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.... Originally published in harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor (New York: Studio Museum of Harlem, 2004) Courtesy of the artist “Of la Baker, I Am a Disciple”: The Diva Politics of Reception Jeanne Scheper The US expatriate performer Josephine Baker (1906 – 75), who lived primarily...

... the Diva: Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle Introduction: The Good, the Bad, and the Fabulous; or, The Diva Issue Strikes Back Alexander Doty Since putting issue 65 (aka: “Fabulous! Divas, Part 1”) “to bed,” as they say, there has been quite a bit of diva activity to report. Origi- nally...

...Michael DeAngelis With Russell Crowe character attributes that might code the star as a narcissistic diva are recontextualized, constructing an authentic figure whose occasional acting out enhances his masculinity rather than feminizing him. This article contrasts the notion of the performer...

...Melissa Bradshaw “Devouring the Diva” explores the drives that push us to pursue, consume, and destroy the diva, arguing for a reading of the diva as a figure of feminine gendering and as a stand-in for the fetishized mother whom we ambivalently adore, mourn, and hate. Through an analysis...

... at the Movies (2004) and Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America (2006). Vincent Price and Me: Imagining the Queer Male Diva Harry M. Benshoff I do not know when I first became aware of Vincent Price, but by the age of ten I had developed an intense fixation on him...

... editor of Camera Obscura since 2004. The Dandy Diva Andrea Fontenot The dandy and the diva have grown up together. They meet in eighteenth-century England and France, and by the end of the nineteenth century they have become a well-established dyad. Every dandy has his favorite diva...

... Hotel in the Angel universe and learn to stake those pesky vampires. Ruby Red and Emerald Green: The Queer Demon Diva of My Dreams Lorrie Palmer What is a woman to do when she falls, and falls hard, for a green- skinned, red-eyed, seriously horned, nattily dressed, 6'2" male diva...

.... Frank Darabont, US, 1994) Diva Traffic and Male Bonding in Film: Teaching Opera, Learning Gender, Race, and Nation Charles I. Nero In the influential Between Men, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick points to “male homosocial desire” as the potentially erotic “continuum between homosocial...

...Brett Farmer Camera Obscura 2005 Brett Farmer is a senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships (Duke University Press, 2000) and is currently writing a new book on gay diva...

...-mama of Us All: Divas and the Cultural Logic of Late Ca(m)pitalism Edward R. O’Neill I was never erotic. I was snotty. — Marlene Dietrich, Marlene First you’re another sloe-eyed vamp, then someone’s mother, then you’re camp. —  Stephen Sondheim, “I’m Still Here” Performative...

... of Oz in the musical Wicked. Photo courtesy of Joan Marcus Wicked Divas, Musical Theater, and Internet Girl Fans Stacy Wolf Voice [of the “Diva”] is important, but like the scent of a flower it must be attached to beauty to be complete. And beauty is that undefinable charm...

...” and “Gossip's Stages: Theatre, Scandal, and Sexuality.” Publicity still of Joan Van Ark On the Bubble: The Soap Opera Diva’s Ambivalent Orbit Nick Salvato “To Be Fabulous” In a 2006 phone interview with two of her fans, the actress Joan Van Ark gestured, quite unintentionally, toward...

... with the figure of the tragic mulatto as instances of queer pleasure, both self-shattering and subject forming. In so doing, the essay pays tribute to that tragic mulatto as a spectacular mulata and diva. The spectacular mulata diva summons queer subjectivities; furthermore, she betrays larger national...

...Shane Vogel This essay examines Lena Horne's reputation in the first half of her career as a reserved, refined, and affectively distant diva. Approaching her performance of aloofness—communicated and enacted both on film and in live cabaret shows—as an acute response to the interracial intimacy...

.... Introduction: There’s Something about Mary Alexander Doty I was trained by the Catholic Church to be a diva worshipper. In pre – Vatican II days, at least, the Cult of the Blessed Virgin Mary was what seemed to set Catholicism apart from other Christian religions. Though long estranged from...

... 2006 Call for Papers Camera Obscura is planning a special issue titled Fabulous! The Diva Issue.   From actual goddesses to twenty-first century divinities in film, television, and popular music, the figure of the diva has captivated, inspired, and appalled. She (and, maybe, he...

... for manuscript preparation. For more information, please contact one of the editors or the Camera Obscura editorial office (cameraobscura@ filmstudies.ucsb.edu; 805-893-6079). Call for Papers Camera Obscura is planning a special issue titled Fabulous! The Diva Issue.   From actual goddesses to twenty...

... for manuscript preparation. For more information, please contact one of the editors or the Camera Obscura editorial office (cameraobscura@ filmstudies.ucsb.edu; 805-893-6079). Call for Papers Camera Obscura is planning a special issue titled Fabulous! The Diva Issue.   From actual goddesses to twenty...

...! The Diva Issue. From actual goddesses to twenty-fi rst century divinities in fi lm, television, and popular music, the fi gure of the diva has captivated, inspired, and appalled. She (and, maybe, he?) is larger-than-life and carries with her the cultural and psychic baggage of individuals...

...! The Diva Issue. From actual goddesses to twenty-fi rst century divinities in fi lm, television, and popular music, the fi gure of the diva has captivated, inspired, and appalled. She (and, maybe, he?) is larger-than-life and carries with her the cultural and psychic baggage of individuals...