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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 103–123.
Published: 01 May 2013
... collective Tiqqun (Semiotext[e], 2010). © 2013 by Camera Obscura 2013 Figure 1. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (dir. Alfred Hitchcock,
US, 1941)
The Bachelor’s Fantasy:
Autoimmunity in Theory
Alexander R. Galloway
A few years ago it was the schizophrenics, all those people walk-
ing...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 4. Gender reversal in Arabella's rape-revenge fantasy. I May Destroy You (HBO, 2020)
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in No Bodies Business: Trapdoor Tactics and the Art of Transgender Disappearance in A Fantastic Woman
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 8. In fantasy, Marina (Daniela Vega) struggles against the storm. A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2017)
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2010
... be that the film is substantially more open to the fluctuations and even deconstructions of the Oedipal relation, working through it while never, in fact, buttressing it. In noting that film texts provide (for) fantasy scenarios in which spectators are placed, however ambiguously, and through which they roam...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of New Yorker Films.
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In a Desert Somewhere between
Disney and Las Vegas: The Fantasy
of Interracial Harmony and
American Multiculturalism in
Percy Adlon’s...
View articletitled, In a Desert Somewhere between Disney and Las Vegas: The <span class="search-highlight">Fantasy</span> of Interracial Harmony and American Multiculturalism in Percy Adlon's Bagdad Cafe
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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 25–59.
Published: 01 December 2007
... of the female teen body by medical discourses. Her current project examines representations of adolescent spectatorship, fandom, and fantasy in postwar literature and teen films. Sissy Spacek as Holly Sargis in Badlands
(Courtesy Warner Bros/Photofest)
Coming of Age in the 1970s:
Revision, Fantasy...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and Suleiman manage to reconcile postcolonial and feminist commitments in visual terms. In particular, the article examines the directors' visual construction of space, division, and connection, which it argues can be interpreted as a codification of the paradigms of gender, desire, and fantasy present within...
View articletitled, Between a Postcolonial Nation and <span class="search-highlight">Fantasies</span> of the Feminine: The Contested Visions of Palestinian Cinema
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 215–234.
Published: 01 September 1985
...Lynn Spigel Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985 Detours in the Search For Tomorrow:
Tania Modleski’s Loving with a Engeance:
Mass-Prodgced Fantasies for Women
Lynn S’igel
Loving With a Vengeance’ is an attempt to locate a collective feminine
fantasy in ‘mass-produced...
View articletitled, Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced <span class="search-highlight">Fantasies</span> for Women
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 108–133.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Susan Felleman Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989
Fluid Fantasies: Splash and
Children of a Lesser God
Susan Fellernan
“Talk about beauty and the beast. . . she’s both”’
The representation of the feminine as Other has been a commonplace
focus...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 134–141.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Jane Weinstock Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar, 1988)
Out of Her Mind: Fantasies of the 26th
New York Film Festival
by Jane Weinstock
You could say it was the Year of the Other at the New...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Juliana Chang This essay explicates how Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) and Linda Low (Nancy Kwan), the Asian migrant and Asian American female leading characters in the film Flower Drum Song (dir. Henry Koster, US, 1961), oscillate between embodying the fantasies of American modernity and exposing...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 105–137.
Published: 01 September 2018
... dolls, IRENE to Apple’s Siri, it argues that media archaeology should have as one of its essential conditions feminist critique. Media archaeology would do well not to repress this critique, considering the no less gendered fantasy of a neutral thinking of objects stripped of desire, a fantasy likewise...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 133–161.
Published: 01 September 2019
...E. L. McCallum This essay argues that twenty-first-century melodrama films by female directors rework the core components of classic melodrama form—not only its timing, but also narrative form, agnition, and the underlying fantasy of union. While they retain a focus on objects and setting...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 41–59.
Published: 01 May 2021
... part of Varda's film corpus and of her feminist investigations of different subjectivities and desires, of the affective worlds of contemporary women and children. It takes shape in her tenderness for Jane Birkin, but also in light of her own clearer thinking about childhood, nostalgia, and fantasy...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 115–143.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... In both films, these images, the author argues, reveal cinema's fantasies of weightlessness and containment, ableist fantasies that are always steeped in the desire to preserve the spectator's imagined bodily integrity. But these metaphors also reveal cinema's ability to confound space and visibility...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
... in their adaptation of Truman Capote’s 1958 novella. The film de-queered the novella, erasing its fantasies of white/black miscegenation and funneling these racial and sexual anxieties onto the specter of Asianness. In place of Capote’s original vision, the film preoccupied itself with defining an aspirational, urban...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of contemporary pornography as compensatory fantasy, the article suggests that the actions of the working-class heroes of exploitation films symbolize revenge for powerless masses of the working class and underclass. It also argues that sex films, which started out as exclusively sexist and misogynistic...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 113–143.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of race and sexuality, as well as of formulating “queer of color” as a kind of critical modality. Much like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin functions, according to Sigmund Freud, as a cultural artifact prized in the form of an idealized beating fantasy by the Victorian (white) child, Imitation...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
... female auteur and to her provocative exploration of youthful sexual identity and fantasy, Koh's condensed-form queer interpretation circulates more productively as part of a burgeoning queer Asian cinema. Unlike New Queer Cinema, which was gradually co-opted by the mainstream as US independent filmmaking...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 175–185.
Published: 01 September 2016
... various appeals to concealment and partial visibility raise critical questions about surveillance logics, technologies, and practices and their appeals to fantasies of total seeing and knowing. This essay is organized into three parts, and each part places Harvey's countersurveillance works...
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