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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 103–139.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Boaz Hagin The article examines the trope of the crying male in contemporary Israeli fiction films as it appears near the end of the 2004 feature film Walk on Water , written by Gal Uchovsky and directed by Eytan Fox. It suggests, employing various accounts of crying, melodrama, and performative...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 32–48.
Published: 01 September 1995
...Joy James Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Stephen Rea and Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)
Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in
Progressive “White” Cinema: Neil Jordan’s
Mona Lisa and The Crying Game
Joy lames
Neil Jordan’s American...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 24–51.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Amy Zilliax Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995
The Scorpion and the Frog: Agency and
Identity in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game
Amy Zilliax
There's two kinds of people: those who give and
those who take Two...
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in Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 6. The film closes on a long take of Anna smiling and crying, having just delivered the baby, with Matt off-screen. Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021)
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Kenneth Chan By first looking at the gay consumption of melodrama, this essay presents the notion of tears as a political trope to negotiate the reclamation of crying from being a signifier of gendered/sexual “weakness” to one of tactical empowerment, a tactics of tears. Gay political readings...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2017
...
profoundly divided by gender: “Men seemed to feel that the whole-
ness and security of their personalities was threatened by the act of
crying, whereas the women conceived of themselves as more varied
and fractured creatures, for whom crying was a natural expression
of vulnerability and subjectivity...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 33–59.
Published: 01 December 2021
... that many people, communities, institutions, and nation-states are so flagrantly insensitive to the pains that travesti communities face on a daily basis. A corpse, especially a travesti corpse, cannot cry. According to Laura U. Marks, tears “are a material expression of an internal state. The thing about...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 6–11.
Published: 01 September 1995
... contemporary American beauty culture.
In “Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in Progressive ‘White’
Cinema: Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa and The Crying Game,” Joy James
examines the central role violence plays in Jordan’s films. James
argues that, at least on some levels, the liberal politics...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 158–160.
Published: 01 September 1995
...
Beach. No. 35; pp. 159-186.
Jacobs, Lea
The Woman’s Picture and the Poetics of Melodrama. No 31; pp. 121-147.
James, JOY
Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in Progressive “White” Cinema:
Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa and The Crying Game. No. 36; pp. 33-48
Johnson, Eithne...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 115–147.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in the “happy” part of her peregrinations, Lidia had encountered a gap in the consolidated time-space of panoptic urban modernity. In the center of Milan she came across a virtual ruin in whose yard she found a crying child and a broken clock and from whose gate she peeled a piece of rust. This sequence...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 157–188.
Published: 01 May 2024
... flirtatiously returns his gaze. A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2017) In discussing the “transgender gaze,” Jack Halberstam situates several films as notable advancements in cinematic transgender subjectivity, including Boys Don't Cry (dir. Kimberly Pierce, US, 1999) and By Hook...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., as when
Benigno ( Javier Cámara) notices Marco crying during a Bausch
piece in the first scenes of the film, but one that demands a cor-
responding or reciprocating gaze. She is trying to catch his eye, to
be looked at in return, perhaps even to register that she was also
moved by the ballet...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 67–101.
Published: 01 December 2013
... holding her breath. But there
are no tears visible on the actors’ faces. This lack is sometimes
thematized. In episode 7 Reinhold grumbles to a distressed Cilly,
“Always the same old bullshit! Don’t start crying again — please!”
Cilly responds, “But I’m not crying!” Reinhold then attempts...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 52–84.
Published: 01 May 1995
... the mutual interdependency and heterogeneity of these
cultural arenas as well. It is useful in this regard to contrast the
examples listed above with those of the trend of male cross-dressers
popular in recent films: The Crying Game, Farewell My Concubine, 71
M Butterfly, Paris is Burning...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 123–130.
Published: 01 September 2011
... (divorce, custody
battles, substance abuse, bad behavior, etc.) but also Spears’s coun-
ternarrative of control. Spears’s 2007 song was described by Alex
Fletcher of Digital Spy
as “a two fingered-
salute to the media
hounds” and a “cry
of defiance,”10 and
the song skillfully...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 125–133.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the women with the equip-
ment. She begins screaming as she runs and then comes to an
abrupt halt . . . She is out of breath and begins to cry.
“Distortion. Let’s do it again.”
Camera Obscura 82, Volume 28, Number 1
doi 10.1215/02705346-2016978 © 2013 by Camera Obscura
Published...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 93–133.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and Shatila in Beirut, Lebanon. At the end of his
quest for the forgotten last three days of the war, through vari-
ous encounters, especially with former comrades- in- arms, Folman
recalls the traumatic incident, which returns to him as a picture
of Palestinian women walking and crying. He discovers...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 149–159.
Published: 01 September 2022
... these films in midsize to large movie houses in Toronto to sold-out crowds of feminists that span several generations (largely Gen X to Gen Z). Acknowledging that “all our faves are problematic,” the DFF collective are self-described “feminists who would rather laugh than cry their way through representations...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 100–110.
Published: 01 September 1980
..., singularly and for all . . .The
speaker is neither the “Subject” of just one meaning system nor the cry of “no
subject” of the libidinal flow wearing away language but that furtive ubiquity that
reconstructs the One infinitely, indefinately, accepting the multiplicity...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 93–127.
Published: 01 December 2007
... remains visibly mute while the matronly woman rasps
from beyond the frame, “that is my son’s child and that is my son’s
wife.” As papers are unceremoniously stamped and bodies shuffle
outside to embark the waiting ship, a guttural cry pierces the air.
Cut to the source of the sound: an elderly...
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