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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 1. Exhibition view of Photographs get moving (potatoes and shells too) , Logan Center Gallery, Chicago, 2015
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The Oblivious Transfer: Analyzing Blue Velvet
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 76–91.
Published: 01 May 1992
... the role of the academic analyst
This paper was presented at the Brisbane Center for Psychoanalytic Studies conference,“Psychoanal-
ysis, Perversions, and the Cinema” in September, 1991.
78 (she who reads and interprets the text, in this case, the film) and the
psychoanalyst (she who...
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Hammertime!
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 123–127.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Jennifer Lange Abstract This memoir recounts Barbara Hammer's relationship to the Wexner Center for the Arts and its Film/Video Studio residency program, which supported a number of her films between 1994 and 2018. It offers some personal insight into the evolution of Hammer's final work...
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Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 1. Installation view (detail) of Evidentiary Bodies , 2018, from the exhibition Barbara Hammer: In This Body , 1 June–11 August 2019, at the Wexner Center for the Arts
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How Pictures Make Bodies and Bodies Make Pictures: Gender as a Scopic System in Annie Leibovitz’s Photographs of Caitlyn Jenner for Vanity Fair and Pedro Almodóvar’s La piel que habito
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 1–35.
Published: 01 September 2020
... to gender. Staged in Jenner’s domestic space, often before mirrors that reflect the camera alongside its subject, Lei-bovitz’s photos portray Jenner at the center of complex scenarios of mastery over her image. These images demonstrate an awareness of their constructed nature at the same time as they offer...
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“Little girls and the things that they love”: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , Audience, Identity, and the Privilege of Contemporary Fan Culture
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of participatory culture with which the new series is associated. Despite the apparent transgression of men enjoying a television show clearly coded as being for young girls, the article argues that Brony practices reproduce many male-centered aspects of fan media consumption in a manner that recuperates...
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Chantal Akerman in London
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 185–195.
Published: 01 May 2019
...; Ambika P3, who presented a major exhibition, Chantal Akerman: NOW (2015); the conference “After Chantal” organized by the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media at the University of Westminster in 2016; and the upcoming publication dedicated to Akerman by the Moving Image Review and Art...
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Sentimental Activism as Queer-Feminist Documentary Practice; or, How to Make Love in a Room Full of People
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 41–69.
Published: 01 September 2019
... deploys a sentimental lexicon of rights and recognition for transformative ends: to center queer female migrant workers as historical protagonists in struggles for social justice and transformation and as an inspirational source for radical aesthetics. Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019 affect...
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Ethical Whiteness and the Death Drive: White Women as the New War Hero
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that secures its citizenry—are profoundly interlinked public archives in which to read what here is called “ethical whiteness,” its relationship to the death drive, and the gendered currency of both. Using the figure of the little brown girl that sits at the center of Eye in the Sky , the fetish object central...
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The Wages of Affluence: The High-Rise Housewife in Japanese Sex Films
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., especially films that featured the popular trope of the housewife. Both low-budget “pink films” and more lushly produced, experimental roman poruno narrative films by Nikkatsu, Japan's oldest studio, put the housewife at the center of their stories and used the housewife's dwelling in modernist architecture...
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The Organization Woman behind The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2012
... on the visual display of women. In making Peck and his gray flannel suit the weak center of a postwar narrative of personal discontent and adultery, Zanuck and Johnson fundamentally destabilized gender hierarchies. They also created a formidable but equally conflicted counterpart to America's army of gray...
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Kyung-Sung: Cinematic Memories of the Colonial Past in Contemporary Korea
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Boy , the male hero walks out of the Chosun Government-General Building and passes the camera. On-screen, as the hero exits from view, the colonial building gradually looms large behind him—beautifully reconstructed in the center of the city, with its iconic aura fully retrieved. At this moment...
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Continuous Weave: Feminist Experimental Filmmaking Genealogies
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 89–103.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Sarah Keller Abstract In the year before her death in 2019, Barbara Hammer gave footage from four incomplete projects as well as funds she had procured from the Wexner Center for the Arts to four fellow filmmakers to use as they wished. Her footage of a Guatemalan marketplace and women weaving...
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Queer/Palestinian Cinema: A Critical Conversation on Palestinian Queer and Women's Filmmaking
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2012
... organizations, these critiques often fail to consider how queer Palestinians mobilize and understand themselves. This article reports on an October 2011 panel and film screening at Yale University and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. “Queer/Palestinian: Critical...
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 10. Cast and technicians for Snows (1967). James Tenney, Peter Watts, James Carroll (with glasses), Phoebe Neville (center rear), Tyrone Mitchell (standing with arms crossed), Carolee Schneemann, and Shigeko Kubota (facing left). Photographer unknown
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Two photographs of groups of women, mid-/late nineteenth century, Golestan ...
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in Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet
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Published: 01 December 2022
Figure 3. Two photographs of groups of women, mid-/late nineteenth century, Golestan Collection, Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies. ‘Ismat poses at the center of both photographs. Inscription in the left photograph a reads, “Taj al-Dawlah wife of Nasir al-Din Shah, ‘Ismat al
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The Male Sojourner, the Female Director, and Popular European Cinema: The Worlds of Susanne Bier
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 5–31.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the
sense of televisual melodrama and the quotidian. In these films
the male characters are at the center of the web of human relation-
ships. They navigate narratives punctuated by weddings, funerals,
marriage breakdowns, and the tribulations of the nuclear family.
In particular, the films explore...
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They Gon’ Think You Loud Regardless: Ratchetness, Reality Television, and Black Womanhood
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., Bravo, 21 April 2013. 29. Darnell Hunt, Ana-Christina Ramon, and Zachary Price, 2014 Hollywood Diversity Report: Making Sense of the Disconnect, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, February 2014, www.bunchecenter.ucla.edu/wp-c ontent /uploads/2014/02/2014-Hollywood...
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Zhang Nuanxin and Social Commitment in 1980s Chinese Women’s Experimental Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2019
... culture into a depoliticized and male-centered masculine practice and Zhang’s insistence on sociopolitically engaged filmmaking as China moved toward a market economy. Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019 Chinese women’s cinema Chinese feminism Zhang Nuanxin Sacrificed Youth the Cultural...
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Gender and the Art of Benshi : In Dialogue with Midori Sawato
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2011
... studies and gender theory at Hosei, Meijigakuin, Tama Art, and Kyoritsu Women's universities in Tokyo. She also served as visiting curator at the National Film Center, Japan, between 2002 and 2006. Her recent English-language article “Theorizing Comics/Manga Genre as a Productive Forum: Yaoi and Beyond...
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