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A Blustery Day for a Baby: Technologies of Family Formation in Twister
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 189–215.
Published: 01 May 2002
... medicine and 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...
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Can “We All” Get Along? Social Difference, the Future, and Strange Days
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 155–189.
Published: 01 September 2002
... the representation of 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...
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Strange Days and the Subject of Mobility
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 191–217.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of racialization, kinship, 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...
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Lois Weber, Progressive Cinema, and the Fate of “The Work-a-Day Girl” in Shoes
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 141–169.
Published: 01 September 2004
...) was made.
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...
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Allegory and the Aesthetics of Becoming-Woman in Marziyeh Meshkini's The Day I Became a Woman
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2007
...). The Day I Became a Woman (dir. Marziyeh Meshkini, Iran, 2000)
Allegory and the Aesthetics
of Becoming-Woman in
Marziyeh Meshkini’s
The Day I Became a Woman
Michelle Langford
Why should I stop, why?
The birds have gone off to find water ways
the horizon is vertical and moving...
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The Last Days of Women's Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 145–151.
Published: 01 December 2006
... C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E
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...
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Documenting Modern-Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic: An Interview with Amy Serrano
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 161–171.
Published: 01 September 2010
... on Nicaragua, In 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...
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Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 57–91.
Published: 01 December 2004
... by the media 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...
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New Day Films, Digital Distribution, and Collective Aesthetics
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 153–163.
Published: 01 May 2016
...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...
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Academic workers at the UC Santa Barbara picket line on day one of the UAW ...
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in Editorial Office Workers’ Statement Regarding the UC System-Wide Strike
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1. Academic workers at the UC Santa Barbara picket line on day one of the UAW 2865 strike. Photo by Kayla Li for The Daily Nexus .
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The Documentaries of Kim Longinotto: Women, Change, and Painful Modernity
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 43–75.
Published: 01 September 2009
... 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...
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Recycled Wounds: Trauma, Gender, and Ethnicity in Keren Yedaya's Or, My Treasure
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 41–71.
Published: 01 December 2009
...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...
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Diasporic Erotic: Love, Loss, and the Copy
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
... 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...
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Berlin Alexanderplatz 's Serial Women
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 67–101.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of the 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...
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The Confidence Game
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 157–165.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the 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...
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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Retrospectives at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 159–169.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Janice Loreck; Sian Mitchell; Whitney Monaghan; Kirsten Stevens The Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) is a four-day event in Melbourne, Australia, that supports and celebrates the work of Australian women filmmakers. Launched in 2017, the festival emerged from our desire as screen academics...
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Cinema, Taliban, and Being a Woman in Today's Afghanistan: An Interview with Sahraa Karimi
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 203–212.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to us. Please help us by informing your countries’ most important media what is going on here in Afghanistan. Be our voices outside of Afghanistan . . . Days after publishing this letter, Sahraa had to flee from Afghanistan as the Taliban took control of Kabul. Within several weeks, I made...
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Published: 01 May 2021
of the film's initial screening at Cannes and its restoration, excerpts from press reviews, and a series of ten still images from the film, the location where they were shot, and the time of day the scene was meant to take place.
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Zhang Nuanxin and Social Commitment in 1980s Chinese Women’s Experimental Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2019
... autocratic culture. But Zhang s novella is by no means a simplified, one-dimensional representation of the Cultural Revolution. While questioning the sent down policy s rationale, the novella also describes, as the title indicates, the hero- ine s time spent with Dai minority people as one of the most...
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Stripping on the Girl Channel: Lifetime, thirtysomething , and Television Form
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 166–191.
Published: 01 May 1994
..., 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 what...
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