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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2008
... questions of desire and identification: (1) it displaces same-sex desire into the past (I used to desire Hercules, but now I identify with him); (2) identification is displaced from its proper target (the skinny and helpless adolescent sidekick) to a much more flattering one (Hercules); (3) the peplum...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2010
... & Event . From Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, US, 1982)
Affects of the Gaze: Post-Oedipal
Desire and the Traversal
of Fantasy in Blade Runner
Richard Pope
Despite the vagaries of the film and its reception, within the uni-
versity a consensus interpretation of Blade Runner (dir...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
Published: 01 December 2013
... by Camera Obscura 2013 Figure 1. Johan: Mon été 75
(dir. Philippe Vallois, France, 1976)
Choreographing Homosexual
Desire in Philippe Vallois’s Johan
David A. Gerstner
After seeing Philippe Vallois’s Johan: Mon été 75 (France, 1976) for
the first time, I was surprised to discover how...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 54–89.
Published: 01 December 1980
...D.N. Rodowick © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980
Vision, Desire, and the Fib-Text
D. N,Rodowick
The task confronting this analysis is to try to define more precisely the
relationship between the enunciation of desire and its representations
in the fiction film...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2018
... investigates how Turkish sex films identify and discuss the social oppositions upon which desire is manufactured. It also engages these films’ repercussions, whether in terms of cinematic and social influence or how they affected moral codes regarding female sexuality. Moving from Alan Soble’s Marxist analysis...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 91–113.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Immanuel Kant to Julia Kristeva to Sianne Ngai—have long understood seduction and disgust as intricately bound. The reception of Rist's work shows that the pretty and the gross in fact share many formal characteristics, and that desire and disgust often go hand in hand. [email protected]...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 77–105.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Kata Kyrölä Abstract This article examines the Swedish fantasy‐horror‐romance film Gräns ( Border , dir. Ali Abbasi, 2018) through queer Indigenous thought and the notion of trans aesthetics, exploring how the film may sensitize its viewers to seeing and feeling with gender variance, queer desire...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 151–179.
Published: 01 May 2004
...James Kim Jet Li in Romeo Must Die (dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak, US, 2000)
The Legend of the White-and-Yellow
Black Man: Global Containment
and Triangulated Racial Desire
in Romeo Must Die
James Kim
How may I touch you across this chasm of flown things?
—Li-Young Lee, The Winged Seed...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 130–143.
Published: 01 December 1984
...Lynne Kirby L'Age d'Or (Luis Bunuel, 1930)
Book Reviews
Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of
Surrealist Film
by Linda WiUzams (Urbana: University of Iiiinois Press, 1981)
Lynne Kirby
One of Dada’s major legacies to Surrealism was Duchamp’s concept of the
ready-made...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 66–85.
Published: 01 December 1984
...Dana Polan © 1984 by Camera Obscura 1984
‘ ‘Desire Shifts the DZferance’’ : Figural Poetics and
Figural Politics in the Film Theory of Marie-Claire
Ropars
Dana Polan
Polymorphous and perverse the cinema explodes
the sign...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 89–106.
Published: 01 December 1984
... Bible of Saint-Martial, Limoges, 1 lth century
Desire in Art and Politics: The Theories of
Jean-FranCois Lyotard
Maureen Turim
When one mentions the juncture of semiotics, psychoanalysis and
ideology in French theory, certain names circulate in the American con-
sciousness: Roland...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 179–190.
Published: 01 January 1988
...Ien Ang Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 ."
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Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure: On Janice
Radway's Reading the Romance:
Women~ Patriarchy and Popular Literature
(Chapel Hill and London:
University of North Carolina Press...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 134–147.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Margaret Iversen Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Interim, (Mary Kelly, 1984-89). Installation view.
Shaped by Discourse, Dispersed by Desire:
Masquerade and Mary Kelly’s Interim
Margaret lversen
In Julia Kristeva’s indispensable essay “Women’s...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2000
... and production of film in Germany. 01-Halle iv-39=40pgs 1/25/01 1:43 PM Page iv
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“Happy Ends” to Crises of
Heterosexual Desire: Toward a
Social Psychology of Recent
German Comedies...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 132–160.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Mary T. Conway
Inhabiting the Phallus: Reading Safe Is Desire
Mary T. Conway
Allie: I'm a city girl.
Dionne: You don't camp?
Allie: Unhuh
Dionne: Oh No
Allie: Why, do you...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 15–41.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Molly Anne Rothenberg Original design by Tom Pribyl, from a photo by Thomas DiPiero
The “Newer Angels” and the Living Dead:
The Ethics of Screening Obsessional Desire
Molly Anne Rothenberg .
Apparently, we have no shortage of ways to represent our enchant...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 165–173.
Published: 01 September 2021
... that documents much of her work from 1958 to 1977, the artist articulated her desire for a different kind of body and a different kind of dance. Schneemann viewed dancers as material in a physical universe, and her early work challenged the niceties of dominant Eurocentric techniques such as ballet and modern...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 137–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... as a strategy for the containment of desire, since desire itself is already constituted through imitation. In other words, one cannot fail to become—if only in a partial, incomplete way—what one imitates. Frank's “becoming gay” would appear to drive his violent acting out against men, women, and music...
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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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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the classic romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle (dir. Nora Ephron, US, 1993), this article suggests that in fact romantic comedy may itself be considered a melancholy genre. Insofar as the heterosexual coupling that typically ends romantic comedies forecloses same-sex desire, the foreclosed objects exist...
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