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The Ghost in the Machine: The Biopolitics of Memory in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
...China Medel This article examines the role of image culture in producing collective memory and opportunities for transnational solidarity in Alex Rivera’s science fiction film about the US-Mexico borderlands, Sleep Dealer (US/Mexico, 2008). The article shows that the film offers two contrasting...
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War and Remembrance: Televisual Narrative, National Memory, and China Beach
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 146–165.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Sasha Torres Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 Figure 1.
War and Remembrance:
Televisual Narrative, National Memory,
and China Beach
Sasha Torres
I. Memory: Televisual, Popular, National
In “The Gift the last show of China Beach’s third season on ABC...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2005
... screening in the Tokyo Kinema movie theater.
The actors pictured are Okada Yoshiko, right, and Tanaka
Kinuyo, left. Reprinted from Toyo Cinema Weekly,
9 February 1933.
New Women of the Silent Screen:
China, Japan, Hollywood
Catherine Russell
The movie screen here is not simply...
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Reproducing the Past: Popular History and Family Melodrama on China Beach
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 158–184.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Amanda Howell Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Figure 1. Colleen comforts Hue San (China Beach, "Independence Day"
25 October 1989).
Reproducing the Past: Popular History and
Family Melodrama on China Beach...
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The Theater of Everyday Life: Ulrike Ottinger's China: The Arts, Everyday Life
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 42–51.
Published: 01 September 1988
...Janet Bergstrom Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988
The Theater of Everyday Life: Ulrike Ottinger's
China: The Arrs, Everyday Life
Janet Bergstrom
West Berlin has had a strong documentary filmmaking movement
throughout the history of the New German...
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China' New “Women's Cinema”
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 8–19.
Published: 01 September 1988
...Chris Berry Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 China's New "Women's Cinema"
Chris Berry
"Women's cinema" ~1 '€l-J5 ) is a term that has come into common
critical usage in the People's Republic of China over the last year or
two. Certainly, Chinese...
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Memory Resurrected in HD: Collective Digital Video Filmmaking as Production of Counterhistory in the Folk Memory Project
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 175–185.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jinying Li This article examines the Folk Memory Project, a collective documentary initiative in China that organized young filmmakers to return to their home villages to interview elders and unearth silenced memories of the devastating Chinese Great Famine of 1959–61. Focusing on two films...
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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
... (1966–76) and the socially detached and universal individualism, naturalized sexual difference, and essentialized female consciousness newly mainstreamed around the mid-1980s in China. The article argues that the dismissal of Zhang toward the end of the 1980s reveals both the transformation of Chinese...
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Agnès Varda presents speech with Cate Blanchett at the 12 May 2018 Cannes F...
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in Agnès Varda and Le Collectif 50/50 en 2020: Power and Protest at the Cannes Film Festival
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
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“The Harder I Swim, the Faster I Sink”: Top of the Lake ’s Female Detective in the Global Television Economy
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 71–101.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Alison Wielgus This essay considers the role that Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake (BBC/SundanceTV, 2013) and Top of the Lake: China Girl (BBC/SundanceTV, 2017) play in the post-network television landscape. Situating the series among the globalized genre of serialized post-network crime shows...
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Maquilapolis : An Interview with Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 173–181.
Published: 01 September 2010
... factories along the Mexico-US border began relocating to China, leaving behind thousands of unemployed workers and a chaotic urban milieu devastated by faulty infrastructure and toxic industrial waste. The story is told from the perspective of resilient workers-activists ( promotoras ), dauntless women like...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of codependence among various gendered, sexualized, and racialized groups, between the US and its overseas market, and between China and the US. Victor Fan is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and the World Cinemas Program at McGill University, specializing in Chinese cinema...
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“A More Personal Look at Her Life”: Family Narrative, Gender, and Transnational Memories in The Girl and the Picture
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 91–117.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Pingfan Zhang Abstract Recent decades have witnessed a booming film industry portraying the Nanjing Massacre, both within and outside Mainland China, which is closely related to contemporary Chinese political, socioeconomic, and cultural transformations. This article examines the USC Shoah...
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Chinese “Women's Cinema”: Introduction
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 4–7.
Published: 01 September 1988
...Chris Berry Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 ON CONTEMPORARY CHINA
Army Nurse (Hu Mei, 1986)
Chinese "Women's Cinema": Introduction
Chris Berry
"Women's cinema" was a term I first...
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Knocking Off Nationalism in Hong Kong Cinema: Woman and the Chinese “Thing” in Tsui Hark's Films
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 37–61.
Published: 01 December 2006
...-011 © 2006 by Camera Obscura
Published by Duke University Press
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On Tsui’s Chinese motifs, Teo elaborates, “Tsui shares with all his
new wave colleagues a concern for China. His interpretation of
the China question, whether as an allegory for 1997 or as emo...
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Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
Published: 01 September 2014
... at Willamette University. She holds a PhD from the Department of Communication at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China (Lexington, 2013), as well as articles on media and gender and Chinese television and social change. Her academic interests...
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Interview with Zhang Nuanxin
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 20–25.
Published: 01 September 1988
... Language," was a pioneering work in the evolution of
China's new cinema when it was published in 1979. In 1981, she
directed her first film, The Drive to Win, about the life of a woman
basketball player. After another period teaching in the Academy, she
completed her second film, Sacrificed Youth...
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The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong's Yellow Yellowface Performance in the Art Deco Era
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of forms, including high-profile exhibi-
tions of her films in large US cities; the publication of two biogra-
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Camera Obscura 60, Volume 20, Number 3
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phies;1 a play titled China Doll;2...
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Interview with Hu Mei
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 32–41.
Published: 01 September 1988
... showing a foreign movie." That
was 1976, and foreign movies were just beginning to be shown in
China again. Even though it was very cold and almost one in the
morning, I went down. I saw that the square in front of our building
was packed with people. They were all waiting for the door of the
hall...
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From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of Nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema, 1927-1931
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 193–231.
Published: 01 December 2005
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including the women and the children. Among many of those who do
not understand English, whenever they see a female star in a shadow
play, they always call her “Baolian,” as if the word “Baolian” has become
a common noun. One can imagine her fame in China.1
Copyright © 2005 by Weihong Bao...
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