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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 115–147.
Published: 01 December 2002
... and alleged Satanic worship in West Memphis, Arkansas. A Star Is Porn: Corpulence, Comedy, and the Homosocial Cult of Adult Film Star Ron Jeremy Emily Shelton In a 1995 episode of MTV’s Beavis and Butthead, “Career Day,” the eponymous, flatulent, nose-picking adolescent duo take...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 97–129.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Scott Balcerzak Known as the Sons of the Desert, the official Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appreciation society is unique in that its very structures lampoon the rank-and-file maleness promoted by “legitimate” fraternal orders such as the Freemasons. To understand the comedy duo's lasting cultural...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Tania Modleski This article looks at theories of melancholia to analyze “bromantic” comedies of the kind often associated with film producer, director, and writer Judd Apatow. Taking its title from the references to the film An Affair to Remember (dir. Leo McCarey, US, 1957) that run through...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Rebecca Wanzo Issa Rae's web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (2011–13), initially posted on YouTube, and Lena Dunham's Girls (HBO, 2012–) are examples of the precarious-girl comedy in the new millennium. These sitcoms depict women experiencing a prolonged girlhood produced not only...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 131–162.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Julia Leyda; Nicole Seymour Abstract This article outlines a theory of aromantic and asexual film aesthetics exemplified in a reading of the surrogacy comedy Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021). Contextualizing this analysis within the long genre history of the romantic comedy...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 203–225.
Published: 01 January 1988
... Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Da llas The Danny Thomas Show My Friend Irma Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and Serial Drama, 1946-1970 UCLA Film and Television Archive: Dan Einstein and Nina Leibman...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2000
... and production of film in Germany. 01-Halle iv-39=40pgs 1/25/01 1:43 PM Page iv 01-Halle iv-39=40pgs 1/25/01 1:43 PM Page 1 “Happy Ends” to Crises of Heterosexual Desire: Toward a Social Psychology of Recent German Comedies...
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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 (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2018
... production. Although Turkish film producers first adapted European exploitation films (particularly Italian erotic comedies), in time they created a trashy and irregular film practice addressing the specific needs of its assumed audience: young, unemployed, underclass men with rural backgrounds. The article...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 97–125.
Published: 01 December 2019
... is basically the same, as is the lesson that attends it: attachment is always ambivalent. That is part of its satisfaction. End of story. Or, begin again. This article invokes Stanley Cavell’s classic account of the Hollywood comedy of remarriage in order to place Cholodenko’s trilogy within a wider popular...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... domains of war and political machinations. While one film takes on a serious ethical polemic (the innocent lives of civilians caught in the visual crosshairs of drone cameras) and the latter is a romantic comedy following the adventures of a journalist in Afghanistan, both visually capture important...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 202–223.
Published: 01 September 1991
... angrily, and shouts into the telephone, “This isn’t a hotel! This is a madhouse!” This opening sequence from So Long Letty (Warner Brothers, 1929) seems characteristic of the anarchistic tradition within early sound comedy. Reduced to its simplest outline, “anarchistic comedy” explores...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 157–159.
Published: 01 September 1988
... Xiaolian. No.18; pp. 26-31. Interview with Hu MeL No.18; pp. 32-41. Berry, Sarah Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and Serial Drama, 1946• 1970: Museum of Broadcasting (New York). No.16; pp. 205-225. Bukatman, Scott Paralysis in Motion: Jerry Lewis's Life as a Man. No.17; pp. 195-205...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 224–249.
Published: 01 September 1991
... seem determined in significant measure by primal oral affect: commentators generally extol the first phase of the career, the Paramount Lubitsch/Mamoulian-Chevalier sex comedies, in which MacDonald’s operatic tendencies are curbed; and they denigrate the second phase...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 137–141.
Published: 01 December 1989
... between male and female in Italian film history, by mapping the representation of gender roles across the historical film, melodrama and comedy. These genres are the most important ones in Italian cinema, because they tap two do- mestic and hegemonic art forms, opera...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 1988
..., and it retained high ratings for the duration of its prime-time run. I The show's popularity coincided with that of other situation comedies based on ethnic working-class family life-The Goldbergs, depicting the experiences of Jews in the Bronx; Amos 'n Andy, blacks in Harlem; The Honeymooners and Hey...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 45–93.
Published: 01 May 2000
... of situation comedies; between them their shows completely dominated prime-time television sched- ules throughout the decade of the 1970s. MTM produced The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–77), Rhoda (1974–78), Phyllis (1975–77), The Betty White Show (1977–78...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 170–176.
Published: 01 September 2006
... feminization of popular media” and the “accumulation of ambivalent, fearful responses” to feminism that is such a prominent characteristic of the early 2000s.1 The romantic comedy that flourished since the Camera Obscura 62, Volume 21, Number 2 doi 10.1215/02705346-2006-006  © 2006 by Camera...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 9–46.
Published: 01 January 1988
... family situation comedies which took the middle-class domestic interior as their principal setting." In examining these discourses in connection with one another, I want to establish the ways in which representations disseminated by different media institutions converge...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 129–155.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and Childbirth 17, no. 2 (2017): 7–20. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Camera Obscura 2024 queer family-making male pregnancy zany Sedgwick Schwarzenegger A pivotal point from the 1994 comedy Junior (dir. Ivan Reitman, US) occurs when the pregnancy of Dr. Alex Hesse...
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