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Invitation to Perform Utopia and Catastrophe: On Okin Collective's Video Works
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 141–151.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-media Age (2016). Currently, he is working on a new book manuscript entitled “Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media, New Platforms, and the Documentary.” © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 Okin Collective contemporary Korean...
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Archaeological Narrative; or, Nostalgic Fascination with the Obsolete in the South Korean TV Drama Reply 1988
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 61–93.
Published: 01 December 2024
... role in generating communal values and informing an inquiry into the human condition in the contemporary moment. In Reply 1988 , the narrative's presumptive utopia colors the retrieved past in an overly fictional, even ahistorical way, as Korean cultural critics and postmodern scholars have claimed...
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Symmetry, Violence, and The Handmaiden 's Queer Colonial Intimacies
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Kouzuki is actually a Korean passing as Japanese, a ch'inil , or collaborationist figure disavowed by postcolonial nationalism, who nevertheless “haunts” contemporary politics. 17 Okju's youthful vulnerability and pale floral hanbok top code her as the colonial cinematic figure of the “ nuui...
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Kyung-Sung: Cinematic Memories of the Colonial Past in Contemporary Korea
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Kyoung-Lae Kang This essay examines two films, Modern Boy (dir. Ji-woo Jeong, South Korea, 2008) and Private Eye (dir. Dae-min Park, South Korea, 2009), both of which depict Seoul in the 1930s—the period during which Korean colonial modernity was fully shaped—and in so doing draw contemporary...
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The Legend of the White-and-Yellow Black Man: Global Containment and Triangulated Racial Desire in Romeo Must Die
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 151–179.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., and Lie and
Abelmann, “The 1992 Los Angeles Riots,” in Koreans in the Hood,
ed. Kwang Chung Kim, 75–87.
23. For an account of the downturn in the Hong Kong movie
industry, see David Bordwell, Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema
and the Art of Entertainment (Cambridge: Harvard University...
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Mothers and Daughters: Abjection and the Monstrous-Feminine in Japan's Dark Water and South Korea's A Tale of Two Sisters
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., starring Sarah Michelle
Gellar); and Honogurai mizu no soko kara (Dark Water, dir. Hideo
Nakata, Japan, 2002), remade as Dark Water (dir. Walter Salles,
2005, featuring Jennifer Connelly); as well as the Korean psycho-
logical horror film A Tale of Two Sisters (dir. Ji-woon Kim, 2003),
the remake...
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Sexual and Intersectional: Region, Family, Disability, and Lived Experience in Lee Chang-dong's Oasis
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 28–65.
Published: 01 May 2025
... when they first meet. 1 It thereby tells a problematic story: a woman falls in love with her assailant. Yet given her physical disability, at the turn of the twenty-first century this story was rarely told in either South Korean cinema or the global art-cinema circuit in which Lee was establishing...
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Trauma, Shame, and Men's Tears in The Manchurian Candidate
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the representation of masculine traumatic symptoms in both Richard Condon's 1959 novel and Frankenheimer's cinematic adaptation of it. In a period of national shame about the unwon Korean conflict, Frankenheimer first feminizes his protagonists by rendering them hysterical, and then allows them to redeem themselves...
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Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
Published: 01 September 2014
... youth dramas “have exerted a powerful influence
on the development of contemporary Chinese youth culture.”9
Indeed, Japanese “fever” and the “Korean Wave” of the 1990s and
the early twenty-first century have affected Chinese youth’s fashion
tastes and outlooks on urban romantic relationships...
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The World and the Soup: Historicizing Media Feminisms in Transnational Contexts
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
Published: 01 December 2009
... Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema (Wayne State University Press, 2005, 2007), and the co-editor of a special issue of Signs on film feminisms (2004). She has published articles on domesticity, feminism, melodrama, the avant-garde, and autobiography in such journals...
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Reality Moms, Real Monsters: Transmediated Continuity, Reality Celebrity, and the Female Grotesque
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 11–39.
Published: 01 May 2015
... continuity. Or rather, the idea of Kate is a good case in point, particularly since the Caucasian Kate, her ex-husband, the Asian-looking Jon (of white, Korean, and Hawaiian lineage), and their eight little China doll kids reveal the degree to which transmediated continuity, in its mediated mixture...
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The Minor Transnationalism of Queer Asian Cinema: Female Authorship and the Short Film Format
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
...
lesbian-themed films directed by men it would be much longer.
Not all of the directors listed are queer, although several are.
43. In an example from public broadcast television, online replays
of Daughters of Club Bilitis, an hour-long Korean Broadcasting
System drama about three...
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Nguyễn Trinh Thi's Landscape Series #1 (2013) and the Limits of Search and Destroy
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 90–117.
Published: 01 May 2025
... Asian “enemies” across tropical sites of US imperialism. As the “word for natives everywhere,” gook gained traction in reference to Southeast Asians after the Korean War. 17 The gook's indigeneity to the jungle and, relatedly, interchangeability between cognates of US empire produced a geopolitical...
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The Wages of Affluence: The High-Rise Housewife in Japanese Sex Films
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2012
... to “American business management . . . a society
administered through highly sophisticated mechanisms for fore-
cast, planning and control.”10 In a broader sense, it referred to
three things: the ties to corporate and international business cul-
ture that boomed during the Korean and Vietnam wars...
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Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2022
... his “exceptional Korean heritage” so that a “comfortable, homogeneous ‘Chinese’ coupling” could be facilitated. 56 In other words, if the desire embodied by the white male gaze is based on exoticism, that is, the desire for the racial other, then the yellow men's desire for Wong's characters...
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Imaging Modern Girls in the Japanese Woman's Film
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 15–55.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the reader to negotiate
back and forth between Japanese and Western faces in a complex
combination of gender juxtaposition, while putting into place
Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese on the Asian continent through a
form of code-switching.”13 While her discussion is less specifically
concerned...
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On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological Production of the Gendered Body
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 206–237.
Published: 01 January 1992
... or American;
rather, they desire a more refined Oriental eye . . . . An upper lid western-
ization blepharoplasty frequently is given to a young Korean woman on
the occasion of her betrothal [210].
Although other surgeons warn that it is “wise to discuss the Oriental
and Occidental eye...
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“They Can't Do This to Us !”: Alan Alda as (Anti)Feminist Signifier
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 35–61.
Published: 01 December 2011
... rather than with women.
Any discussion of Alda’s stardom must include M*A*S*H,
which ran on the CBS network from 1972 to 1983. Alda’s character,
Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, a medical doctor serving in
the Korean War, was the show’s focus during the entire run. Alda
himself wrote...
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The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 1988
... considered increases in con•
sumer spending-increases of 30% to 50% -to be necessary to perpetuate
prosperity in the postwar era Defense spending for the Cold War and
Korean Conflict had complemented an aggressive trade policy to improve
the state of the economy, but it appeared...