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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
... as a dumbed-down media form with a low entry threshold for participants, its diminished cultural value rubs off on participants' claim to fame, while its reputation for creating D-list celebrities confirms reality TV's low cultural value.” While this is true of reality TV in general, this article suggests...
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Deanna Durbin and the Mismatched Voice
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 69–98.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of adolescence and expose the mismatch as a zone of liminality that can be confined to neither the diegesis nor the father. The instability of Durbin's voice is exemplified by the two halves of her cinematic oeuvre. Prior to US entry into the Second World War, Universal presented Deanna Durbin as a young...
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The Auto-Tuned Self: Modulating Voice and Gender in Digital Media Ecologies
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 65–97.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Lisa Åkervall Abstract This essay takes the auto-tuned viral video “Can't Hug Every Cat” as a point of entry for a broader analysis of how modulation decisively shapes politics, aesthetics, and gendering in contemporary digital ecologies. It uncovers how the exaggerated exhibitions of feminine...
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Errata
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 155.
Published: 01 December 1980
... © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 Errata 155
Camera Obsctiraf5
Note 36 of “The Film-Work,2” should read: Lyotard, “Fiscours, di-
gure, l’utopie du fantasme in Discours, Figure.
In the Index, the first entry under Bertrand Augst should...
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Addenda
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 155.
Published: 01 December 1980
... © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 Errata 155
Camera Obsctiraf5
Note 36 of “The Film-Work,2” should read: Lyotard, “Fiscours, di-
gure, l’utopie du fantasme in Discours, Figure.
In the Index, the first entry under Bertrand Augst should...
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The World and the Soup: Historicizing Media Feminisms in Transnational Contexts
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of One’s Own in 1929, one year after women attained full suf-
frage in Britain, she begins from the thinness, the transparency of
the soup served at a women’s college to contemplate how women’s
entry into a now presumably nongendered public sphere in Britain
is impeded by systemic institutional...
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Missing Dolly, Mourning Slavery: The Slave Notice as Keepsake
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 71–103.
Published: 01 May 2006
... work, politics, and history, Manigault’s journal
entries bring these entities together under the cover of one book.
First of all, there are no photographs of the Manigault family in this
book. But this family album mixes family matters, business records,
and events of the war. Records of crops...
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The Last Days of Women's Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 145–151.
Published: 01 December 2006
.... Denise Bostrom and Jane Warrenbrand)
encouraged the entry into distribution, which came to be and
remains the organization’s focus. Debra Zimmerman, director
since 1984, found out about Women Make Movies at a women-
only screening in an upstate...
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“I’m Washing My Dishes and Making a Movie”: Anne Charlotte Robertson and World-Making as Women’s Work
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 60–87.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... As Robertson writes in a diary entry on 5 January 1979, My resolutions were: lose weight (to ideal), find lover (of life The diary project is initially explicitly framed as a record of this labor, a weight- loss diary that cycles through vari- ous titles in its early incarnations Fat, Loose Wait, Fat: Her...
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The Unspeakable
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 4–6.
Published: 01 September 1990
... or objectionable. 3. Not to be spoken:
an unspeakable word.
The American Heritage Dictionary
To the memory of Craig Owens
There is an odd logic to this entry for the adjective unspeakable: odd,
or paradoxical, since its job is to describe what...
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Introduction
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 4–17.
Published: 01 May 1992
... upon the following index entry to the 1976 edition of the
textbook Williams’ Obstetrics:
CHAUVINISM, MALE, variable amounts, 1-923.15
This is the broad context in which Estelle Fletcher, a physician
currently in an obstetrics and gynecology residency, examines...
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Queer-ing Texture: Tactility, Spatiality, and Kinesthetic Empathy in She Monkeys
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 121–154.
Published: 01 December 2017
... register.
128 • Camera Obscura
Figure 2. Emma’s entry
Precarious Orientations:
Finding One’s Feet in She Monkeys
Tactile, muscular engagement is foregrounded from the outset
and shapes our initial contact with, and entry into, the film.She
Monkeys opens with a static shot of trees...
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How to Suppress Women's Remix
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 131–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
...).
6. Lev Grossman, “Time’s Person of the Year: You,” Time
Magazine, 13 December 2006, time.com/time/magazine/
article/0,9171,1569514,00.html.
7. Laura Shapiro, comment to astolat’s LiveJournal entry, “Vidding
and Imeem.com,” 2 December 2006.
8. Tzikeh, comment to Henry Jenkins...
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Painting and Cinema: The Frames of Discourse
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 95–105.
Published: 01 September 1988
... eventually synthesizes through his own "deframing" critical
approach.
Trompe I'oeil and anamorphosis are critical keystones supporting
decadrag». Bonitzer sees Renaissance one-point perspective as a kind
of track-in allowing the spectator's entry into a painting-a linear path...
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Video Letter by Shuntaro Tanikawa and Shuji Terayama: An Introduction
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 195–203.
Published: 01 September 1990
... his heartbeat quiets
and becomes straight. The videotape then ends with an image of a
poem by Terayama posted on a pole by the sea:
20 years old. In May I was born
I tread on the Ieaves
and read young horse chestnuts
Now is the time
At the entry to my season
BashfulIy...
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A Feminist Still: Documentary Form and Untimely Critique in Sheba Chhachhi’s Protest Photography
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
Published: 01 December 2020
... have argued, the fate of minoritarian or Third World subjects under liberal capitalism is conditioned by the double bind of needing political representa- tion and visibility from the nation- state, which thereby reproduces our epistemic erasure. In other words, our entry into the political sphere...
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Histories of The Watermelon Woman : Reflexivity between Race and Gender
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
...
that Fae was romantically involved with a white female director,
Martha Page (Alexandra Juhasz).
The Watermelon Woman thus leaves us a variety of reflexive
and authorial points of entry with which to contend. First, there
are the multiple jobs Cheryl holds in the bottom rungs of motion...
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Reassemblage : Sketch of Sound Track
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 104–111.
Published: 01 September 1985
...
Sun and palms
The part of Senegal where tourist settlements flourish
A film about what? my friends ask.
A film about Senegal; but what in Senegal?
In Enampor
Andre Manga says his name is listed in the tourist information book.
Above the entry of his house is a hand-written sign which says...
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Anne Friedberg
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 165–168.
Published: 01 December 1989
... direct entrance to feminine subjectivity (Cixous 1976;
Cixous and Clkment 1986; Irigaray 1985a, 1985b).And female literary
modernists presented a unique point of entry. Literary modernism itself
offered texts which exemplified writerly attempts to reshuffle language
away from its codes...
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Deux Fois : Shot Commentary
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Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 27–38.
Published: 01 May 1976
... space is also emphasized by the entry of an arm into the edge of the
frame and byvirtue of the fact that it is only a portion of the body.
The silence creates a strange kind of dislocation since the expected die-
getic noise would be that of a moving train. The clinking noise...
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