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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 223–233.
Published: 01 December 1982
...Mary Ann Doane; Philip Rosen Copyright © 1982 by Camera Obscura 1982
Conference Reports
Cinema Histories, Cinema PvaLtices
Asilomar Conference
Mary Ann Doane and Philip Rosen
What came to be known as the Milwaukee-in-California conference,
entitled “Cinema...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 137–177.
Published: 01 May 2007
... Have One Daughter and
That Is Egyptian Cinema”:
‘Azı¯za Amı¯r amid the
Histories and Geographies
of National Allegory
Kay Dickinson
On Tuesday, 1 November 1927, Egypt’s daily newspaper, al-Ahra¯m,
proclaimed:
Silent acting has finally been born in Egypt. In the Egyptian sky...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to nostalgia and loss. It also reveals a moment of creative discovery and intensity that emerges in the durational aesthetic form for which Akerman's cinema is well known. The cinéfille is a form of becoming realized in cinema. girlhood cinephilia Chantal Akerman cinema history A teenage girl's face...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
... history and production n the United States. © 2008 by Camera Obscura 2008 Catherine Zimmer is an assistant professor of English and film and screen studies at Pace University. Her current research explores how reflexive cinema has focalized around the issue of surveillance.
Histories...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 69–85.
Published: 01 December 2022
... singularity in the landscape of postwar French film writing. Opening out from this historical context, it closes by gesturing toward the modernity of Vedrès's essay in terms of more contemporary archival filmmaking, as well as thinking on the relationship between cinema and history. 9. Gorky originally...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 77–107.
Published: 01 May 2020
... on the role of cinema in promoting women’s history. Furthermore, it raises highly controversial subjects, such as how to analyze the layers of gendered silencing surrounding both women’s traumatic history and women perpetrators of these sexual crimes; the influence of former KR cadres within current Cambodian...
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 242–243.
Published: 01 December 1982
... Clayton
Feminist History and The Song ofthe Shirt, Vol. 3, no. 7; pp. I 11-127.
Doane, Mary Ann and Philip Kosen
Cinema History, Cinema Practices: Asilomar Conference. Vol. 3, no. 8-9-10;
PP- 224-233.
Ganahl, Margaret and K. S...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
Published: 01 December 2009
... that impact. Histories of cinema generally fall within several dominant paradigms: world cinema; Hollywood or industrial cinema; and cinemas in contradistinction to the Hollywood industrial model—national art-film movements and avant-gardes resistant to the industrial paradigm and its influence. Though...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 167–168.
Published: 01 January 1990
...
“American Cinema History Project” to be published by Scribner’s, and is
completing an NEA-supported video research project on women and housing
entitled, “A House of Her Owflaking Shelter.”
Constance Balides is a graduate student in the Modern Studies Program of
the department of English...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Domietta Torlasco Abstract Taking Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 as a point of departure, this essay argues that cinema's stories of species survival at once hide and duplicate the racialization of matter that has marked the history of geology and, more recently, the discourse...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 95–135.
Published: 01 December 2011
... is assistant professor of art history and film studies at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Her writing has appeared in Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, Cineaste, World Picture , and in a number of edited collections. She is editor, with John David Rhodes, of Taking Place: Location...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 129–159.
Published: 01 December 2015
... stardom, enables the study of a new symbolic
produced by transformations in the existing regimes of represen-
tation of female sexuality.
Neepa Majumdar, Rosie Thomas, and Kaushik Bhowmick,
among others, have delineated the history of female film stardom
in popular Hindi cinema from...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 1–19.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Hester Baer; Angelica Fenner Setting the stage for this special issue of Camera Obscura , the introduction makes the case for German cinema as a renewed site for the theorization of women’s film authorship and feminist film production today. German cinema presents an especially generative case...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 216–218.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and
Poetics. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.
Usai, Paolo Cherchi. The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and
the Digital Dark Age. London: British Film Institute, 2001.
Whitfield, Eileen. Pickford: The Woman Who...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 59–81.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., plays, children’s stories complete with her illus-
trations, songs, and even a history of the cinema), Musidora was
someone extremely attentive both to her public persona and her
ability to construct the narrative(s) that surrounded this persona.
The length and breadth of Musidora’s career...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 81–109.
Published: 01 May 2014
...
dramatizes a long history of female film spectatorship through its
figuration of Daingangan as a child caught in the reveries of wish
fulfillment. As the story unfolds, the film becomes a testament to
the ways in which the cinema can change the course of people’s
lives. It is also a vivid example...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Xin Peng Abstract This article provides a comparative study of Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa—the two most iconic stars of Asian descent of American cinema's silent era—by examining the reception history around their rare collaboration, the early sound film and yellow peril thriller Daughter...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 165–168.
Published: 01 December 1989
... of
disciplines, crossing many fields of inquiry precisely at their blind-
spots -literary theory’s avoidance of cinematic theory, cinema theory’s
avoidance of its own history, cinema history’s own historiographic
avoidance of how cinema has been written about, feminist film theory’s...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2021
... reference to the intertwined and imitative relations between the national cinemas of Japan and Korea—relations mediated and elided by a long history of state censorship—Park's film repudiates an essentialist South Korean identity propped up by both nationalist narratives and market liberalization policies...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 101–141.
Published: 01 December 2011
... psychoanalytic read-
Vertigo and History of Film Theory • 103
ings of gender politics that question the status of the “Real” to
deconstructive or nonsubject-based film theories that useVertigo to
posit a crisis in narrative cinema and representation in general...
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