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Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and Serial Drama, 1946–1970
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 203–225.
Published: 01 January 1988
... Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Da llas
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Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and
Serial Drama, 1946-1970
UCLA Film and Television Archive: Dan Einstein and Nina Leibman...
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Melodrama and Social Drama in the Early German Cinema
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 73–89.
Published: 01 January 1990
...Heide Schlüpmann Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Melodrama and Social Drama in the
Early German Cinema
Heide Schliipmunn
During the period from 1911-12, film producers made a determined
effort to adapt the cinema to the aesthetic cosmos...
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Archaeological Narrative; or, Nostalgic Fascination with the Obsolete in the South Korean TV Drama Reply 1988
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 61–93.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Kyoung-Lae Kang Abstract This article considers how a Korean television drama, Reply 1988 (tvN, 2015–16), functions as a form of public archaeology through its on-screen display of obsolete TV sets and televisual footage, treating television as a historical medium to illuminate the lives of those...
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Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Huike Wen Dwelling Narrowness ( Wo ju , translated literally as “snail dwelling”) became Chinese netizens' “favorite TV drama” in 2009. In this paper, I focus on a complex of issues in contemporary Chinese society about which Dwelling Narrowness provoked extensive discussion: love, sex...
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Interfaces of Identity: Oriental Traitors and Telematic Profiling in 24
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Lisa Nakamura Images of biometric screens are becoming increasingly common in television and film, particularly in genres such as police procedurals, “terror” television programs, and medical dramas. Digital surveillant screens establish and produce authority and scientific truths about national...
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“The Harder I Swim, the Faster I Sink”: Top of the Lake ’s Female Detective in the Global Television Economy
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 71–101.
Published: 01 September 2019
... a countermodel to crime television focused on forensic progress through a case. Campion similarly takes the container of serialized crime drama that circulates the globe in a post-network television landscape and creates space for women’s stories from the Antipodes. Pausing the narrative to indict the treatment...
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“Quality” Reality and the Bravo Media Reality Series
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 185–195.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Jane Feuer This essay attempts to break down a binary opposition between “quality TV” and reality TV, which is usually set up along an axis of distinction based on aesthetic value. That is: HBO dramas are art; reality TV shows are trash. As Misha Kavka writes, “Because reality television is seen...
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From Elif to Esty? Unorthodox and Turkish German Cinema's Captivity Narrative
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Olivia Landry Abstract The 2020 Netflix drama series Unorthodox draws on tropes from a vexed archive of transcultural cinema, in particular Turkish German cinema. Through the frame of the captivity narrative, this essay examines how the series about a young Hasidic Jewish woman who escapes her...
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No Bodies Business: Trapdoor Tactics and the Art of Transgender Disappearance in A Fantastic Woman
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 157–188.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Curran Nault Abstract Chilean Academy Award–winning drama, Una mujer fantástica/A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio, 2017), is a film that navigates past the superficiality of surface into a transgender interiority and imagination situated below and against dominant culture's demand...
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Index to Camera Obscura/16, 17, 18 (volume 6)
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 157–159.
Published: 01 September 1988
... Xiaolian. No.18; pp. 26-31.
Interview with Hu MeL No.18; pp. 32-41.
Berry, Sarah
Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and Serial Drama, 1946•
1970: Museum of Broadcasting (New York). No.16; pp. 205-225.
Bukatman, Scott
Paralysis in Motion: Jerry Lewis's Life as a Man. No.17; pp. 195-205...
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The Interpellations of Interpolation; or, The Disintegrating Female Musical Body
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 89–111.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of Robbins’s hope for a vaudeville
extravaganza. On the other hand, though, this tension between
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vaudeville and narrative drama remains elsewhere: the score
of Gypsy reveals a host of musical numbers, half...
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From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of Nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema, 1927-1931
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 193–231.
Published: 01 December 2005
... is not so much about the itinerary of the
American serial queen in Chinese cultural scenes as about the
rise of a particular configuration of the female body on the Chi-
nese silent screen.
First, I will examine the burgeoning media culture at the
high point of modern Chinese popular drama (New...
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All that Television Allows: TV Melodrama, Postmodernism and Consumer Culture
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 128–153.
Published: 01 January 1988
...Lynne Joyrich Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
All that Television Allows: TV Melodrama,
Postmodernism and Consumer Culture
Lynne ]oyrich
I. Drama at Our Fingertips
In an emotionally charged...
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The Oblivious Transfer: Analyzing Blue Velvet
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 76–91.
Published: 01 May 1992
... a position of biological
autism-because I speak as a woman-but in order to indicate a drama
central to the transference involved in analyzing Blue Velvet.
4. Cracking Up
Imagine a film that begins like this: There is a man who cannot get a
grip on things. He opens...
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Stripping on the Girl Channel: Lifetime, thirtysomething , and Television Form
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 166–191.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Laura Stempel Mumford Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 thirtysomething
Stripping on the Girl Channel:
Lifetime, thirtysomething, and Television Form
Laura Stempel Mumford
Television drama texts are defined as much...
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Editorial
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 4–7.
Published: 01 January 1990
... German cinema, Schliipmann analyzes two genres, melodrama
and social drama. While film melodrama of this period in German
history can be seen as a (sometimes less than successful) attempt to
meet the theatrical standards of the cultured middle class, social drama
retained affiliations...
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The Womans Picture and the Poetics of Melodrama
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 120–147.
Published: 01 May 1993
... of these ways centers on character psychology and derives
from a tradition of literary criticism exemplified by Robert Heilman’s
Tragedy and Mel~drama.~Heilman defines the tragic hero as a divided
character who brings about his own downfall; in opposition...
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Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 90–129.
Published: 01 January 1990
... descendants of the “lowbrow” sensational or “blood
and thunder” melodrama that dominated popular theater and cheap
literature around the turn of the century. But the serial-queen melo-
drama is probably most striking because of its extraordinary emphasis
on female heroism.
Within a sensational...
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Editorial: Television and the Female Consumer
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 4–8.
Published: 01 January 1988
... strategies to spectators, and still others attempt to join these
two approaches.
Some of the contributors investigate the cultural, social and economic
contexts in which texts are produced and received. George Lipsitz, for
example, investigates ethnic and working-class dramas of the 1950s with
respect...
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On the Bubble: The Soap Opera Diva's Ambivalent Orbit
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 103–123.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Nick Salvato Camera Obscura 2007 Nick Salvato is an assistant professor of theater studies at Cornell University. He received his PhD from Yale University's Department of English in spring 2006. He is currently working on two book projects, “Uncloseting Drama: Modernism's Queer Theatres...
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