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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 115–143.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Emma Ben Ayoun Abstract Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone (France, 2012) and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water (US, 2017) tell, in very different ways, a familiar story: a disabled, female protagonist is rehabilitated by romance, restored in her role as the object of heterosexual desire...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 165–173.
Published: 01 May 2016
...-motion animated films that explicitly consider questions of disability, gender, and political action. This article considers in particular the short films The Toll Collector (US, 2003), made by Lift founder Rachel Johnson, and Henrietta Bulkowski , currently in production at Lift. It argues that both...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of subjection through blindness—by governmental, military, and medical regimes—and to suggest that blindness can be mobilized to recover subjectivity. I trace how both “cultural” and medical diagnoses of ability and disability constitute the grounds for a troubling reiteration of power and knowledge and create...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 55–87.
Published: 01 September 2015
... visible borders in space, the film illustrates how psychoanalytically and phenomenologically informed, expansive notions of the body and perceptual field matter for understanding transgender and other forms of gender dissonance. Drawing on disability studies, queer theory, and transgender theory...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 155–165.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Zach Blas; Jacob Gaboury This conversation between scholar Jacob Gaboury and artist Zach Blas explores the unique challenges posed by contemporary digital media technology to the political projects of queer, feminist, critical race, and disability studies. Asking how we might negotiate the politics...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 197–207.
Published: 01 September 2018
... meanings of humanity. Popular among contemporary participatory documentary interventions aiming to empower dehumanized subjects such as impoverished children, disaster victims, disabled individuals, and endangered animals, immediations include tropes such as the photographic aesthetic of innocence...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 141–171.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Zara Dinnen Abstract This essay considers the figure of the “user” as an emergent subject of late twentieth‐century US culture, in relation to the World Wide Web and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. The user is a subject position that is historical in the sense that use relations have...
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 4–29.
Published: 01 September 1999
... by NYPD officers and their families, who
have used mob connections to buy homes outside of the district they
patrol. Freddy is the shy, gentle sheriff of Garrison who longs to be a
member of the NYPD but is barred from the force by a disability, a
hearing loss incurred when...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 1–5.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Fall 2025), an unfair tiered payment system that favors UC San Francisco, UC Los Angeles, and UC Berkeley, and the systematic neglect of our most vulnerable workers, including parents and those with dependents, workers with disabilities, and international students, among others. While there were many...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2017
... on your bike ride over here When either driver chooses
a dialogue option, all other options are temporarily disabled on
both of their screens to allow time for performance on stage. A
projection behind the stage, facing the audience, shows both the
available and disabled options along with cartoon...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 59–89.
Published: 01 September 2022
... overcame his speech impediment, “indistinctness and lisping,” by, as Plutarch describes, “taking pebbles in his mouth and then reciting speeches.” 45 As Martha Rose argues, Demosthenes circulates as “an emblem of rhetorical skill and a model of overcoming disability,” with the latter distinction...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 137–159.
Published: 01 May 2014
...-
ing on known hot-button moral issues such as suicide (The Virgin
Suicides [dir. Sofia Coppola, US, 1999 abortion Palindromes(
[dir. Todd Solondz, US, 2004 pedophilia (Happiness [dir. Todd
Solondz, US, 1998], Life during Wartime [dir. Todd Solondz, US,
2009 and disability (The Safety...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 155–157.
Published: 01 September 1995
... Disability in American Cultwe and
Literature by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. Columbia University Press, 1997.
$16.50.
Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race by Ann Pellegrini.
Routledge, 1996. $17.95.
Lesbian Configurations by Renee C. Hoogland. Columbia University Press,
1997...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 194–199.
Published: 01 May 2008
...
to face his attacker with a smile full of blood. His singing voice, his
most potent diva tool, can belt out a passionate “Lady Marmalade”
like Patti LaBelle, but it can also be used as a weapon, like the
proverbial velvet hammer. Lorne uses his upper register to disable,
but not to injure, his...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 54–75.
Published: 01 September 1991
.... In the tradition of Lacanian psychoanalysis,
“what the woman lacks is lack, the ability to represent for herself a
distance from the body which is the prerequisite for desire.”6 This
closeness to the object, Doane writes, disables fetishism and voyeurism
as options for the female spectator.
Freud...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2017
...) and
Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), are Korean War veterans who
have difficulty fitting back into civilian life. Marco is disabled by
bewildering nightmares. Shaw is almost incapable of emoting and
making personal connections. Unbeknownst to them, their prob-
lems arise in part from the fact...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 243–274.
Published: 01 May 1997
... of the monster on the slab. The damaged
parts of this disabled body (which may be a human with chromosomal
peculiarities) first began with a burnt wound on the thigh, but we
have watched a vagina-like gash grow from crotch to gullet, like a
victim of Jack the Ripper (like the death of Lulu, played...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 1–33.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., the film crew). Her muttered
refrain, “Come here. Don’t let go of the children. Come home.
Take the children by the arm,” has no audience within the dieg-
esis but, I suggest, echoes beyond the final frame.
Makhmalbaf presents both mother and daughters as physi-
cally and verbally disabled...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 149–187.
Published: 01 May 2002
... by simultaneously thematizing and baring the
device, that is, by presenting visual technologies as means of pro-
duction as well as of revolution. By assuming panspecies, visual
media literacy throughout, Babe disables the human power of
self-determination made available through visual technologies...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 129–160.
Published: 01 May 1997
... and . . .
iron will,” writes Robert Matthews, “are as legendary as his intel-
le~tMany have noted, including Hawking’s own family, that his
ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) may have empowered and motivated his
genius: “Profound disability can confer an unexpected power to con...
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