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Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Nazli Akhtari Abstract This article reveals how engagements with the photographic archives of premodern Iran and the Persian carpet break open transtemporal, affective, and queer interplays in diaspora. Examining a digital remix of a photograph of a Qajar princess, ‘Ismat al-Dowlah, from...
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Tongue Twisters: The Travelogue Videos of Ming-Yuen S. Ma
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2012
... for homosexuality in the Chinese diaspora. The four videos ( Myth(s) of Creation, Mother/Land, Movements East-West , and [os] ) that make up Xin Lu: A Travelogue in Four Parts combine memoir with a meditation on the discursive construction of travel narratives. Building on Ma's earlier work ( Toc Storee and Slanted...
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Finding Home in Bend It Like Beckham and Last Resor t
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and pleasures of the work of inhabitance. They may also overlook the investment in the reproduction of a more complex sense of “homeplace,” to use bell hooks's term, that migration, diaspora, and transnational experiences might also involve. So, where Naficy speaks of the suitcase as a potent symbol of “exilic...
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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
... of the schoolgirl — for the collocation of chronological and nonchronological times with the heterogeneous spaces of diaspora. But the diasporic archive that is this calendar also illumines for us certain media for ensuring a beloved body's continued presence, the photograph and also the calendar being formal...
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Queering Palestine: Piercing Eytan Fox's Imagined Bubble with Sharif Waked's Chic Point
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 155–160.
Published: 01 September 2012
... the life of a stranger. The forced and unpredictable movement of individuals from the now depopulated Palestinian towns, villages, and holy sites into refugee camps and diasporas evidences the queering of modern Palestinian identity in this sense. The emotion or impression that one is a perpetual stranger...
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Memory and Melodrama: The Transnational Politics of Deepa Mehta's Earth
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2005
... demonstrated the extent to which this violence had not been
left behind in the past.
Appropriately for a film conceived at a moment when so
many people in India, Pakistan, and the South Asian diaspora
were looking back to 1947 and remembering the events, experi-
ences, and legacies of partition...
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Why Isn't Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy ? Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.'s And I Do Survive
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of queer theory, psychoanalysis, and critical race theory. His publications include “The Flight of the Eunuch: Mapping Homotextualities in South Asian Diaspora Literature” in the anthology Anxieties, Influences and After: Critical Responses to Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism (New Delhi: Worldview...
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Warrior Marks : Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 4–33.
Published: 01 September 1996
... of color 9
writers and activists. Parmar's interest in coalitions with US women
of color and Walker's desire to address a topic with "global" dimen-
sions has led to a collaboration that presents the tensions that arise
in multicultural feminism's imbrication within racialized diasporas...
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The Black Visual Experience: Hendrix, Porn, and Authenticity
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 65–93.
Published: 01 May 2011
... pornography as both performance and spectatorship. Ariane Cruz recently received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in African Diaspora studies with a designated emphasis in women, gender, and sexuality studies. She is currently serving as the Africana Research Center postdoctoral...
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What Is That and between Arab Women and Video? The Case of Beirut
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 41–69.
Published: 01 December 2003
... and videos of the Lebanese and Arab diasporas, I
wanted to learn what this production is like at the source. Watch-
ing the work and talking with artists and media organizers here, I
began to find that, insofar as we continue to ask how the conjunc-
tion and is deployed in “Arab women and video...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 1–3.
Published: 01 May 2014
... directors and their work. It encompasses
existential and temporal worlds; geopolitical formations such as
regions and nations; cultural worlds such as first nations, settler
cultures, and diasporas; and the industrial worlds of art cinema,
world cinema, and national cinemas. The essays offer...
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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
... to emigrate to first world metropolises, cross borders to less poor ones. Camera Obscura 2010 Michael T. Martin is the director of the Black Film Center/Archive and a professor of African American and African Diaspora studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Among his books, he is coeditor...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 223–225.
Published: 01 May 1995
... Berg. University of Minnesota Press, 1996. $19.95.
Cinemas ofthe Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality
edited by Michael T. Martin. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
Posthuman Bodies edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston. Indiana...
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Sense and Subjectivity
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the original
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scene of violence, their trauma nonetheless haunts them. The
diaspora is, as Khatharya Um has eloquently phrased it, “a site
inhabited simultaneously by continuities and discontinuities...
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Tactics of Tears: Excess/Erasure in the Gay Chinese Melodramas of Fleeing by Night and Lan Yu
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
... would like to begin by saying that Fleeing by Night is really
a film about diaspora as both material reality and existential
Excess/Erasure in Gay Chinese Melodramas • 149
metaphor; the tropes of migration and exile encapsulate not only
the state of flight...
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The Legend of the White-and-Yellow Black Man: Global Containment and Triangulated Racial Desire in Romeo Must Die
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 151–179.
Published: 01 May 2004
... ineluctable contradictions of our global-
ized age.
The movie stands at the intersection of two global trends.
The first is the diaspora of certain major players in the Hong
Kong film industry, a circumstance arising from the 1997 hand-
over of the island to the People’s Republic of China (PRC...
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Whitney is Every Woman?: Cultural Politics and the Pop Star
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 134–153.
Published: 01 September 1995
... upon logocentrism. Stuart Hall posits that through
Black music the Black Diaspora deconstructs the logocentric world
founded by the mastery of writing. He writes: “the people of the black
Diaspora have . . . found the deep form, the deep structure of their
cultural...
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Aural Topographies of Migration in Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 93–127.
Published: 01 December 2007
... in such a way that the institution of the cinema becomes
an architectural framework synecdotal for the nation. Benguigui’s
interstitial cultural positioning moreover justifes reading her flm
as inscribing this diaspora back into Algerian national history.
The mass recruitment of Algerian...
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The Male Sojourner, the Female Director, and Popular European Cinema: The Worlds of Susanne Bier
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 5–31.
Published: 01 May 2014
... lecturer in film and television studies at Monash University. She is the author of The Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and coauthor, with Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo, of Transnational Australian Cinema: Ethics in the Asian Diasporas (Lexington, 2013). Her essays have...
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The Minor Transnationalism of Queer Asian Cinema: Female Authorship and the Short Film Format
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
... at Monash University. She is author of The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity (Hong Kong University Press, 2007); coauthor, with Belinda Smaill and Audrey Yue, of Transnational Australian Cinema: Ethics in the Asian Diasporas (Lexington, 2013); and coeditor, with Sean Metzger, of Futures...
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