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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 119–129.
Published: 01 December 2003
... Romance in Asian American Fiction and Film . She is also an independent film/video curator and has curated programs for festivals in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, and Portland. Interview with Patty Chang Eve Oishi In discussing her 1999 show, Fountain, at New York’s...
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 4. Members of the 2018 Cannes jury—Ava DuVernay, Robert Guédiguian, Chang Chen, Cate Blanchett, and Khadja Nin—with Thierry Frémaux, the general delegate of the Cannes festival, who presents the signed 50/50 en 2020 Pledge. Gwilym Mumford, “Cannes Film Festival Unveils Equality Charter More
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 63–101.
Published: 01 December 2006
... networks in recent American fiction. “her” (frontispiece to title page) from Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster. Courtesy of Eastgate Systems Subject to Change: The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster and Other Posthumanist Critiques...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 43–75.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., subjectivity, and the emotions. Divorce Iranian Style (1998). Courtesy Women Make Movies The Documentaries of Kim Longinotto: Women, Change, and Painful Modernity Belinda Smaill Kim Longinotto’s filmic subjects are almost always outsiders or the disenfranchised — principally women...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 169–179.
Published: 01 December 2012
... EXPRMNTL Made the Small Coastal Town of Knokke the Scene for Radical Artistic New Waves and Political Sea Changes Gerda Johanna Cammaer The small Belgian coastal town of Knokke- le- Zoute once set the scene for one of the most impressive gatherings of the interna- tional film avant...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Juliana Chang This essay explicates how Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) and Linda Low (Nancy Kwan), the Asian migrant and Asian American female leading characters in the film Flower Drum Song (dir. Henry Koster, US, 1961), oscillate between embodying the fantasies of American modernity and exposing...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Jean Ma In the 1950s and 1960s, film songs were a ubiquitous feature of Hong Kong cinema, and their performance was the exclusive domain of singing actresses. One of the biggest screen stars and recording artists of this era was Grace Chang. Chang made her debut in Mambo Girl (dir. Evan Yang [Yi...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 133–139.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Elizabeth Losh Tactics for feminist organizing are changing with the rise of new technologies. From the standpoint of expending digital labor, not all of these changes seem to be for the better. This essay looks at the practices of the international collective FemTechNet, a network of hundreds...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Marusya Bociurkiw From 1972 to the early 1990s, Canadian feminist media collectives created dozens of social-issue documentaries and television series, producing an ephemeral archive of a vibrant era of political and social change. This article discusses the loss and/or deterioration...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2020
... “relegate the embodied voice to a service role of rendering audible the coherent thought.” Similarly, for trans-gender individuals undergoing vocal change, media technologies of vocality like the telephone and the answering machine—the subject of this article—do more than render subjects audible. Through...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 31–57.
Published: 01 September 2022
... representation of white women as racial justice activists and the ways white supremacists understand them in their media platforms? What about the media treatment of African American women activists in Selma and Charlottesville? What's changed, and what hasn't, in fifty years? What can this comparative case...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
... consumers and to frame the HIV epidemic as an issue to be addressed largely through rational individual choice and integration into commercial markets. The behavior change it promotes and represents relies on securing female reproductive heterosexuality and the family. The melodramatic mode has proven vital...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 165–175.
Published: 01 December 2016
... audiences with a contemporary vision of queer feminism that embraces a multitude of gender expressions. This approach can be understood in the context of the cultural changes to lesbian and queer communities over the past twenty years, shaped by the growing visibility and inclusion of transgender politics...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., independent white hetero femininity that indexed several entangled biopolitical concerns of the early 1960s: the remnants of the lavender scare, the burgeoning feminist movement, and the changing status of whiteness in postwar America. The essay explores the way in which this white femininity was produced...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 125–155.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Griffith 's comic and gentle South soothed widespread anxiety about a rapidly changing America as it also reimagined a white rural South as a palliative for the white racist South appearing on the news. Because of its incredible success, Andy Griffith provides a sustained example of how race and region...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 127–155.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and render the child inert. The essay seeks to denaturalize the iconic figure of the imperiled child that dominates political discourse today by tracing the emergence of this discourse of pedophilia in relation to changing notions of gender and sexuality and by identifying a counter-paradigm that saw men's...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 137–147.
Published: 01 December 2012
... mission, to examine the “current state of experimental film and media on an international” scale. A number of explicit changes occurred between 1989 and 2010 regarding the material conditions of experimental media — physical, structural, institutional, and economic. The more recent congress examined...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Roya Rastegar Festivals not only select and exhibit films, they also call in audiences and shape the conditions in which these audiences engage with cinema. Drawing from the author's changing personal relationship to cinema culture, and engaging with eleven films that premiered at the 2012 Sundance...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 147–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
... covers the growth of the organization since the 1970s, the close connection between feminist film theory and independent filmmaking in the 1980s, changes in the culture of documentary, gender inequities in film directing and in financing of films about women, the impact of digital culture on educational...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of the changes that have taken place in the field — namely, the rise of queer theory. Indeed, queer theorists may be drawn to film and media, as is evident in a wide range of key works, precisely because film and media are (figurations of) queer theory. One key thinker who understood this early...