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Company Loves Misery

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Rajani Sudan
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 58–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10-3_30-58
Published: 01 May 1992
...Rajani Sudan Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Company Loves Misery Rajani Sudan Preconceived formations of identity dominate much of Hollywood cinematic production. Rob Reiner’s Misery (1990) is a particularly striking example of this kind of assumption. Reiner...
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Lifetime's Feminine Psychographic Space and the “Mystery Loves Company” Series

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Eithne Johnson
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 42–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11-12-3-1_33-34-42
Published: 01 May 1994
...Eithne Johnson Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 Theresa Saldana in Confessions of Crime. Lifetime’s Feminine Psychographic Space and the “Mystery Loves Company” Series Eitbne Johnson Since its debut in 1984, Lifetime Television has been carving a niche...
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Figure 1. The title of In the Company of Men (dir. William Greaves, US, 1969) appears over the frozen face of Charles Darby. Image courtesy of Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive

The title of In the Company of Men (dir. William Greaves, US, 1969) appea...

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in The Reserve Army of Affectivity: Unemployed Labor in William Greaves's Psychodramatic Cinéma Vérité > Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. The title of In the Company of Men (dir. William Greaves, US, 1969) appears over the frozen face of Charles Darby. Image courtesy of Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive More
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Shampoo: Editing, Advertising, and Codes of Modesty on Saudi Arabian Television

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Noor Al-Qasimi
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 91–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1301548
Published: 01 September 2011
.... I focus on the advertising of three shampoo brands — Pantene, Head and Shoulders, and Pert Plus — each of which manifests a classic use of the notion of “glocalization” in their construction. In Saudi Arabia, global shampoo companies address a market that does not permit the visibility of women...
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LUNAFEST on Campus

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Kelly Hankin
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 159–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727500
Published: 01 December 2012
...Kelly Hankin In 2001, the Clif Bar and Company, makers of LUNA: The Whole Nutrition Bar for Women, debuted LUNAFEST, an international touring film festival that showcases short narrative and documentary work by female filmmakers. Since its inception, this festival has made significant inroads...
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Slapstick Comediennes in Transitional Cinema: Between Body and Medium

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Maggie Hennefeld
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 85–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2704643
Published: 01 September 2014
... that these women's performances played crucial roles in orchestrating transitions in industrial film form. Focusing on a comparison between the French Pathé and American Vitagraph companies, I examine the variety of techniques deployed to try to rationalize or contain the unruly bodily gestures of slapstick...
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Maria Hirszbein: An (In)visible Figure of Polish Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s

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Małgorzata Radkiewicz
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 61–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349357
Published: 01 December 2021
... as the successful manager of her company, Leo-Film, and as cofounder and member of the Polish film producers’ unions, the article explores her professional accomplishments and innovative work style, which was based on teamwork and promoting young, talented actors, creative directors, and screenwriters sensitive...
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The Reserve Army of Affectivity: Unemployed Labor in William Greaves's Psychodramatic Cinéma Vérité

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Alex Pittman
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9561409
Published: 01 May 2022
...Figure 1. The title of In the Company of Men (dir. William Greaves, US, 1969) appears over the frozen face of Charles Darby. Image courtesy of Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive ...
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Calculating Couples: Computing Intimacy and 1980s Romance Software

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Reem Hilu
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 145–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10654941
Published: 01 September 2023
... or erotic experience of a couple using computers together. Although they amounted to a minor subset of the software introduced during the decade, these programs envisioned computing in the home as a technology to mediate companionate relationships. Romance software demonstrates that some software companies...
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Notes on Distribution

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Freude
Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 151–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1-2-3-1_3-4-151
Published: 01 May 1979
... companies handle films for which there is a ready market and immediately recognizable need for the subject matter contained in the film (e.g., How to Give Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation is an all-time best seller on the educational film market). Many people and institutions still do not see the need...
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Camera Obscura Questionnaire on Alternative Film Distribution

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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 157–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1-2-3-1_3-4-157
Published: 01 May 1979
... Copyright © 1979 by Camera Obscura 1979 Camera 0bscura Questionnaire on Alternative Film Distribution Camera Obscura sent a questionnaire to the following companies specializing in films by women. Additionally, several other distribution companies not specializing...
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Reimagining the Gargoyle: Psychoanalytic Notes on Alien

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Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D.
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 86–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-3_15-86
Published: 01 December 1986
... a dull given for its people. The ship is a high-tech rustbucket, an old warhorse of the interstellar “Company’s” merchant fleet, returning not from Ulyssean adventures, but prosaic commercial enterprise. Its crew is also unex- traordinary. Like their well-worn surroundings, they are utterly...
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Agnès Varda, Producer

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Kelley Conway
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 109–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838565
Published: 01 May 2021
... was not only a film director but also the creator of a production company, first called Tamaris Films and then, in 1975, Ciné-Tamaris. At the helm of Ciné-Tamaris, Varda made some specific and surprising moves that resulted in the extension of her viability and visibility as a filmmaker. In this article, after...
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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen : The Actress As Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Film Culture

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Zhang Zhen
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 229–263.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-16-3_48-229
Published: 01 December 2001
... into the silent screen. The film industry was being reconfigured as a result of the The Actress As Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Film Culture • 231 establishment of the Lianhua company (which quickly rivaled the veteran Mingxing company) and the campaign to “revive national cinema” (fuxing...
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Pink Technology: Mediamaking Gear for Girls

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Mary Celeste Kearney
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 1–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-001
Published: 01 September 2010
... by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 1 2  •  Camera Obscura Designer.1 Companies making these “girl games” rationalized their designers’ use of stereotypically feminine aesthetics, such as the color pink, and themes, such as shopping, as the best way to pro- vide girls...
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Mission Accomplished? Profits and Programming at the Network for Women

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Carolyn Bronstein
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 212–241.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11-12-3-1_33-34-212
Published: 01 May 1994
....” “Television for Women” In the fall of 1994, Lifetime introduced a dramatic on-air advertising campaign featuring the slogan “Television for Women” and a series of images of African-American, Asian-American, and white women superimposed on the company’s logo. The network...
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Books Received

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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 166–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4-3_12-166
Published: 01 December 1984
... Desser. MacMillan Publishing Company. New York, 1983. $65 .OO. The MacMillan Film Bibliography (2 volumes) by George Rehrauer. MacMillan Publishing Company. New York, 1983. $120.00. Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera by E. Ann Kaplan. Methuen. New York, 1983...
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Sad Songs of Nitrate: Women's Work in the Silent Film Archive

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Jane M. Gaines
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 171–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-018
Published: 01 December 2007
..., but there are other kinds of wounds that require some attention, even if it means “opening them up,” so to speak. One is a question of the political economy of the woman’s flm company, the other a mat- ter of a great heaving archival emotion: an inconsolable sadness over the decomposition of so many silent-era...
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Swimming Pools, Movie Stars: The Celebrity Body in the Post-War Marketplace

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Catherine Williamson
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 4–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-2_38-4
Published: 01 May 1996
... of putting the unruly body under control. The Nanina swimsuit company gleefullypromotes its "patented 'sani-crotch while others brag about "built-in" bras and "Phan-Tum" girdles. Thanks to the productive collaboration between the fashion and textile industries, form and function...
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The Economics of Film Criticism: A Debate

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Jean-Luc Godard, Pauline Kael
Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 161–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3-4-2-3-1_8-9-10-161
Published: 01 December 1982
... mean about the people at the top having that much influence. If the people at the top of the movie company are not primarily interested in movies, but come either from agencies or law firms or the business community itself, if they are from the Harvard Business School...
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