...Mimi Thi Nguyen A unique aesthetic and artifact for what might loosely be dubbed “Vietnamese America,” the Ao Trang (White Dress) calendar draws from a reservoir of images and feelings of the so-called traditional Vietnamese dress — and specifically, its most iconic form as the uniform of the...

... Sylvester, in a gown and blonde wig, tell- ing flustered music executives, who have demanded that he tone himself down, that he “ain’t changing shit” — fade out. Fade in on Sylvester in a small Atlantic City club, singing “Do Ya Wanna Funk” as a few people dance. After a few calendar pages...

... and unrolls it. As she gains visual access to the image through this act, the viewer turns the page in a similar act of unfurling to reveal the image: a calendar page containing an image of a naked woman (figs. 1a–1b). This visual memory is thus replayed in the graphic narrative in a way that...

... and transform 213 it, tinted blue like the photos). It is compared with the words of poems written on the screen-page and associated with mixed representations with more or less definable shapes (posters, calendars, books, sculp- tures, collages). It is at times even difficult to...

... Women Make Movies, “Filmmaker Resources,” www.wmm.com /resources/for_ lmmakers.shtml (accessed May . LUNAFEST, “How to Submit: Calling All Women Filmmakers . . . Seeking Films by, for, and about Women,” www.lunafest.org/ submit-a- lm (accessed May . See the calendar of...

... (August 5, 1984), Calendar, pp. 5-6. Of the twenty-two new programs, five were on CBS (including Murder She Wrote and Cover Up); eight were on ABC (including Jessie, Paper Dolls and Glitter); and eight were on NBC (including Partners in Crime, Hot Pursuit and Hunter). Mid-season replace...

... this country in both film and television. Rolle is also a part of Riggs’s later production, Color Adjustment (1991). 15. Amei Wallach, “Tough Images to Face,” Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar 7 June 1992: 77. 16. Wallach 77. ...

... their drugstore stand- ins through calendars, posters, and many a college girl’s Halloween costume. However, the contemporary success of Breakfast at Tiffany’s — especially in its widely distributed film version (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) — has been marred by a general unease with...

... Nostos 1, then held by the woman; its pages turned faster and faster (like calendars shedding their leaves in films of the thirties to suggest the passing of time). Inside the book, images half• glimpsed, which appear and disappear like the human figures. The action of leafing through the book...

... typo in your calendar. You can’t seriously plan on a DUBBED version of “Day for Night Especially not as a 25th Anniversary special. I saw a lovely new subtitled print in NYC last summer; surely you can get your hands on that. I had planned to tell my...

...’ and audiences’ love for it. To my mind, the most telling promotional text for a Super- star screening appeared in the calendar listing for a 1998 event at the Blinding Light Cinema in Vancouver, Canada: “Though we swore we’d never show it again . . . due to overwhelming public demand we are...

... in close-up paging through a German calendar from 1945 in which Buchov had written down the addresses of various German women, she suggests that the women who had voluntary liaisons with the “enemy” were perhaps the most autonomous...

... in geog- 82 • Camera Obscura raphy, was also an avid astronomer; at one point, he calculated a new Thai calendar after criticizing the sloppy work of court astrol- ogers.16 But his interest in the skies reached a zenith in August 1868, when the king described the coming of a full solar...