood, Romaine Brooks, Vita Sackville-West, Luisa Casato, Bruce Nugent, Noël Coward, Jean Cocteau, moments of Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, Mercedes D’Acosta, Mick Jagger, David...

... Snitow, “A Gender Diary,” in Hirsch and Keller, Conflicts in Feminism, 9–43. 14. This episode—“Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary,” writ. Martin Cohan, dir. Jay Sandrich, prod. James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, CBS, 6 November...

... about the film sometime after the critical heat died down, Jodi Brooks refreshingly encounters Kids as the third installment in a series of Cholodenko films that are concerned with the spaces between queer and straight, between marriage and not-quite marriage, and between the imagined and the lived. 24...

.... Melodramatic characteristics outlined by Peter Brooks, such as “the forcing of tone [and] the constant reaching toward sublim- ity of expression,” are well suited to the tradition of landscape rep- resentation. Melodrama’s drive to make the world “morally legible” is just as germane to wilderness...

... dynamic that might be called sacrificial melancholia: Richard bears the burden of martyrdom so that Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) and Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) might move on from their own losses. Melodramatic Excess and Lost Musical Origins Peter Brooks makes the compelling claim...

... for telephone com- munication, we might still share the psychical investment that Paranoid Textuality in Sorry, Wrong Number • 75 Georgian’s infomercial exploits in what telephone historian John Brooks calls “our nerve-end to society.”8 Such an investment is not all in the mind...

.... As Peter Brooks writes in a seminal argu- ment: “Melodrama handles its feelings and ideas virtually as plas- tic identities, visual and tactile models held out for all to see and to handle. Emotions are given a full acting-out, a full representa- tion before our eyes. We come to expect and to await...

... for the Belgian National Science Foundation, in 1989 she was hired by Rodney Brooks and Marvin Minsky, two preeminent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, to work with them as a visiting professor at MIT in their AI lab. Her research during this period focused on applying collaborative learning...

...E. Ann Kaplan Camera Obscura 2007 E. Ann Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University, where she also founded and directs the Humanities Institute. She is currently past president of the Society for Cinema...

... Obscura Visible and Invisible Simultaneity Although melodrama is a protean form, most scholars have fol- lowed Peter Brooks’s argument in The Melodramatic Imagination that suggests that melodrama emerges from a secular society where sacred certainties can no longer provide assurance and ready...

... 2014 Volume Index Volume 29 corresponds to issues 85 – 87 Jodi Brooks The Kids Are All Right, the Pursuits of Happiness, and the Spaces Between. No. 85: pp. 111 – 35 Juliana Chang I Dreamed I Was Wanted: Flower Drum Song  and Specters of Modernity. No. 87: pp...

..., another twenty episodes were broadcast, and in 2003 sixteen additional episodes were aired.1 AIDS in the City relies on the melodrama, which Peter Brooks in his influential study of nineteenth-­century European and Ameri- can literature has termed a “mode of excess” characterized by its...

... The Earth Spirit (Der Erdgeist, 1893) and Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora, 1904) and the G. W. Pabst film version of these plays with Louise Brooks in the title role (Germany, 1929). This figure is then revived in Max Ophüls’sLola Montès (France, 1955) and in Jacques Demy’s film Lola (France...