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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 37–65.
Published: 01 May 2009
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 149–183.
Published: 01 September 2014
... 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...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 55–87.
Published: 01 September 2015
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 88–115.
Published: 01 December 2020
... 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...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2001
...
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...
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in Toward a Feminist Fourth Cinema: Waru (2017)
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 2. In a segment directed by Ainsley Gardiner, Mihi's neighbor's face is briefly embellished with hand-drawn puffs of smoke, suggesting that Mihi's experience of reality cannot be limited to the ontology of the photographic image. Waru (2017)
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 105–139.
Published: 01 September 2004
... 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...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of the representational logic that inheres Pose 's historiographic intervention, the article uses the show's range of historical representations as a starting point for thinking through what it means to face death and choose life amid conditions of extraordinary violence. [email protected] Copyright ©...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 232–239.
Published: 01 May 1992
... for Patients
Facing Difficult Choices
Joe Henderson, MD, Eric Baumgartner,
Scott Chesnut, Brian Driscoll, Anne Henderson,
Linda Hurd
There are several concepts of what multimedia is or can be. Some think
it need be no more than simple, computer-based “slide” presentations
with some added...
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in Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 2. Barbara stretching and flexing, wearing a stripy sweater, facing a computer monitor and keyboard. “Oracle: Year One; Born of Hope,” The Batman Chronicles , no. 5 (Summer 1996), 9. Scan provided by the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection at Michigan State University
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in She Listened: Vardian Self-Portraiture and Auto-Refrains of Sea, Wind, and Sand
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 1. Becoming-imperceptible: Visages Villages ( Faces Places , dir. Agnès Varda and JR, France, 2017) and Varda by Agnès ( Varda par Agnès , dir. Agnès Varda, France, 2019)
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in From Cannes to Cardboard: The Circulation and Promotion of Visages Villages and the Auteur on Instagram
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 11. Instagram photo of Varda's Independent Spirit Award for Visages Villages ( Faces Places , France, 2018)
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 155–165.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 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...
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in The Reserve Army of Affectivity: Unemployed Labor in William Greaves's Psychodramatic Cinéma Vérité
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. The title of In the Company of Men (dir. William Greaves, US, 1969) appears over the frozen face of Charles Darby. Image courtesy of Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
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in Revisiting Queer and Trans Representation in Junior
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2. Nightmare sequence in which Dr. Alex Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is shocked to find his exact likeness on his newborn's face. Junior (dir. Ivan Reitman, US, 1994)
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 10. Cast and technicians for Snows (1967). James Tenney, Peter Watts, James Carroll (with glasses), Phoebe Neville (center rear), Tyrone Mitchell (standing with arms crossed), Carolee Schneemann, and Shigeko Kubota (facing left). Photographer unknown
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
... 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...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., 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...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 173–181.
Published: 01 September 2010
... 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. Camera Obscura 2010 Rosa-Linda Fregoso is a professor and former chair of Latin American and Latino studies...
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