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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 23–55.
Published: 01 December 2004
... and anthologies on feminist filmmaking, stardom, and television and film history. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (US, 1987) The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter Mary Desjardins Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 57–91.
Published: 01 December 2004
... by the media and further washed out and disfigured by video reproduction in Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics Lucas Hilderbrand The year is 1970, and suddenly the nation finds itself asking the question, “What if, instead...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 47–51.
Published: 01 May 2006
... ago, feminists were concerned about increas- ing the number of “positive” female characters on television. Now we have had some fantastic bitches such as Kim (Busy Phillips) on Freaks and Geeks and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) on Buffy. When I met Buffy writer Jane Espenson at a conference...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2003
... authority over the definition of his identity that Sedgwick describes as characteristic of gay identity (Epistemology, 79). 33. Gilman, “Male Sexuality,” 117. Thus Mary Wilson Carpenter argues that Victorian discourse on circumcision anticipates Lacan’s efforts to distinguish the penis...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 1988
... Dwelling Mama Norwegian Carpenter San Francisco House The Goldbergs Jewish Tailor/Small Business Bronx/Long Apartment/ Island House Amos ' n Andy Black Cab DriverlHustier Harlem Apartment The Honeymooners Irish Bus Driver/Sewer...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 1–21.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of the home. In Haynes’s cinema, it is always women who try to hold the world and its contradictions at bay with a perfection, a seamlessness, and an embrace of a faultless naïveté (the songs of Karen Carpenter embody this in Superstar in contrast to the mon- tage of Vietnam war footage and references...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 71–103.
Published: 01 May 2006
... (Chief Carpenter S.H.) (Ran away 20th February 1862). Returned 16th August 1863. Sold in Savannah for $1800.00 in September 1863. John Izard. (Carpenter S.H.) Ran away 10th December 1863. Caught two weeks after near Gibsonville and there placed in jail. Dolly (Invalid, 8 years my washer) Ran...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2017
... horror films such asHallow - een (dir.  John Carpenter, US, 1978) or A Nightmare on Elm Street (dir. Wes Craven, US, 1984) that blame misplaced reassurance on neglectful or simply bad parenting, The Babadook suggests that she is the product of a culture that has long valued reassurance...
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 86–109.
Published: 01 December 1986
... if any actual on-screen violence-viz., John Carpenter’s work in The Fog. It may be unremittingly raw, as in the nonstop carnage of George Romero’s films. Or it may modulate between a raw and cool approach, as in the cinema of DePalma. The Weltanschauung which informs Psycho and its cruel...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
... can be read as queer through their deployment of a camp aesthetic and use of Barbie doll figurines in the tradition of Todd Haynes’sSuperstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (US, 1987). Tan Pin Pin’s Lurve Me Now (1999), a three-­minute short that portrays the sexual fantasies of a Barbie doll...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 157–185.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Rimbaud, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (US, 1987), Poison, and Velvet Goldmine, and in the latter group would be Safe and Far from Heaven. Rather than delineating a trajectory, this distinction shows a back-and-forth movement within and between Haynes’s works. The first...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2011
... villains, troubling in their behavior, are also often troubled in their breathing? Evoking seminal slasher characters like Mike Myers from Halloween (dir. John Carpenter, US, 1978) or Jason from Friday the 13th (dir. Sean S. Cunningham, US, 1980), the generic masked murderer of today’s teen horror...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2008
... he is tired — and he is no good with machines, except perhaps at breaking them. (In an early scene in Le fatiche di Ercole, Hercules is unable to repair Princess Iole’s broken chariot wheel — “I’m not much good as a carpenter,” he says; naturally, he solves the problem with brute force, which...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 90–129.
Published: 01 January 1990
... 10)-the most common subject in these New Woman columns relates to women at work in traditionally male jobs such as steamboat en- gineer, deputy marshal, bank president, coroner, coal miner, grist mill operator, bicycle mechanic, itinerant photographer, carpenter, marble cutter, lawyer...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 187–219.
Published: 01 December 2004
...) examinations of women who are, one might say, liter- ally sick of consumption (in the former, Karen Carpenter, who starves herself even as her image is consumed, and, in the latter, Carol White [Julianne Moore], who seems to be allergic to the very space of mass-produced life) through Poison’s (US, 1991...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 42–74.
Published: 01 May 1997
... to establish in advance the reality of that experience. Perception becomes reality. At the Abduction Study Conference held at MIT in 1992, re- searcher-therapist John Carpenter constructed a parallel with incest and sexual abuse, saying “Way back, if you reported...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 131–175.
Published: 01 December 2003
... short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987). 15. On the simultaneous function of gay and lesbian bars as refuges and sites of containment and surveillance in this period, see Kelly Hankin, The Girls in the Back Room: Looking at the Lesbian Bar (Minneapolis: University...