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Making Electricity: Narrating Gender, Sexuality, and the Neoliberal Transition in Billy Elliot
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
...David Alderson Most discussions of Billy Elliot have either taken for granted an understanding of the historical event that it treats or failed to engage with that context completely. Written during the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1984–85 miners' strike, this article considers the film...
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Melodrama, Masculinity, and the Family: thirtysomething as Therapy
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 86–107.
Published: 01 January 1989
... against the form’s as-
sociation with femininity.
thirtysomething focuses on an extended “family” of friends who live
in or around Philadelphia: the happily married Michael and Hope,
the emotional centers of the show; Elliot, Michael’s best friend and
business...
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Child/Alien/Father: Patriarchal Crisis and Generic Exchange
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 6–35.
Published: 01 December 1986
... patriarchal form without yielding
traditional patriarchal power, and thus is able to reside in (terrestrial)
domestic space and serve as Elliot’s surrogate father. Linking E.T. with
the childish fathers, adult children, and “surrogate families” of the new
family melodrama, Marina...
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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
....
Although thirtysomething‘s primary focus was on the core house-
hold of the Steadman family, viewers who watched it in its original
weekly cycle were always aware, for instance, of an amorphous but
ongoing arc about the failure of Michael and Elliot’s ad agency, since
their business problems...
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The Archive, the Phallus, and the Future
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 186–193.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Karen Beckman Camera Obscura 2007 Karen Beckman is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Associate Professor of Film Studies in the history of art department at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism (2003) and “Little Bastard”: Car...
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Smokin' Tokens: thirtysomething and TV's Queer Dilemma
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 192–211.
Published: 01 May 1994
... characters (Russell
befriends Melissa [Melanie Mayron], and Peter works with the pro-
tagonists Michael and Elliot at the advertising agency DAA). Melissa
very nonchalantly tells Michael (Ken Olin) that his colleague Peter is
gay, and Elliot (Timothy Busfield) introduces...
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Agnès Varda: Photography and Early Creative Process
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 215–229.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Tarr, and Elliot Evans (Bern: Peter Lang, 2019), 37–54. 13. Conway, Agnès Varda , 34. 14. Varda, Varda par Agnès , 116–17. 15. Varda includes fleeting details of two images in the film Varda by Agnès . 16. Varda, Varda par Agnès , 114–15. She was invited to present...
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Surviving the Reset: Speedrunning Spyro , Trans Mundanity, and Playing in the Impasse
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 149–175.
Published: 01 December 2024
... such as those of Caitlyn Jenner and Elliot Page, who, although in a different format, receive similar treatment. Jenner's Vanity Fair cover shoot in lingerie that coyly commands, “Call me Caitlyn,” or Elliot Page's appearance on Time that confidently announces, “I'm fully who I am,” serve as an unveiling...
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Beyond Cosmo : AIDS, Identity and Inscriptions of Gender
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 20–77.
Published: 01 January 1992
... in a November 1991 Off Our
Backs article entitled “Does Lesbian Sex Transmit AIDS? GET
REAL!”57 Author Beth Elliot cited many of the arguments against
lesbian transmission I have reported here, arguing that lesbians’ real
priority should be to tell the public that “lesbian sex...
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The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 150–176.
Published: 01 May 1992
... Issues . Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983 . Morris , Jan Conundrum . New York: Henry Holt, 1986 . Nettick , Geri , and Beth Elliot. “The Transsexual Vampire.” In Lonely and a Long Way From Home: The Life and Strange Adventures of a Lesbian Transsexual [mss]. Forthcoming...
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A Pygmalion Tale Retold: Remaking La Femme Nikita
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 133–175.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Elliot, “Warner Bros. Misses the Point with Fonda Film,”
San Diego Tribune, 18 March 1993.
42. Desson Howe, “Few Good Points in No Return,” Washington Post,
19 March 1993.
43. Jane Gallop, Reading Lacan (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
1985), 66.
44. See Venuti, “Simpatico...
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Traumatic Postmodern Histories: Velvet Goldmine 's Phantasmatic Testimonies
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 157–185.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of the Holocaust, ed. Elliot Lefkowitz (Evanston, IL:
Northwestern University Press, 1977), 9; Theodor W. Adorno,
“Cultural Criticism and Society,” in Prisms, trans. Samuel Weber
and Shierry Weber (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983), 34. Miriam
Bratu Hansen points out the ease of simplifying...
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Laurel and Hardy Queer the Fraternity: The Comedy Duo and Heterosexual Brotherhood in Sons of the Desert
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 97–129.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of men dressed in fez (denoting
supposed cultural Otherness) and sashes marked with “Califor-
nia” meet to listen to their “exalted ruler” ( John Elliot). This old
man is a mystically ominous and nearly skeletal figure sinisterly lit
from below and towering above the seated lodge members...
