... reproductive technology, and her essays have appeared in the journals Genders, English Literary History, Women's Studies , and Literature and Medicine . Jan de Bont directs Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in Twister (1996). A Blustery Day for a Baby: Technologies of Family Formation in Twister...

... animals, knowledge, and expertise. Angela Bassett and Ralph Fiennes in Strange Days (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, US, 1995) Can “We All” Get Along? Social Difference, the Future, and Strange Days Mark Berrettini Several of the disparate character-driven narrative threads in Kathryn Bigelow’s...

..., and sexuality under US slavery. Ralph Fiennes in Strange Days (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, US, 1995) Strange Days and the Subject of Mobility Brian Carr This is not like TV, only better. This is life. It’s a piece of somebody’s life. It’s pure and uncut—straight from the...

.... Courtesy Georgetown University Library Lois Weber, Progressive Cinema, and the Fate of “The Work-a-Day Girl” in Shoes Shelley Stamp A profile of filmmaker Lois Weber published shortly after the release of her 1916 film Shoes (US) celebrated her ability to “set forth in a dignified and...

...Michelle Langford Camera Obscura 2007 Michelle Langford lectures in film studies in the School of English, Media, and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time, and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter (2006). The Day I...

... The Last Days of Women’s Cinema Patricia White Claire Johnston’s “Women’s Cinema as Counter Cinema,” with its injunction that “women’s cinema . . . embody the working through of desire,” has shaped my thinking about this “archive for...

... the Absence of Peace (1988). Filmmaker Amy Serrano IN PRACTICE: activist video Documenting Modern-­Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic: An Interview with Amy Serrano Michael T. Martin Modern-­day slavery is the subject of increasing concern and con...

... and further washed out and disfigured by video reproduction in Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics Lucas Hilderbrand The year is 1970, and suddenly the nation finds itself asking the question, “What if, instead of the...

...Elizabeth Coffman; Erica Stein New Day Films was formed in 1972 as a feminist media collective to distribute films addressing gender issues. Forty years later, New Day boasts close to two hundred members and yearly distribution profits of $1 million. This article uses New Day's history to...

... with Ziba Mir-Hosseini; The Day I Will Never Forget (2002), made in Kenya; and Sisters in Law (2005), codirected with Florence Ayisi in Cameroon. Each focuses on marginalized subjects who also act as the agents of social transformation. Analyzing how the women in these films negotiate the intersection...

...Raz Yosef This article explores the relationship between trauma, gender, and ethnicity in the Israeli film Or, My Treasure (dir. Keren Yedaya, Israel/France, 2004). The film presents a few routine days in the life of Ruthie, a Mizrahi (Jews from Arab countries) prostitute, and her daughter, Or. I...

... contracts to repeat and return to the object of desire. In arguing that the ao dai (long dress) photograph as a copy-image of a lost or disappearing referent is central to a contemporary diasporic erotic — a feeling-state of disrupted history rendered (and recovered) in mythical terms through love and...

... Weimar period. Through the placement of the female minor characters, Berlin Alexanderplatz challenges the traditional terms of value often associated with the historical television miniseries. Contra contemporaneous miniseries like Heimat (WDR/SFB, West Germany, 1984), Roots (ABC, 1977), and Days of Hope...

... early 1980s, the author goes on to explore the reasons for the continuing underrepresentation of women in the ranks of film directing. Moving beyond statistics and hiring practices, the article raises issues of psychological formation that impede women's full participation to this day. B. Ruby Rich is...

... them in film and visual media) and an essay on body transformation in early cinema. An alien spaceship hovers over New York City in Independence Day (dir. Roland Emmerich, US, 1996). Spectacles of History: Race Relations, Melodrama, and the Science Fiction/Disaster Film Despina Kakoudaki...

..., was the 1989 rescue of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd after that series’ cancellation by NBC, which entailed not only the daily retelecast of the original network episodes, but the new production of several additional seasons, and which garnered an enormous amount of pub- licity for...

... Gilmore Girls; the eponymous girls enjoy the Brady Bunch Variety Hour as much as they enjoy Grey Gardens. But it’s hard to imagine them giving the time of day to a reality show about a woman explaining why her self-confidence will be improved by getting buttock implants. The growing number...

... Copyright © 1979 by Camera Obscura 1979 Editorial : Feminism, Fiction and the Avant-Garde In May 1978 three members of the Camera Obscura collective (Janet Bergstrom, Elisabeth Lyon and Constance Penley) gave a two day conference at the London Film Co-op on “Feminism, Fiction and the...

... Ottinger, Cristina Perincioli, Helge Reidemeister, Helke Sander, and Helma Sanders- Brahms. Subtitled copies of their films will be shown around Los Angeles over a six- week period, from the beginning of October. The filmmakers will be giving all-day seminars at: UCLA (Nov. lo), UC-Irvine...

... and her need for privacy and a relationship impossible to satisfy in the space of a 24 hour day. She tries to cut down, to order her priorities. She works with a group of women on a collective project, for which they could receive some money, which involves...