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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 85–117.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Maggie Hennefeld This article rethinks the emergence of narrative film syntax through the comedy genre, focusing on slapstick films that depict female unruliness. I discuss films featuring Mabel Normand, Florence Turner, Marie Dressler, Sarah Duhamel, and other forgotten silent comediennes, arguing...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 184–185.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Introduction: The Place of the Contemporary Female Director. No. 85: pp. 1 – 3 Matt Delmont “Miserable Women on Television”: Irene McCabe, Television News, and Antibusing Politics. No. 87: pp. 33 – 63 Maggie Hennefeld Slapstick Comediennes in Transitional Cinema: Between Body...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 202–223.
Published: 01 September 1991
... for the suffragettes and their critics, the sentimentalists and the humorists, the male clowns and the female comediennes. Undeniably, most film versions of the disorderly woman worked to ensure the pleasures of their predominantly male audience, expressing and exorcising their dread of feminine moral...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Joseline Hernandez and Mimi Faust from Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta, fight over men who simply are not worth the time or effort. In fact, in the season 4 reunion episode of Love and Hip Hop, comedienne host Mo Nique summarizes how the relationships on the series captured audiences interest: You may be asking...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 197–227.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Gaze • 199 try (dir. Edwin S. Porter, 1914) that articulates one view of the actress’s youthful appeal: There are many young comediennes . . . but it is only Mary Pickford . . . who can create through the silent medium . . . just that particular kind of sentiment—ineffably sweet...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 129–157.
Published: 01 December 2005
...’: Controversy and the Flapper Comedienne,” Film History 13 (2001): 409 – 23. 44. “Tsuru Aoki Is Starred in ‘The Courageous Coward,’ ” Moving Picture World, 26 April 1919, 567; “Next Hayakawa Film Shows Him in Play of Moods,” Moving Picture World, 19 April 1919, 417. 45. Advertisement...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 203–225.
Published: 01 January 1988
..., a comedienne whose professional life has coincided with the evolution of television, perhaps a thesis concerning the shifting nature of female stars on television might arise. Although published sources concerning White and the place of women within the performi!1g end...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 15–41.
Published: 01 May 1997
... we are not only shielded from registering the shock of Sam’s brutality, but also positively encouraged to derive pleasure from it. For this reason, 1 think that Whoopi Goldberg’s cinematic career as a slapstick comedienne and her highly visible role as an emcee for Comic Relief...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 47–77.
Published: 01 January 1988
... various "trouble-prone secretaries" and "boy-mad coeds In 1938 Para• mount decided to change her image as slapstick comedienne and feature her in a series of glamour girl roles, including Give Me a Sailor (1938) in which she won not only a legs contest against Betty Grable...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 31–69.
Published: 01 December 2002
... comedienne who had begun in radio and was popular in early television. 101. Charlton Wallace, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 April 1958, Ruth Lyons Collection at WLWT-TV, Cincinnati, OH. 102. Lyons, Remember with Me, 94. 103. Kinescope, videotape #MI 94–6. 104. See David Weinstein, “Women’s...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 9–57.
Published: 01 December 2001
...,” Motography, 10 June 1916, 1345. 50. “Comedienne Advises Screen-Struck Girls: All Is Not Roses and Technologies of Early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body • 53 Honey When Working before Camera,” January 1917, source unknown, Marie Dressler Scrapbook, Billie Rose Theatre...