... It at Face Value Jayne Wark Martha Wilson is an American who began to work as an artist in the early 1970s in Halifax, Canada, where she was affiliated with the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). In her con...

...Jennifer González Contemporary digital artists have been exploring the function of the face and its relation to public space for several decades. This essay offers a close reading of artworks by Keith Piper, Nancy Burson, Keith Obadike, and the collective Mongrel that address the relation between...

... in the film, which is itself precisely structured as a palindromic procession into and back through a series of mirrored spaces. Faces become more prominent in the film's second half, tasked less to reveal character than to convey graphic, affective, and historical tensions pertinent to the film's spatial...

...Vincent Hausmann This essay focuses on George Cukor's A Woman's Face (US, 1941), a film that complicates a dominant narrative in studies of Joan Crawford's work that locates Mildred Pierce (dir. Michael Curtiz, US, 1945) as inaugurating the star's pronounced, albeit disparaged, iterations...

... media users’ unpaid digital labor—creating, sharing, and responding to content—sustains the platforms that extract their data as “surplus value.” It further draws on sociologist Erving Goffman’s account of “face-work” in order to clarify the way in which a person’s digital identity is produced...

... Lyndon ” will appear in Kubrick in Perspective , a forthcoming collection from Cambridge University Press. Free Indirect Affect in Cassavetes’ Opening Night and Faces Homay King How to make the affect echo? —Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes...

... areas represent cancer cells. From Breast Cancer: Adjuvant Therapy, Dartmouth Interactive Media Laboratory’s Shared Decision-making Program ( 1992). Graphic by Scott Chesnut. Camera Inforrnatica: Producing Interactive Media Programs for Patients Facing Difficult Choices...

...Anna E. Ward As faces become ubiquitous on the Web through social networking sites and YouTube, it is perhaps no surprise that an adult, subscription-based Web site has emerged seeking to capitalize on investing faces with sexual meaning. This article engages in a close examination of the Web site...

... a discussion of his Facial Weaponization Suite (2011–14), a series of biometric masks that ask who and what we make visible to technology. Looking to the face as a critical site for negotiated visibility, Blas and Gaboury draw on diverse traditions of concealment and performance to frame the contemporary...

... engages in collective media production from Inuit women's perspectives with an explicit focus on gender. Arnait's video art, animation, fiction features, television programs, and documentaries address issues faced by women struggling for the recognition of indigenous and minoritarian cultures. The success...

... Everybody Dies but Me ( Vse umrut, a ya ostanus , 2008); and sixty-part TV series School ( Shkola , Channel One Russia, 2010). These works deal with the issues that contemporary Russian youth face in such a confrontational manner that they have been the subject of a special debate in the Russian parliament...

..., regarding what we see as some of the most significant questions facing studies of reality television, especially the specific studies dealing with health, housewives, “hot bodies,” and “hoochie mamas” that are included in “Project Reality TV.” © 2015 by Camera Obscura 2015 This content is made freely...

... by the greater economic insecurity that middle-class women have been facing post–Great Recession but also by a variety social factors that generate feelings of immobilization and isolation. Abjection is often a principal sign of these characters' precarity—they inhabit spaces where they often recoil from others...

... and sustain hegemonic ideas and beliefs. But when faced with alternative values, practices, and worldviews, in this case gay sexuality, the melodramatic text turns “hysterical” in coping with the ideological excess. This essay's analysis of two instances of gay Chinese melodrama not only demonstrates...

..., these two products offer rich sites for exploring the particular challenges designers and marketers face in attracting female youth to media production. Grounding this study is Ellen van Oost's theory of “gender scripts,” the discourses of gender that designers encode into consumer goods based...

... of the challenges they faced in making the documentary, and the subsequent outreach campaign for raising awareness about social justice and human rights issues on the Mexico-US border. Carmen Durán and other factory workers display the products they assemble. From Maquilapolis, directed by Vicky Funari...