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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 41–69.
Published: 01 September 2019
... through these questions, the article studies the documentary work of queer-feminist migrant labor activism in East Asia. This work offers particularly valuable insight into a strategy summarized here as sentimental activism : the simultaneous repetition and radical decentering of liberal rights discourse...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 43–75.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of modernity and traditional or religious law, this essay argues that Longinotto frames the women not as “primitive others” but as entrenched in the complex paradigms of modernity. Moreover, the four documentaries under consideration weave together the activities of expressing pain or witnessing the pain...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 155–185.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Independent Spirit Award for Visages Villages (Faces Places, France, 2018) While the release strategy of Visages Villages demonstrates a fairly typical model for a foreign-language documentary aiming for awards success in the United States, the social media activities of its directors—especially...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
... theory Canadian documentary video collectives media activism archives experimental video © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 Marusya Bociurkiw is the director of the Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought and an associate professor of media theory at Ryerson University in Toronto. She...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
... ignores the active exchanges—sometimes explicit, sometimes subterranean—taking place among filmmakers and their films across Asia. The contributions to queer Asian cinema of women filmmakers, many of whom have had long careers in television and documentary and short-film production, have not been...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 30–59.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of Pornhub’s Give America Wood initiative (2014) and the documentary Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story (2014). While Goodbye Gauley Mountain and Pornhub are incommensurate in many ways, together they demonstrate how masturbatory ecologies enable a relationship with the environment that can...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 71–97.
Published: 01 December 2003
... Documentary,” 280.
31. Escobar, “Art of Liberation,” 89.
32. John Greyson, “Strategic Compromises: AIDS and Alternative
Video Practices,” in Reimaging America, 63 and 72.
33. Ann Cvetkovich, “Video, AIDS, and Activism,” in Art, Activism,
and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage, ed. Grant...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 153–163.
Published: 01 May 2016
...
of Documentary Arts, are marketed and often consumed as a his-
torically significant curated collection with a distinct house style.
This complex play between individualized activism and collectivity
threads through New Day’s identity as both a dominant US inde-
pendent educational film distributor and one...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and
conventions of the action genre replace the delicate aesthetics of
transnational documentary feminism.
As Roxana Galusca explains, we are in the midst of a strik-
ing moment in the history of journalistic activism around prostitu-
tion, migration, and sex trafficking. According to Galusca...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 42–51.
Published: 01 September 1988
...Janet Bergstrom
The Theater of Everyday Life: Ulrike Ottinger's
China: The Arrs, Everyday Life
Janet Bergstrom
West Berlin has had a strong documentary filmmaking movement
throughout the history of the New German Cinema, and women have
played an important part in it by making...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 112–147.
Published: 01 September 1985
...Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985
Reconstructing Documentary:
Connie Hatch’s Representational Resistance
AbzguiZ Solomon- Godeuzl
Above my desk, affixed to my bulletin board is a poster from an exhibition
entitled Photo Politic which took place five...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 175–185.
Published: 01 May 2016
... been actively suppressed and
silenced by the state. Wu Wenguang, one of the founding figures
in Chinese independent documentary, seeks to revive this forgot-
ten memory through a collective filmmaking project that uses
Camera Obscura 91, Volume 31, Number 1
doi 10.1215/02705346-3454485 ©...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
Published: 01 December 2020
... documentary photographs that framed women as political actors. Snapshots of activists speaking in public (fig. 3) or performing street plays addressing gender vio- lence (fig. 4) made up a vernacular archive of feminist activism at the time, circulating as pamphlets and slide shows at meetings. Chhachhi...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 27–63.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Cunningham New York,
and Year of the Dog
Marc Francis
The Personal Question
Toward the end of the documentary Bill Cunningham New York (dir.
Richard Press, US, 2010), the filmmakers ask the famous fashion
photographer if he ever had a romantic relationship. Bill Cun-
ningham laughs...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 153–163.
Published: 01 December 2016
... engages in collective media production from Inuit women's perspectives with an explicit focus on gender. Arnait's video art, animation, fiction features, television programs, and documentaries address issues faced by women struggling for the recognition of indigenous and minoritarian cultures. The success...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and Jocelyn
Taylor,” in Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS
Activism, ed. Dangerous Bedfellows (Boston: South End, 1996),
53–71.
36. Though this information is not offered in the documentary...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2012
... activism. She has also published on affect and film pedagogy in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy . Nadia Awad is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work has been exhibited at flux factory, mauve? gallery, and Elizabeth Foundation Center. Her work questions...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
... notes in this fictional
archive identify this photograph as “Martha and Fae at home.
(mid-1930s Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings:
Documentary and Popular Culture
Ann Cvetkovich
Every lesbian is worthy of inclusion in history. If you have...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 219–226.
Published: 01 December 1989
... that
material published, even in Jump Cut, because it did not come to any
conclusions (and probably also because some of the women had dis-
cussed sado-masochistic sexual fantasies and activities).It was precisely
the openness of the discussion that I found fascinating, and it led...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 93–121.
Published: 01 May 2016
...-garde, French and Spanish queer cinema, audience research, and transgender documentary. © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 video collectives Carole Roussopoulos Portapak post-1968 French activism Figure 1. Y a qu’à pas baiser! ( Just Don’t Fuck!,
dir. Carole Roussopoulos, France, 1973...
