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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 169–177.
Published: 01 January 1988
...Andrew Ross Th e Mary Tyl er Mo ore Show
Book Reviews
All In The Family: On David Morley's Family
Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure
(London: Comedia, 1986); and Philip Simpson's
(editor), Parents Talking Television
(London: Comedia...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 91–117.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Foundation's 2018 documentary film The Girl and the Picture , featuring the well‐known Nanjing Massacre female survivor Xia Shuqin. It argues that the cinematic rendition of Xia's family stories serves as a piercing incision into Nanjing Massacre historical memories and weaves together the personal...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Tison Pugh Despite the progressive ambitions announced in its title, the sitcom Modern Family (ABC, 2009–) has been excoriated by many viewers for its purported conservatism and reactionary politics. In particular, the program’s treatment of homosexuality, evident in the story line of gay couple...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Douglas S. Ishii The “ Modern Family effect,” a reference to the ABC family sitcom that premiered in 2009, first emerged to describe the program’s ratings success and then shifted in meaning to discuss its seemingly bipartisan depiction of same-sex marriage. This convergence of television’s...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 189–215.
Published: 01 May 2002
... medicine and reproductive technology, and her essays have appeared in the journals Genders, English Literary History, Women's Studies , and Literature and Medicine . Jan de Bont directs Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in
Twister (1996).
A Blustery Day for a Baby:
Technologies of
Family Formation...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 77–107.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... In adoption, various vectors of familial and racial ideology meet: affirmative adoption narratives propose a family structure that does not insist on limited, and limiting, roles for women. To that end, I ask how a nonpathological depiction of adoption, in which the biological mother is not an object of scorn...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 158–184.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Amanda Howell Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Figure 1. Colleen comforts Hue San (China Beach, "Independence Day"
25 October 1989).
Reproducing the Past: Popular History and
Family Melodrama on China Beach...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 203–225.
Published: 01 January 1988
... Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Da llas
The Danny Thomas Show
My Friend Irma
Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and
Serial Drama, 1946-1970
UCLA Film and Television Archive: Dan Einstein and Nina Leibman...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 1988
...George Lipsitz Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Mama
The Goldbergs
The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and
Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs
George Lipsitz
Almost every Friday night between 1949 and 1956...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 86–107.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Sasha Torres Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989
Melodrama, Masculinity and the Family:
thirtysomething as Therapy
Sasha Torres
I. Genre and Gender
In an interview with The New York Times, Edward Zwick, one of the
producers and creators of ABC’s...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 37–67.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Julianne Pidduck This article explores Stephen Daldry's The Hours (US/UK, 2002) as a feminist and queer meditation on the dilemma of marriage. An important queer-authored crossover film in the tradition of the family melodrama and the woman's film, The Hours offers a considered return to the iconic...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Sam McBean Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel, Fun Home (2006), intricately weaves together the author's coming-out story with her family's history, particularly the story of her father's closeted queer sexuality and possible suicide. In its exploration of family history, queer desires...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 197–217.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of music and film, the collaborative process between the artists, and how their collaboration shape-shifted over time. Three early short films (1986–89) chart Sonia’s first appearances, leading to Chantal’s invitation to shape the music of Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family, and Philosophy (France/Belgium...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., by working-class women, feminists, and lesbian and gay activists. Eschewing recognition of such complexities, the narrative drive of the film relies on a temporal and spatial transition that places familial reconciliation in a postconflictual present and in a location far removed from the communal...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 99–111.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Maureen Turim Chantal Akerman’s 2004 art installation Marcher à côté de ses lacets dans un frigidaire vide ( Walking Next to One’s Shoelaces in an Empty Fridge ) explores Akerman’s multigenerational family history as Jewish survivors of the Shoah. The installation is spatially configured so...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2019
... York or from hotel rooms around the world. In these purposefully dedramatized spaces “nothing happens”— nothing, that is, but a series of profound and moving encounters between Akerman and her mother, Natalia (Nelly), a survivor of Auschwitz whose family was murdered in the Holocaust. Bracha Ettinger’s...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 97–125.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Lee Wallace Lisa Cholodenko’s three films High Art (US, 1998), Laurel Canyon (US, 2002), and The Kids Are All Right (US, 2010) all tell the same story: a sexual and emotional ingenue arrives in a tightly circumscribed social world that both resembles and departs from a conventional family. At its...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 31–61.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and the private sphere of the home. These newly blurred boundaries had profound implications for postwar conceptions of gender, home, and family. Through both form and content, programs as wide-ranging as the science-fiction anthology The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959–64) and domestic sitcoms The George Burns...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 132–141.
Published: 01 December 2020
... began to purposely catalogue such materials. Across projects, she has engaged questions of beauty, citizenship, Black culture, and family history from the nineteenth century to the present by closely examining the camera practices of legendary photographers and the cultural contexts surrounding iconic...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2022
... family and community in Williamsburg, New York, and flees to Berlin presents culturally determined themes of victimhood, oppression, and gendered subjugation. A comparison with Turkish German films, such as 40 Square Meters of Germany ( 40 Quadratmeter Deutschland , dir. Tevfik Başer, West Germany, 1986...
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