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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 91–113.
Published: 01 May 2022
... as “a vortex of summons and repulsions,” noting that it often reveals a sort of repressed wanting. 8 Rist strategically tools the dialectic of desire and disgust as a feminist strategy, rendering the abject—be it menstrual blood or garish color—tolerable, and even popular. I argue against widely held views...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 65–97.
Published: 01 December 2016
... recent literary collaborations that have taken place online between writers who have never met each other in real life and who have never cooperated before. It argues that these cases of collective creation often rest on a specific dialectic between the promises or expectations of these crowdsourced...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 173–201.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., and, beyond, undoing a certain idea of self — as a notion and as a practice. Indeed, Lovely Andrea proposes a Hegelian‐inspired dialectics of selfhood and medium: suspending, undoing, dissolving these notions in telescopic scenes of framing. Moving across frames to discuss their specific function at various...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 161–187.
Published: 01 December 2015
... that mediation plays in this so-called cinema of immediacy. Furthermore, this missed encounter between the films of the NFE and the critical discourse about them raises a larger set of questions regarding the status of theory in the field of contemporary film studies, particularly in the dialectical relationship...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 155–186.
Published: 01 January 1996
... of possibility" (a phrase
that owes its own familiarity to the currency of Foucault's genealogical
method) and more in terms of elaborating a dialectical argument."
For whereas genealogy works at the level of epistemological forces on
the production of truth statements...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2002
... was expected on earth. Like every generation that pre-
ceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a
power to which the past has a claim” (254; emphasis in original).
We experience a moment of the past in the guise of the “now”
through what Benjamin calls the “dialectical image...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 111–135.
Published: 01 December 2008
... analyses of
appearance, of the concrete, lived experiences of classed and gen-
dered bodies, but this claim might also allow another approach
to these issues. Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic
Theory provide invaluable theoretical models for dealing with the
object in its manifold...
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Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 3–10.
Published: 01 May 1976
... in that text.
This dialectical interaction is the process of signification. The study of film
as a signifying practice (through rigorous analysis of films as texts) contri-
butes to an understanding ofhow ideology determines and is determined
by the mode of representation.
It is important to know where...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 93–115.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... It is something we have
constructed, and if we have constructed it one way, we could also
construct it some other way.5
Female Desire and Patriarchy as Unresolved Dialectic
As if to test how an alternative to the prevailing patriarchal reality
could be constructed, each of the films in Martel’s...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 77–111.
Published: 01 May 2004
... an optical dialectic that will take us beyond the gaze.
Ironically, a close look at Hitchcock’s own commentary on
his films reveals that it was the putative master himself who opened
up the possibility for an alternative visuality. In the François Truf-
faut interviews, for example, Hitchcock...
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 93–104.
Published: 01 September 1977
...
from the director's intervention in the dialectics of the look in the diege-
sis of the film, and between the characters and the spectators, delineate a
new space of investigation for film theory. Both studies deal with what is
perhaps the most inaccessible, 'unattainable' among the numerous oper...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2011
... overall
dialectical schemata:
Hell — golden age
Keywords for hell: ennui, gambling, pauperism
A canon of this dialectic: fashion
. . .
Dialectic of the newest and oldest
Fashion is a canon for this dialectic also (906 – 7)
Thus, in a passage seen as pivotal to defining...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 209–212.
Published: 01 December 1989
...
(and still does today) with debates in the philosophy of science. Here
even the empirical objectivism of the hard sciences was under historical-
critical attack, supporting from an unexpected direction the Frankfurt
debates about Horkheimer and Adorno’s rediscovered Dialectic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2007
... a “dialectic
at a standstill” out of this impossibility, enabling the present to
be understood in a meaningful and “urgent conjunction with
the past.”7 As I shall demonstrate in this article, Meshkini also
uses allegory as a very powerful mode of expression to highlight
the limits of cinematic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 4–40.
Published: 01 September 1993
... limits of
his own nineteenth-century episteme-was that capitalism itself mu-
tates, radically mutates, so much so that in postmodern capitalism, the
dialectic between labor and leisure takes on a different, heightened
significance-at least in the First World. In other words...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 163–191.
Published: 01 May 2000
... invading neighbor-
ing others, which come together through the filmic montage in a
dialectical constellation depicting Iran’s irreducible hybridity.
Modabber, who in an earlier scene could not respond to Hagh-
Negar’s query about the status of the antique...
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 131–136.
Published: 01 September 1977
... Mangolte to 'a re-reading of the Henry ]ames novel.'
Throughout ]ames there is a discourse of vision of which What Maisie
Knew is only its most literal example. Babette Mangolte, working in both
photography and film, could have appreciated all of the nuances which
]ames gives to vision: the dialectic...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2003
.../disclosure
dialectic.
This dialectic in turn helps to explain the film’s generic
affiliations with melodrama, which, as Mary Ann Doane observes,
has a special affinity with narratives of passing because of its asso-
ciation with scenes of recognition and misrecognition. As opposed...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 112–137.
Published: 01 May 1992
...-
lating from my earlier citation of Just Above My Head, I want to
suggest that white masculinity is not the seamless, naturally dominant
social agency many have come to imagine, but a dialectically consti-
tuted identity marked for both gender and race.4 In the two films I...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... with the art deco aesthetic, delivered exoticism that
verged on the fantastic and the impossible, whereas Wong’s pres-
ence (in her Chinese costumes and interlacing her lines with a few
words of the Taishan dialect from south China) supplied an exoti-
cism associated with the authentic and the plausible...
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