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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 128–153.
Published: 01 January 1988
... of consumerism
which plays on her fluctuating position and the narcissism it implies. It is
the focus on self-image that invites the consumer to attend to the images
of advertised products, and the woman, whose role is to purchase in order
to enhance her own status as valued item...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 4–8.
Published: 01 January 1988
... Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988
Editorial: Television and the Female Consumer
American broadcasting has systematically attempted to secure female au•
diences through marketing strategies and programming designed to attract
women. The industry...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 41–73.
Published: 01 September 2000
...-
ern consumerism, the restoration of mimesis and relaxation,
according to this reading, becomes a consumer good itself, a com-
modity provided by a market economy. What Baumann, unwill-
ingly or not, demonstrates to us is that twentieth-century capital...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 41–67.
Published: 01 September 2002
...)
Courtesy Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive
Consuming Distractions in
Prix de beauté
Tracy Cox
We annihilate beauty when we link the artistic creation with
practical interests and transform the spectator into a selfishly
interested bystander. The scenic background of the
[photo]play...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2010
... on a more recent slate of girl-oriented consumer electronics: mediamaking gear for girls. Like the “pink software” of the girl games era, much of this “pink technology” relies on design strategies grounded in stereotypes of girls, girlhood, and girls' culture in order to attract female youth to historically...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2013
... focusing on sending a fleet of robots
to explore and colonize other planets and the other focusing on
consumer goods and services. Even the name Genghis (Khan) is
synonymous with the most violent and destructive elements of patri-
archal society. Meanwhile, consumerism historically has been...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 35–75.
Published: 01 December 2023
... revolution) is typically viewed as catalyzing new possibilities for self‐expression, this rhetoric of consumer choice in fact served to naturalize existing social hierarchies and normative modes of vision through standardized color. This article looks to the postwar American domestic interior to dissect...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2008
... popular to have appealed exclusively to a gay audience. Despite their evident camp value today, peplum films appear to have been principally aimed at, and consumed by, straight adolescent males. The peplum largely adopts three strategies, not always consistent among themselves, to address its problematic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., and capitalism organized around the belief in the successful democratization of consumer markets and media. Thanks to liberalization policies and technological innovations in the past twenty years or so, more people than ever before can access the resources and rights associated with these institutions...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and multilayered network of mutual dependency and interactive/interpassive reconfigurations. The article asks in what ways the Twilight films construct or imagine their targeted audience — teenage girls, Twilight moms, and gay men — and how such desires are then consumed, multiplied, and circulated on textual...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
... consumers and to frame the HIV epidemic as an issue to be addressed largely through rational individual choice and integration into commercial markets. The behavior change it promotes and represents relies on securing female reproductive heterosexuality and the family. The melodramatic mode has proven vital...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 69–87.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Melissa Bradshaw “Devouring the Diva” explores the drives that push us to pursue, consume, and destroy the diva, arguing for a reading of the diva as a figure of feminine gendering and as a stand-in for the fetishized mother whom we ambivalently adore, mourn, and hate. Through an analysis...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 71–99.
Published: 01 May 2015
... citizenship advanced by scholars of reality television; if the genre of reality television is linked to consumer technologies of self-improvement, recovery television focuses instead on the more stigmatized—yet equally as necessary—forms of citizenship embodied by addicts. Using an episode of the reality...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 81–101.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the time theorized as reproductive labor, works in the Projected Art series shift attention to the reproductive labor of caring for, curating, collecting, and consuming visual art and film. I argue that Varian's exhibitions as a whole complicate our understanding of process‐oriented work during the postwar...
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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 150–158.
Published: 01 January 1990
...Jeanne Allen Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Palaces of Consumption as Women’s Club:
En-countering Women’s Labor History and
Feminist Film Criticism
]eanne Allen
As leading promoters of consumer culture in the United States...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 181–201.
Published: 01 September 1991
... because, as Jane Gaines notes, “consumer culture thrives on
heterosexuality and its institutions by taking its cues from heterosexual
theories about consumerism fall prey to the same nor-
malizing tendencies. In any event, .analyses of female consumerism join
a substantial body...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 1988
... fragmentation of the family into separate segments of
the consumer market The priority of consumerism in the economy at
large and on television may have seemed organic and unplanned, but
conscious policy decisions by officials from both private and public sectors
shaped the contours of the consumer economy...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 242–261.
Published: 01 May 1994
..., action, or drama; and institutional categories
like manager, writer, producer, and director. Underlying these catego-
ries are broader, more implicit ones: private, public, leisure, work, the
home, consumer, and producer.
Much of the current discussion about...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 190–194.
Published: 01 December 1989
....
Feminist critics must thus attempt to analyze the ways in which social
relations of viewing and consuming, power and ideology continue to
operate and delimit the possibilities of meaning and pleasure available
to the female spectator.
Yet while the strategic need...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 79–131.
Published: 01 September 2001
...
domestic consumerism and futurism, one that illuminates both
94 • Camera Obscura
the complex and contradictory mechanisms underlying compa-
nies’ declared allegiance to women consumers and the nature of
the reciprocal allegiance they solicited. What Women Want in Their
Kitchens of Tomorrow...
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