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Diasporic Erotic: Love, Loss, and the Copy
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
...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...
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Seeing in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., 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 involves the viewer in the act of looking with
Alison. The reader not only turns...
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Sylvester
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 140–143.
Published: 01 September 2007
...-
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 float by, cut to Sylvester as he...
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Calculating Couples: Computing Intimacy and 1980s Romance Software
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 145–171.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., “Computer Love”; Jonathan Cohn, The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019), 129. 41. Brenda Salinas, “In Sync: Is Sharing Your Online Calendar a Relationship Milestone?,” NPR , 19 March 2016, sec. Society, https...
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LUNAFEST on Campus
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2012
... 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 LUNAFEST screenings at www.lunafest...
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“The Letter goes on …”
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 206–215.
Published: 01 September 1990
... representations
with more or less definable shapes (posters, calendars, books, sculp-
tures, collages). It is at times even difficult to distinguish from the
landscape, as is the painting itself. Photography is thus part of the
general universe of signs that have been tinkered with, doctored up...
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Kate and Allie: “New Women” and the Audience's Television Archive
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 154–168.
Published: 01 January 1988
... MacKay, "Do Stronger Women Mean Higher Ratings?" Los Angeles
Times (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...
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Xuxa at the Borders of Global TV: The Institutionalization and Marginalization of Brazil's Blonde Ambition
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 29–59.
Published: 01 May 1996
... promotion in Brazil
reinforces. See Simpson 65-67 and 81-82.
16. Jeb Blount, "Xuxa's Very Big Neighborhood," Los Angeles Times, 19
April 1992: "Calendar" section, 9-10; Millman 300; Simpson 65; Basas,
"Globo Grabs the TV Jackpot in Brazil," 82.
17...
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See Me Now
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 66–83.
Published: 01 September 1995
...
Adjustment (1991).
15. Amei Wallach, “Tough Images to Face,” Los Angeles Times Sunday
Calendar 7 June 1992: 77.
16. Wallach 77. ...
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The Name above the (Sub)Title: Internationalism, Coproduction, and Polyglot European Art Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 1–45.
Published: 01 May 2001
... a 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...
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Memory Once Removed: Indirect Memory and Transitive Autobiography in Chantal Akerman's D'Est
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 35–83.
Published: 01 May 2003
... communities “to commemorate a deliverance
from some danger or persecution.” He also recounts the story of
a fast day (the twentieth day of the Jewish calendar month of
Sivan) commemorating a Jewish tragedy in twelfth-century
France which was adopted to commemorate another entirely...
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Thierry Kuntzel and the Return of Writing
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 28–59.
Published: 01 September 1983
...; is the perpetual
unfolding of a condensation which is continually re-forming. The book is
the image of this: caught in the fiction because it is at the origin of fiction.
First of all on its own in Nostos 1, then held by the woman; its pages
turned faster and faster (like calendars shedding their leaves...
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A Feminist Still: Documentary Form and Untimely Critique in Sheba Chhachhi’s Protest Photography
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and aesthetics of their subjects rather than serving as a document of their everyday life. For a longer discussion of the visual politics of bazaar photography and other vernacular visual practices, see Kairi Jain, Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007...
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The Many Lives of Mr. Yunioshi:: Yellowface and the Queer Buzz of Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
... 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 Mickey
Rooney’s...
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Afterlife and Afterimage: Maya Deren in “Transfigured Time”
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2013
... in “transfigured time” as a
vibrant afterimage in the afterlife we call film history.
Notes
1. Museum of Modern Art, “Exhibitions: Maya Deren’s Legacy,”
www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1109 (accessed 20
February 2012); British Film Institute, “BFI Southbank Presents:
Maya...
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Facing Death, Choosing Life: Pose 's Positive Historiography
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., 1997), 19. 44. Abbott, History of Trans Representation , 131. 45. Dagmawi Woubshet, The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), 3. 46. Eva S. Hayward, “Don't Exist,” TSQ 4, no. 2 (2017): 192–93...
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Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 57–91.
Published: 01 December 2004
... in other descriptions for individual works.26
The drive to show and share the film must be worth the gamble
for venues—a testament to programmers’ 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...
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Allegory and the Aesthetics of Becoming-Woman in Marziyeh Meshkini's The Day I Became a Woman
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of moments marked
by the seconds and minutes on a clock face (mechanical time) —
or indeed the days, weeks, years, or ages marked by calendars
and chronicles — to a different kind of temporality that is more
processural and experiential, and based on the specific durations
of bodies...
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Rape and War, Gender and Nation, Victims and Victimizers: Helke Sander's BeFreier und Befreite
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 99–141.
Published: 01 May 2001
...
While Sander’s hands are shown 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...
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“Siam Not So Small!” Maps, History, and Gender in The King and I
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 73–117.
Published: 01 September 2005
... clear about the cause of his death:
it seems, intriguingly, to have resulted directly from his active
interest in science. The king, in addition to his interest in geog-
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raphy, was also an avid astronomer; at one point, he calculated a
new Thai calendar after criticizing...
