...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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.... 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...

...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 into...

... 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...

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... distribution 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...

..., Arnold 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...

... 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 in...

... superimposed on the company’s logo. The network intended these new visual icons to formalize what viewers and the cable industry had known for a decade: Lifetime saw itself as the “network for women.” The emphasis on female viewership was deemed necessary at the time...

... advertising images in the trade journal The Film Daily (during the years 1948-52) represent the symbolic economy of the American classical cinema. The tape is called l’lmnge du cinimn and is distributed by Serious Business Company, T 145 Mandana Ave., Oakland, CA 94610...

... running Serious Business Company (1609 Jaynes St., Berkeley, Ca 94703), an independent distributor for independent film- makers. She is also working on a film, to be called Redheads on Parade. D Klaus Wyborny has received money to work on a new film, The Scene ofAction, and he isabout to publish (in...

... technology constitutes 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...

... 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...

...  © 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...

... sound 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...

... AIDS. She also has a small company with her ten year old daughter, Jahanara Zzaman. Fatimah Tobing Rony is a doctoral candidate in the History of Art at Yale 291 University. Her dissertation is on the “ethnographic” in early cinema. Aha Solomon is a staff writer at the Village Voice where she...

... Manifesto. No. 29; pp. 151- 176. Sudan, Rajani Company Loves Misery. No. 30; pp. 59-74 Treichler, Paula A. Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, Identity, and Inscriptions of Gender. No. 28; pp. 21-76. Treichler, Paula A. and Lisa Cartwright...

... sanitized, and offered the suit as the instrument best capable 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...