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Horror Cities: Contesting the Ruins of Capitalism in Contemporary Genre Cinema

Benjamin Balthaser
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 139–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8085147
Published: 01 May 2020
...Benjamin Balthaser In both art and politics, the deindustrialized city would seem to have taken on the qualities of the “unrepresentable,” a traumatic experience that can only be recorded by its attendant silence, or of depoliticized representation in genres such as “ruin porn.” Despite or perhaps...
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Mika Rottenberg's Productive Bodies

Hsuan L. Hsu
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 41–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-002
Published: 01 September 2010
.... This essay considers how Rottenberg's stagings of industrial production lines engage with post-Fordist phenomena such as deindustrialization and affective labor. In works such as Time and a Half, Mary's Cherries, Tropical Breeze , and Dough , Rottenberg conveys the incongruity between industrial production...
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The Reserve Army of Affectivity: Unemployed Labor in William Greaves's Psychodramatic Cinéma Vérité

Alex Pittman
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9561409
Published: 01 May 2022
... conflict. Situating psychodrama as both a gendered strategy of racial governance and a model of workplace training tied to the emerging social conditions of the deindustrializing United States, this article focuses on the labor performed by the unemployed black men within the therapeutic division of labor...
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No Way out of the Menaced Society: Loyalty within the Boundedness of Race

Grant Farred
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 6–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-12-2_35-6
Published: 01 May 1995
... structures are being eroded just by the growth in crime and gangs and so on. Gangs are the major compensatory social structure that's been generated in the face of structural unemployment, deindustrialization, etc. I mean the real genius of the city is that it has produced gangs as surrogate families...
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Once in a Lifetime: Constructing “The Working Woman” through Cable Narrowcasting

Jackie Byars, Eileen R. Meehan
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 12–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11-12-3-1_33-34-12
Published: 01 May 1994
... has been brought against Jones despite the news media’s coverage that suggests that Jones acted unwisely at best. Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of Amer- ica (New York: Basic Books, 1992). Throughout the advertising, broadcasting, and cable industries...
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