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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
...Michael T. Martin While slavery is distinctive in human history, its enduring legacy and practices in the modern world are manifest in the “disposable” labor that provisions the brothels, sweatshops, and agricultural plantations in the global economy. This interview with filmmaker Amy Serrano...
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Ethical Whiteness and the Death Drive: White Women as the New War Hero
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... ethical questions around white imperial violence, the disposability of brown lives, and the current political shift of and toward white women in positions of intense power. The article argues that these two technologies of domination—visual culture that entertains its citizens and political practice...
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Making Television Live: Mediating Biopolitics in Obesity Programming
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
... focuses on questions of race and the human in relation to the history and theory of technology, media, and communication within twentieth-century US modernity. © 2015 by Camera Obscura 2015 reality television liveness biopolitics obesity disposability Figure 1. “Obesity Is Suicide...
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Castle & Crook: Necroliberalism and Cartographies of Abandonment in Maquilapolis ( City of Factories ) and Señorita Extraviada ( Missing Young Woman )
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2024
... line work while in horizontal formation against the backdrop of a hill with the plant on its crest. This focus on verticality indexes the distinction between politically valued and disposable forms of life. In a critique of the modernizing fantasies of primitive accumulation, enclosure...
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Teutonic Water: Effervescent Otherness in Doris Dörrie's Nobody Loves Me
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 177–201.
Published: 01 September 2000
... and/or disposed of extend to German culture as a
whole. Fanny’s fear of dying makes sense in a world peopled by
characters like Lothar Sticker, who, despite his professed vegetari-
anism, his fear of meeting up in heaven with the reproachful
stares...
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The Mysteries of Voice: Love and Transnational Identification in Performing the Border, The Price of Sex , and Señorita extraviada
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... instance, Biemann theorizes how
globalization renders women’s bodies as fragmented, interchange-
able, and disposable (like the products they assemble in the maqui-
las). “By border culture,” narrates Biemann, “we mean the robotic
repetitive process of assembly work, the intimate implication...
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Appendix: Rainer's descriptions of her films
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Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 71–75.
Published: 01 May 1976
... that can be synthesized into a story if one is disposed to do so.
(A European woman lion-tamer comes to America and takes up choreo-
graphy.) The film can also be characterized by its discursions from a strict
narrative line via reflections on art, love, and catastrophe sustained...
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Once in a Lifetime: Constructing “The Working Woman” through Cable Narrowcasting
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 12–41.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of the women’s movement. In retrospect, this equal right
to addiction and lung disease holds little humor. At the time, however,
it marked the recognition of a new market: females with considerable
disposable income who maintained control over that income. With
manufacturers targeting advertisements...
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Stories
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 1992
... by finessing it. At their
age that would be poetic. Using all the fi-
nesse at his disposal to lick the downward
slope, he stretched for home. But, the.
call was “out.” On the other hand, if
they didn’t win, well, he...
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What Maisie Knew by Babette Mangolte : CHILDHOOD AS POINT-OF-VIEW
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 131–136.
Published: 01 September 1977
... what they want, project
what they want. Her mother, who does not love her, in a typical 'projec-
tion', decides that Maisie is a hypocritical child, an unloving daughter.
The already cinematic dispositi/which is worked here, the problem]ames
gave himself, was 'to make and keep her so limited...
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Virginia Wright Wexman
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 323–327.
Published: 01 December 1989
... of their
research in the future.
My own interest in women as historical subjects also has its draw-
backs, the most obvious being its lack of theoretical rigor-especially
in comparison to the extensive theoretical arsenal at the disposal of
feminists exploring the ramifications of spectator positioning...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 1–7.
Published: 01 December 2001
... to the early
years of the twentieth century. Just as at the turn of the last cen-
tury, at the turn of the new millennium new forms of tabloid star-
dom have produced female stars with an inherent disposability—
“Survivor” stars or “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire” stars—or
new forms of cipher-like...
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Mary Cassatt
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 111–119.
Published: 01 September 1983
...
the axisof her look projects, Cassatt refuses to situate the woman simply at
the voyeuristic disposal of the spectator's gaze. On the other hand, the
effect of Cassatt's sensuous coloration of the woman's skin and costume,
enhanced by lively brushwork, holds the spectator's gaze...
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“The Secret's in the Sauce”: Dismembering Normativity in Fried Green Tomatoes
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 124–159.
Published: 01 September 1999
... disposal-one significant way that the text links
blackness, lesbianism, cannibalism, and "down-home cookin It is a
striking omission, in otherwise lucid arguments, since this figuration
pivotally reveals the film's own uneasiness about its handling of race
and sexuality. 22...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2015
... television in complex ways, making use of the discourses at our disposal to describe, deconstruct, and, I would argue, even disturb those dynamics. Andi: And why a feminist journal? That is, what in particular makes reality television a feminist issue or something that demands a feminist analysis one...
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The Reserve Army of Affectivity: Unemployed Labor in William Greaves's Psychodramatic Cinéma Vérité
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Greaves's film in similarly extractive terms: to repair communication in this educational film is to capture one group for the purposes of sensitizing another. I regard the outcome of this process, the reserve army of affectivity, as racialized because one group's disposability becomes converted...
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Men in Feminism
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 206–214.
Published: 01 May 1988
..., is not so easily disposed of.
Smith was claiming it before, and it’s not clear that he can disburden
himself of the claim now. According to Paul BovC in Intellectuals in
Power, such laying of claims to moral legitimacy is (or has been) an
inevitable part of institutional activity. I agree...
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House Body House
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 185–197.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., a shock to those caught amid them. “They are electrically charged and when handled properly they will undergo life-like transformations and as they are touched they communicate to the toucher, flood the toucher with the most extreme sensations they could normally feel. The genitals-meat are disposed so...
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Cinematic Exile: Performing the Foreign Body on Screen in Roman Polanski's The Tenant
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 1–43.
Published: 01 May 2000
... foregrounds the
presence of garbage in the apartment building. Many times in
the film we watch Trelkovsky carrying trash to the garbage bin, or
we repeatedly see other tenants around the garbage disposal.
Similarly, the narrative emphasizes the watchful...
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On Film Studies and the Unconscious
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 39–67.
Published: 01 December 2012
... — soulless and calculating,
full of murderous and not quite healthy designs on the family unit
(and speci cally on the mother). Furthermore, the evil father has
at his disposal an arsenal of advanced machinery, and he plans
to use it to conquer the world. The good father is powerless one-
on- one...
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