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“Light Filtering through Those Shutters”: Joyless Street s, Mnemic Symbols, and the Beginnings of Feminist Film Criticism
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 63–95.
Published: 01 December 2019
... cultural symptoms, which women often experienced in isolation. Through their sustained analysis of film melodrama, the Close Up writers demonstrate that the war, beyond its devastating effects on combatants, also impacted the (female) civilian population—resulting in Close Up ’s call for a critical film...
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Conference Report: Conference on Feminist Film Criticism
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 136–143.
Published: 01 May 1981
...Barbara Klinger © 1981 by Camera Obscura 1981 Women Working
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959)
Conference Report
Conference on Feminist Film Criticism
Barbara Klinger
The Lolita Raclin Rodgers Memorial Conference on Feminist Film...
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The Hidden Agenda: Re-Vision: Essays in Feminist Film Criticism
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 235–249.
Published: 01 September 1985
...E. Ann Kaplan Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985 The Hidden Agenda: Re- Vision: Essays in Feminist
Film Criticism
E. Ann Kaplan
Women in Film is fast becoming a publicly recognized sub-field within
Film Studies. The recent spate of books externalizes for the larger academic...
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Historical Critique and History as Criticism
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 1988
...Dudley Andrew Jim Hillier, Cahiers du Cinéma: the 1950s and Cahiers du Cinéma: the 1960s (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985 and 1986) Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Historical Critique and History as Criticism
Dudley Andrew
Jim...
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Palaces of Consumption as Women's Club: En-countering Women's Labor History and Feminist Film Criticism
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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...
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The Economics of Film Criticism: A Debate
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 161–185.
Published: 01 December 1982
...Jean-Luc Godard; Pauline Kael Copyright © 1982 by Camera Obscura 1982
The Economics of Film
Criticism: A Debate
Jean-Luc Godard and Pauline Kael
Jean-Luc Godard: All right, you want me to begin?
Pauline Kael: Please.
J-LG: Do you know how long this is supposed to go...
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“These Spectacles Are Never Forgotten”: Memory and Reception in Colette's Film Criticism
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 119–163.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Galliera and in
Kahn’s secreening room. Courtesy Les Documents
Cinématographiques, Paris
“These Spectacles Are Never
Forgotten”: Memory and
Reception in Colette’s Film
Criticism
Paula Amad
It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures,
but it is the loss...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 195–203.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and activism, the politics of contemporary visual culture, and critical theory. Her research has been published in ArtMargins and Sztuka i dokumentacja ( Art and Documentation ). © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 opacity performance art camouflage resistance art and activism Figure 1. Jemima...
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Feminism and Film: Critical Approaches
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Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 3–10.
Published: 01 May 1976
... © 1976 by Camera Obscura 1976 Feminism and Film: Critical Approaches
I. Context
The journal Camera Obscura has evolved from the recognition of a need
for theoretical study of film in this country from a feminist and socialist
perspective. This kind ofanalysisrecognizes...
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Time Travel, Primal Scene, and the Critical Dystopia
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 66–85.
Published: 01 December 1986
...Constance Penley © 1986 by Camera Obscura 1986 The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
Time Travel, Primal Scene,
and the Critical Dystopia
Constance Penle y
If the sure sign of postmodern success is the ability to inspire spin-offs,
The Terminator was a prodigy. The film...
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Queer/Palestinian Cinema: A Critical Conversation on Palestinian Queer and Women's Filmmaking
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2012
... organizations, these critiques often fail to consider how queer Palestinians mobilize and understand themselves. This article reports on an October 2011 panel and film screening at Yale University and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. “Queer/Palestinian: Critical...
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Is Film Theory Queer Theory? Or, Everything I Know about Queerness I Learned at the Movies
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Theresa L. Geller In this article, I revisit Robin Wood's 1978 article “Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic,” which is as relevant today as it was at the time of its publication. My aim is to pay tribute to Wood's seminal, deeply personal essay and also to reconsider its claims in terms...
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In Practice: Queerness and Games
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to queer gamers, game designers, and games critics and scholars. This introduction frames queer game studies as both a theory and practice, beginning a special In Practice section of Camera Obscura that profiles the Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon), the first conference explicitly dedicated...
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Biometrics and Opacity: A Conversation
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 155–165.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Zach Blas; Jacob Gaboury This conversation between scholar Jacob Gaboury and artist Zach Blas explores the unique challenges posed by contemporary digital media technology to the political projects of queer, feminist, critical race, and disability studies. Asking how we might negotiate the politics...
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Vertigo and the Vertiginous History of Film Theory
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 101–141.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is one of the most acclaimed films of all times, recognized by scores of critics, film theorists, and film historians as a pivotal work in both film history and film theory. By now, Vertigo is so deeply embedded in film theory that it is almost...
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Damsels Who Distress: Gender and the Acousmatic Voice in Video Games
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 63–93.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Liam Mitchell Female figures routinely appear in popular fiction as ostensibly critical correctives to masculinity who can inadvertently retrench problematic divisions between “Woman” and “Man.” In video games, these figures are often aural rather than visual; whether they are off-screen narrators...
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Glimpsing Angie Xtravaganza: The Trans Latinx Imaginary of Paris Is Burning
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 95–119.
Published: 01 December 2024
... terms critical otiosity, a process through which to vitalize with trans Latinx liberatory possibilities the seemingly superfluous, unproductive, irrelevant, and other pilloried and/or overlooked affective comportments found in the filmic outtakes, this article mounts a rereading of Paris Is Burning...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Ned Schantz This essay considers the recurring problem of plot alternatives in Alfred Hitchcock, of powerful shadow scenes that overwhelm the manifest plot and demand a critical account of their own. Confronting such shadow scenes, the viewer takes up a social position in a long chain of failed...
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The Leftovers of Conspiracy: The Deformed Gazes of Under the Silver Lake
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 118–145.
Published: 01 May 2025
... a male‐centric perspective. This narrative shortcoming is part of a broader sense of conspiratorial obliviousness, which this analysis demonstrates by situating Under the Silver Lake within a broader tradition of Hollywood conspiracy films and a robust critical discourse on the nature of conspiracy...
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Violence and the Gaze in Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl ( À ma sœur! )
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of a larger trend in cultural production and critical discourse, part of a shift away from a focus on trauma and victimhood in the depiction of violence against women, and a turn to the contestatory and critical powers of cinematic and other visual representations that aim to disrupt and challenge our...
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