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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 107–137.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Suzanne Gauch Relating the trajectory of a young Franco-Moroccan woman who returns to her native city of Fez and embraces a mystical form of Islam, Farida Benlyazid's 1988 feature film A Door to the Sky has become a mainstay at international women's film festivals and in classes on gender...
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in From Cannes to Cardboard: The Circulation and Promotion of Visages Villages and the Auteur on Instagram
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 6. Still from one of Varda's Instagram videos, with photographs of Jacques Demy near the door to her home (Agnès Varda, 2017)
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in Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 3. Barbara typing “tak tak tak” and being interrupted by the “BAM BAM BAM” of someone knocking on the door. “A Little Knowledge,” Showcase94 , no. 12 (December 1994), DC Comics, 1. Scan provided by the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection at Michigan State University
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 131–136.
Published: 01 September 1977
..., in the space of the
film: they are the film. What Maisie saw is one staging (framing) of the
primal scene after another: people make love through doors, framed by
doors, half-hidden, then revealed and then hidden again with the closing
of a door or a movement out of the (door) frame...
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 6–70.
Published: 01 September 1980
... consists of the displace-
ment of codesY2then the textual analysis of film, in order to (re)constitute
this system, can only proceed by integrating its own codes differently-
by displacing them.
I. Credits, Creation
Shot I. Fade-in. In the middle of an iron-
studded door, a doorknocker...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 65–93.
Published: 01 May 2011
... situating the tape in the field of
pornography, I evoke a coetaneous pornographic performance of
black male authenticity in the filmBehind the Green Door (dir. Artie
Mitchell and Jim Mitchell, US, 1972) to interrogate pornography’s
authentication of a particular form of black masculinity, legible...
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Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 128–139.
Published: 01 May 1976
....; B&W; 16mm; sound.
The chrome-glass circle of a washing machine door, doors: variations on
repetitions and multiples of them, their motion opening and closing on
what might or might not be inside. Tight, humorous sound and image
play; reflections of the filmmaker are caught in the shiny...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 46–63.
Published: 01 September 1990
... thought she was being. But she created desire. The next night, at
sea, I dream that Raymond dreams of a song, befitting the banality
of occidental male desire: “Where the veils are, someone waits for
me At the door of the videotape (after the first ambiguous fuck and
a pop-up...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 141–143.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and Rosemary K. J. Davis share a relieved smile after packing up Hammer's archive. The first email I got from Barbara included very specific directions about which door I should use to get into her building. She apologized for how difficult it would be to park. I told her not to worry. The driver ended...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2001
...-
gering on their doors as an often unseen narrator details the
bar’s lesbian history and the site’s present function. While they
no longer function as portals to lesbian space, as doors that
once functioned as such, they still mark for the viewer...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 39–71.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of Oz. Fiyero,
now the Scarecrow (Joey McIntyre), knocked on a trapdoor
in the Gershwin Theatre’s stage floor to summon Elphaba, the
Wicked Witch of the West (Shoshana Bean), who had faked her
own death, to come out of hiding. Instead of the trap door open-
ing and Elphaba/Bean’s head...
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 28–59.
Published: 01 September 1983
... frame from cinema film. "Just
imagine: the story comes to a halt, movement ceases, the sound-track falls
silent. You ask yourself: 'but what's going on?' For 25 minutes, this:
light, color, the slow, irregular building up of a representation-a door
opens, on a secret perhaps...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 157–188.
Published: 01 May 2024
...: “Being seen by others [as transgender] brings you into the world, but more often than not it is also that which might bring you out of it.” 9 This vicious paradox is at the center of the anthology Trap Door , edited by Tourmaline, Eric Stanley, and Johanna Burton: “We are living in a time of trans...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 169–193.
Published: 01 May 1988
... narrative goal is firmly established: he needs to return some
books to the library. But, even then, he is consistently sidetracked
along the way to water the neighbor’s lawn, to play with mechanical
gadgets, to fight with the boy next-door, etc:
And then he can’t get past...
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 198–210.
Published: 01 May 1979
... differently, it’s really just dancing normally, or walking to a
door. My interest then is in what I call a kind of realistic impact of the
performance. Therefore it has to do with time and with the camera
working in a traditional kind of way - the recording of an action...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 93–115.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., as Tali says, alcohol enters through one door but does
not leave through another.
Tali is Mecha’s cousin. She also has four children, and a husband
who loves his house, his children, and hunting. She lives in La Ciénaga,
in a house without a pool. Two accidents will unite these two families out...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 71–95.
Published: 01 May 1993
..., the first two shots are concatenated according to this
logic [Figs. 1 and 21. We have first a typical establishing shot, the
wedding party approaching the nuptial chamber and concluding with
their arrival at the bedroom door, followed by-through the conven-
tion of a match on action cut...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 83–111.
Published: 01 December 2001
... that evening, as
she socializes with casino guests, she wears a jeweled cap with
attached earrings and a cutout sequined dress that fits her like
snake skin. When Alexis accompanies her home, we glimpse her
apartment, which is rendered in Deco/oriental style, with arches,
stenciled doors, Middle Eastern...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 179–186.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Girls (US). Rothman and Swartz left
Dimension Pictures in 1974, after which Rothman worked tirelessly
to move into mainstream filmmaking.
After ten years of struggling to break the Hollywood gender
barrier for directors, and finding all doors closed to her, Rothman
retired from the film...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 34–49.
Published: 01 May 1992
... of Ashenden’s first meeting with Elsa (Madeleine Carroll).
Before he enters the apartment, he pauses to see if it is the right one,
and there are two point of view shots-the slip from the hotel desk
with 271 on it and the number 271 on the door-that establish...
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