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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 1–43.
Published: 01 May 2000
... the cultural logic of purity and feminist studies of the body in the contemporary literature and cinema of exile. CO 43-1, 1-43 6/6/00 2:47 PM Page 1 Cinematic Exile: Performing the Foreign Body on Screen in Roman Polanski’s The Tenant...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Irene Gedalof Where do spaces of the home figure in contemporary studies of transnational, migrant, and diasporic cinema? According to Hamid Naficy, “accented,” exilic, and diasporic cinema primarily evokes a state of “permanent deterritorialization,” producing cinematic languages of discontinuity...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 145–149.
Published: 01 September 2021
... kitchen in 1972, during a period in which the artist was living in voluntary exile. She published a performance score for the piece in her artist's book Parts of a Body House (1972) and reprinted it in Cezanne She Was a Great Painter (1974–75). This essay reads Americana I Ching Apple Pie as an unruly...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 129–167.
Published: 01 December 2007
... supposedly exiled during Stalin’s reign. Needless to say, the flm was made pseudonymically. The presence of Antinov ostensibly authenticates the production, yet even in the notes on the video jacket, the legerdemain is made apparent, undermining the very notion of, or the need...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2012
... to the discursive construction of travel (citing a num- ber of writers, popular and academic, on categories such as tourist and exile), the Xin Lu series extends the interrogation of language and translation introduced in Ma’s Toc Storee and Slanted Vision (US, These videos suggest that language sets up...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 93–121.
Published: 01 May 2016
... forms of identity and, as Braidotti puts it, “inter- relatedness” become most empowering in this context. While taking care to distinguish the nomad from the migrant and the exile, Braidotti situates herself as a polyglot migrant turned nomad, drawing on her Italo-­Australo-­Franco...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 181–185.
Published: 01 May 2007
... as significant. And what is important is not only the reason why they left — to escape Nazi persecution — but also some of the initial, everyday effects this exile had on the family. Most important, from the vantage point of these home movies, was the (temporary) loss of Freud’s dog, Lun, who had...
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 6–41.
Published: 01 December 1980
... who are explicitly part of ths off-screen story: the mad beggarwoman, who is heard but never seen; and the Vice Consul, who is both seen and heard, but remains in social and diplomatic exile. The three-part composition of the film traces a story which is always already hstory...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2017
... opening when the male voice-­over states, “What you are about to see is a vision of ugliness.” This is an acknowledgment of the historical treatment of the leper body: it was met with fear and repulsion — responses that resulted in the condemnation of lep- rosy to a state of exile, the colony...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 151.
Published: 01 September 1996
..., and Exile is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Grant Farred teaches in the English Department at Williams College. He is editor of Rethinking C.L.R. James (Blackwell, 1996) and author of Midfielder's Moment: Essays on Politics and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (forthcoming Westview Press...
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 161–162.
Published: 01 September 1999
... of Literature Part Four: Challenging the Mainstream. U of Manitoba, 1998. Public Enemies and Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil by Jonathan Munby. U of Chicago P, 1999. Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place edited by Hamid Naficy. American...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 41–69.
Published: 01 December 2003
... such as Jamelie Hassan, could have been produced only in exile. University art departments are beginning to train artists in contemporary international forms. At the College of Fine Art in Alexandria, two women painters have also worked in video installa- tion.8 Hadel Nazmy, who studied at Alexandria...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 149–151.
Published: 01 May 1993
... Encounters in the Americas edited by John King, Ana M. Lopez, Manuel Alvarado. Indiana University Press, 1993. $21.95. The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles by Hamid Naficy. University of Minnesota Press, 1993. The Matter of Images...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2008
... in Suleiman’s own lengthy periods of exile in New York). Indeed, as Irit Neidhardt has noted, Palestine’s lack of autonomy and of resources has meant a frequent reliance on international funding, particularly for the more idiosyncratic visions of its auteurs. While this situation has...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 33–59.
Published: 01 December 2021
... differently the past, a past that in many cases is marked by pain and violence. Queers have a very justified “fear of going home, and of not being taken in” (42). The condition of la mestiza queer is that of an exile; loquería for queers is thus a form of return for those who were exiled. Similarly...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 160–164.
Published: 01 May 2008
... limitations of a particular film. Jane, I sorely missed you during the self-imposed exile of the Ted Turner marriage. Then, after a decade’s absence, you sud- denly returned, passionately discussing acting in Searching for Debra Winger (dir. Rosanna Arquette, US, 2002). Although you were simply...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 93–127.
Published: 01 May 2017
... to Arletty. As Léonie Bathiat, a personne physique, she faced legal judgment resulting in her exile from Paris — a sentence in which we should recognize her temporary civil death — while Arletty, the monstre sacré, the superstar, of stage and screen, encountered an entirely different standard...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 81–109.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of loss and exclusion within the Yolngu world as a consequence of his career as an actor. These costs include separation from his family, addiction to drugs and alcohol, jail sentences for crime related to addiction, and punishment for breaking traditional laws resulting in periods of exile...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 93–123.
Published: 01 September 2003
... Maria Margaroni Matricide and Postcolonial Melancholia In Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie argues that for con- temporary global citizens, “of all the many elephant traps lying ahead . . . the largest and most dangerous” one is “that form of internal exile which in South Africa...
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 30–49.
Published: 01 September 1999
... past, which is at once idealized and resented. These latter works include not only those films about diasporas, exiles, and emigration to the West, and about "home" visits to China, but also those films in which a particular form of traditional art (such as Beijing or Cantonese opera) is being...