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The Theater of Everyday Life: Ulrike Ottinger's China: The Arts, Everyday Life

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Janet Bergstrom
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 42–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-3_18-42
Published: 01 September 1988
...Janet Bergstrom Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 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...
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Naruse Mikio's Silent Films: Gender and the Discourse of Everyday Life in Interwar Japan

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Catherine Russell
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 57–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-20-3_60-57
Published: 01 December 2005
... the subjective space of the I-novel (shishosetsu) with the modernity of everyday life: although Marxist critics advocated pro- letarian realism as being most appropriate to the everydayness of modern life, Kobayashi Hideo insisted on emotion and memory as a means of investing the everyday with meaning.30...
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Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday Practices: Feminism, Materiality, Temporality

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Mary Desjardins
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 33–37.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2005-003
Published: 01 May 2006
.... A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday Practices: Feminism, Materiality, Temporality Mary Desjardins My first exposure to Camera Obscura was in 1979 or 1980, while I was a master’s student in comparative literature at the University...
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Beyond Indiewood: The Everyday Ethics of Nicole Holofcener

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Claire Perkins
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 137–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2408543
Published: 01 May 2014
... a self-effacing, observational cinema that dwells in the time and ethos of the everyday. Examining the critical possibilities of her attention to ethics, everydayness, and female relationships is an important step in restoring the place of women's contributions and perspectives in the indie sphere...
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The Spectacularization of Everyday Life: Recycling Hollywood Stars and Fans In Early Television Variety Shows

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Denise Mann
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 47–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-1_16-47
Published: 01 January 1988
...Denise Mann Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Better Hom es and Gardens 30 (Feb. 1952 ), p. 154 The Martha Raye Show The Spectacularization of Everyday Life: Recycling Hollywood Stars and Fans in Early Television Variety Shows Denise Mann...
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Blog Ambition: Fashion, Feelings, and the Political Economy of the Digital Raced Body

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Minh-Ha T. Pham
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-013
Published: 01 May 2011
...Minh-Ha T. Pham This essay closely considers the political limits and possibilities of fashion-themed blogs. Specifically, the author examines the ways in which such blogs are everyday cultural sites that are framed by and can potentially reframe neoliberal relations of culture, technology...
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Small Effects from Big Causes: The Dialogic Documentary Practice of Natalie Bookchin

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Zoë Druick
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592466
Published: 01 September 2016
... speech, demonstrating the simultaneous insignificance and importance of the everyday. Her work therefore highlights the problematic of communicability that the excess of online textual expression presents while at the same time holding out the possibility that—through listening—engaged, dialogic...
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Schneemann Sounding: Embodied Sonic Systems

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Melissa Ragona
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 151–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052886
Published: 01 September 2021
... of everyday encounters with the excesses of conspicuous consumption, the inequalities of gendered relations, and the disturbing encounters with state-mandated violence against other cultures, in particular the US invasion of Vietnam. Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press...
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Archiving Feeling in Yvonne Rainer's Journeys from Berlin/1971

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Helena Shaskevich
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 133–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278628
Published: 01 May 2023
... realm of everyday traumas of women and queer subjects with the public space of political trauma and asserts the primacy of both within national histories. This essay further argues that the female revolutionaries who emerge within these charged touchpoints act as figures of queer possibility...
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Pandemic Stasis and Nonlinear Memory in Palestinian Short Films

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Luisa Gandolfo
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 165–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11207854
Published: 01 September 2024
...Luisa Gandolfo Abstract When the COVID-19 lockdown was introduced in Palestine-Israel in 2020, it changed how the everyday was negotiated, with stricter control on movement, access, and contact with family members. As the pandemic progressed, the lockdown restrictions layered over an existing...
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Surviving the Reset: Speedrunning Spyro , Trans Mundanity, and Playing in the Impasse

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Madison Schmalzer
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 149–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11365903
Published: 01 December 2024
...Madison Schmalzer Abstract This article explores the relationship between everyday life and play, focusing on the mundane play practices of speedrunning. Employing autoethnographic techniques, the author analyzes her own experiences speedrunning and transitioning as case studies, drawing out...
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Popular Narrative and Commercial Television

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John Fiske
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 132–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-2_23-132
Published: 01 May 1990
... of their viewers in practice, for others through imagination, a fracturing of the diegetic world. The self-conlained universe of classical realism is neither contained nor sufficient; the narrative crosses into the everyday world of the viewer and requires a connection with this world to complete...
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Regulating Mobility: Technology, Modernity, and Feature-Length Narrativity in Traffic in Souls

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Kristen Whissel
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-17-1_49-1
Published: 01 May 2002
... modernity’s transformation of everyday life.2 The link between early cinema and the proliferation of new technologies went beyond the moving pictures’ ability merely to represent changes in everyday life. Indeed, the effectiveness of such representations often turned on the cinema’s structural affinity...
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Audience Theory and Feminism: Property, Gender, and the Television Audience

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Thomas Streeter, Wendy Wahl
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 242–261.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11-12-3-1_33-34-242
Published: 01 May 1994
... theories of the audience between “institutional” approaches on the one hand and “everyday life” on the 0ther.l Our approach seeks to get beyond this dichotomization, to theorize the particular relations between institutions and everyday life charac- teristic...
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Veronica Clare and the New Film Noir Heroine

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Susan White
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 76–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11-12-3-1_33-34-76
Published: 01 May 1994
... on the one side by the ornamental, with its traditional connotations of effeminacy and decadence, and on the other, by the everyday, whose “prosiness” is rooted in the domestic sphere of social life presided over by women. . . . The detail does not occupy a conceptual space beyond the laws...
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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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Anjo-marí Gouws
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 60–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631559
Published: 01 December 2020
..., which serves to high- light the invisible female labor that haunts the larger tradition of the avant- garde. In particular, Robertson s accounts in the diary of the labor involved in everyday domestic life gain specific valence when considered in contradistinction to the work of the figure per- haps...
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Disregarding Romance and Refashioning Femininity: Getting Down and Dirty with the Designing Women

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Tara McPherson
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 102–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11-2_32-102
Published: 01 September 1993
... culture and everyday life, around their interests in femininity, and around their friendships. Unlike most tele- vision shows which feature women, this sitcom focuses on women’s 107 relationships to each other in a setting separated from the realms of domesticity and romance and, thus...
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Breathing in the Archives

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Amelie Hastie
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 181–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2006-024
Published: 01 May 2007
... names and describes. Watching the video is like looking at a family album with Anna Freud. Her father’s daughter, she alternates everyday details of a family with telling commentary on the everyday (the com- mentary itself seemingly mundane at times). Seeming to imitate a child who points...
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Interview with Paromita Vohra: Remaking the “Political” in Social Documentary

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Shweta Kishore
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 167–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3776901
Published: 01 May 2017
... in a moment of political crisis and continues to address national publics for the purposes of social transformation.2 Your films, however, are located in the realm of everyday practices; for instance, you focus on the food poli- tics within Mumbai housing societies in Cosmopolis and the gendered nature...
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Complexity and Contradiction in Mass-Culture Analysis: On Ien Ang's Watching Dallas (New York: Methuen, 1985)

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Dana Polan
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 191–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-1_16-191
Published: 01 January 1988
... that represent dramatic renditions and transformations of the values of everyday life. The goal of Ang's analysis becomes less a registering of contradictions than a drive to find a singular meaning all too often blurred by superficial contradictions. 194 The diversity of positions for the spectator...
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