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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 4. Agnès Varda, Ma cabane de l’échec ( My Shack of Failure , 2006) renamed in 2009 as Une cabane de cinéma ( A Cinema Shack ). © succession varda
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Slips, Breaks, and Tangles: Creative Collaboration and the Aesthetic Process of Trans-Subjectivity
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to confront. The questions that this article pose are: How does one attend to the needs of the individual alongside the challenges set forth by the group without the requirement to balance failure and breakdown against success and coherence? What processes might facilitate this balance? From within...
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Regretting Nothing, or Regretting Everything? Postfeminism, Femininity, and Regret in Miss Austen Regrets
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 41–69.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and tensions that underpin this cultural context and explores how the expression or experience of regret is treated as proof of women's failures of subjectivity and decision-making. Through examining three of the main characters — Jane Austen, Cassandra Austen, and Fanny Austen Knight — and their interactions...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Jackie Stacey Sally Potter’s film Yes (UK/US, 2004) stages the political possibilities of cosmopolitanism through the aesthetics of a heterosexual love story whose failures reveal the limit points of such a vision. Read psychoanalytically, cosmopolitan aspirations share with love an idealizing...
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Sense and Subjectivity
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... address knowledge production, authorship, witnessing, and representation. The film manipulates the trope of blindness as a means to see what cannot be seen, to picture unrepresentable horrors found at the point of memory's failure. Second, I argue that this film uses blindness both to narrate histories...
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Putting Things to the Test: Reconsidering Portrait of Jason
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2011
... the film's critical test of realism — both cinematic and identitarian. This essay argues that failure to achieve recognition under the normative presumptions that underlie our understanding of formations of both nonfiction and race/sexuality is arguably the source of the film's most productive tension...
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The Wages of Affluence: The High-Rise Housewife in Japanese Sex Films
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Anne McKnight This essay considers how ideas about liberation flourished in Japanese sex films in the 1970s by exploring the genre of the housewife film as it traverses industrial contexts. Liberation was abandoned by melancholic male intellectuals after the 1970 failure to halt Japan's military...
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Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai?/What Is behind the Stardom? Madhuri Dixit, the Production Number, and the Construction of the Female Star Text in 1990s Hindi Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 129–159.
Published: 01 December 2015
... cinema deployed in its attempt to manage a new and potentially dangerous circulation of the heroine's body. By highlighting these strategies' frequent failure to contain Dixit's flamboyantly dancing body, this article posits that the dancer-actress engenders a distinctive mode of performance...
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Collective Writing Projects Online and the Challenges of the Promise Economy
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 65–97.
Published: 01 December 2016
... writing initiatives and the failures and disappointments experienced in such projects, which can be seen as participating in a promise economy. “Promise economy” refers to a cultural economy that is based, or dependent, on certain promises that are inscribed in collaborative cultural practices...
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Framing Black Performance: Selma and the Poetics of Representation
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 37–61.
Published: 01 September 2020
... powerfully on the limitations of cinematic and historical discourses to speak about the black femme as a political subject. Analysis of Selma exposes the key problems of reception and criticism facing contemporary African American film. The film speaks to the failure of de jure representational regimes...
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Archiving Feeling in Yvonne Rainer's Journeys from Berlin/1971
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 133–163.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... Their explicit and often spectacular refusals and failures — of the liberatory promises of bourgeois motherhood on the one hand, and political activism on the other — deny any possibility of a reparative fantasy within the film. Made during a period of significant aesthetic and personal change in Rainer's life...
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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
... of repetitious drudgery that inevitably ends in failure. Close readings of Robertson’s engagement with diet and exercise are considered within the larger genealogy of women presenting their bodies for measurement in second-wave feminist art. This form of gendered labor is in stark contrast to the second...
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The Leftovers of Conspiracy: The Deformed Gazes of Under the Silver Lake
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 118–145.
Published: 01 May 2025
..., constantly relegated to the film's background both literally and metaphorically, are never handled with enough sophistication in the film, forcing the viewer into the disturbing position of reproducing the conspiracy theorist's gaze. The article thus critiques the film's failure to adequately move beyond...
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Joan Copjec
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 121–127.
Published: 01 December 1989
... to the question of female spectatorship
and the importance to it of the proposition “The Woman does not
exist.” I have space to outline only two of the most salient points.
1) What this proposition remarks, above all, is an inevitable failure,
specifically, the failure of the sexual relation. It has...
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Affects of the Gaze: Post-Oedipal Desire and the Traversal of Fantasy in Blade Runner
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2010
... understood as a punctum — is the failure of the Symbolic,
but this can be neither explained nor suggested (namely, symboli-
cally) through the development of a narrative.27 It can be affected,
given body to, traversed, but not comprehended. From this (lack
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“You're my friend”: River's Edge and Social Spectatorship
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 250–273.
Published: 01 September 1991
... anything about it. I went home and ~artiedBut
it was primarily the students’ “silence,” their failure to report the
murder to the police-to say the right thing to the right people at the
right time-that gave rise to anxiety about what had gone wrong with
the kids in Milpitas...
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Paralysis in Motion: Jerry Lewis's Life as a Man
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 194–205.
Published: 01 May 1988
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herence of the subject, and in a manner which specifically invokes the
position of the nineteenth-century female hysteric. The failure of Anna
0. to comprehend her native German while suffering her hysterical
symptoms has been described as a “disruptive polylingualism...
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Everything Is Wiped Away: Queer Temporality in Queers in Love at the End of the World
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 185–192.
Published: 01 September 2017
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and try again after learning the exact details of failure. Satisfac-
tion, whether positive in the triumph of winning or negative in the
form of failure or losing, is a resolution of anxiety. This is achieved
by following a player’s choices or actions to their end within the
scope of the game’s...
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Is Film Theory Queer Theory? Or, Everything I Know about Queerness I Learned at the Movies
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2013
... as a privileged archive in queer
theoretical inquiry. For example, in The Queer Art of Failure, Judith
Halberstam asserts: “My archive is not labor history or subaltern
movements. Instead, I want to look for low theory and counter-
knowledge in the realm of popular culture and in relation to queer
lives...
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 233–237.
Published: 01 May 1979
... of their failure to come to terms with the relationship between the
“theoretical and political priority given to the concept of class” in
Marxist theory, and the fact that “the problem of women cuts across
class divisions.” Therefore, MIF calls for a reformulation of the relevant
theories within Marxism...
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