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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 6–35.
Published: 01 December 1986
... the signified of the “past.” Its familiar identity and family
resemblance are produced as visible traces of the past’s presence in the
present, and ensure the past’s presence in a future safely contained and
constrained by tradition and history. At best, it will carry the father’s
name forward...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 41–74.
Published: 01 September 1993
...Sharon Willis Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 The Fathers Watch The Boys’ Room
Sharon Willis
The Boys’ Room
Quentin Tarantino’s characters spend a lot of time in the bathroom,
and because they do, the bathroom acquires a certain centrality...
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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 (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 69–98.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of adolescence and expose the mismatch as a zone of liminality that can be confined to neither the diegesis nor the father. The instability of Durbin's voice is exemplified by the two halves of her cinematic oeuvre. Prior to US entry into the Second World War, Universal presented Deanna Durbin as a young...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of ambivalence on terms of sexual difference, especially for father figures perceived as models of artistic expressivity, and the mothering body as a body of prohibition, labor, illness, and death. Examining the negation of the body, the role of aggression and violence, and the critique of the bind of “male...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 61–89.
Published: 01 May 2022
... ( Banshun , Japan, 1949), the film's narrative premise traces the strong bond between a widower and his adult daughter. Most critical assessments of the film thus interpret 35 Shots of Rum as an homage to Ozu, seeing the daughter's love for her father as a reflection of Denis's devotion to the Japanese...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2. Teen Theo after revealing to her stepfather that she lied about being molested by her biological father. I May Destroy You (HBO, 2020)
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in Toward a Feminist Fourth Cinema: Waru (2017)
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 3. In a segment directed by Renae Maihi, the camera and thus Waru's wairua come to a rest, as Waru is reconnected to his father's grandmother and his own young mother, who sit side by side and grieve his loss. Waru (2017)
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 39–67.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Invisible (Intellect, 2012). © 2012 by Camera Obscura 2012 Figure . Bad Father. Invaders from Mars
(dir. William Cameron Menzies, US,
On Film Studies
and the Unconscious
Chris Dumas
I always had the impression, when I was very small, that my
father was two people, one good...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 199–225.
Published: 01 May 1997
...
structures that attend them. That fantasmatic figure can apply so
much control, I will argue, precisely because of his fictitiousness, but
unlike the fictional father that Sigmund Freud theorized in Totem and
Taboo, this patriarchal figure exerts economic and other forms...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 113–149.
Published: 01 May 2004
... Beauty (US, 1999) explicitly affirms the
importance of upholding the prohibition against incest. In his
DVD commentary on the film, Mendes himself sees his work as
the tale of a man, Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), who becomes
“a father again” by foregoing the chance to capitalize on his fan-
tasy...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 101–124.
Published: 01 September 1991
... the relationship between political economics and
gender. Adams seems to concur with Silverman when she says that
what the male masochist does is to “defy castration and disavow sexual
difference” in his perversion “grounded in his refusal of the symbolic
father and in his...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 25–59.
Published: 01 December 2007
..., and Rage
in the Teen-Girl Badlands
Barbara Jane Brickman
Partway through Terrence Malick’s Badlands (US, 1973), the teen-
age narrator of the film, Holly (Sissy Spacek), enters into a kind
of daydream, triggered by images in her father’s stereopticon and
advanced by her voice-over. From...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 68–81.
Published: 01 May 1988
.... The enormously popular French film, Three Men
and a Cradle, and the American remake, Three Men and a Baby, which
are about an infant named Mary who is left on the doorstep of the
infant’s father and his two male housemates, are interesting manifes-
tations of the concern about father’s rights that has...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 112–137.
Published: 01 May 1992
... to the formation of group identity,
Sigmund Freud postulated along with Charles Darwin and Robertson
Smith a primogenital crime responsible for virtually all subsequent
social organization. Freud’s myth of the primal horde and of the
murder of the father by a band of brothers...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 30–67.
Published: 01 May 1988
... Chasseguet-Smirgel-
a book which consistently comes down on the side of the father,
“mature” sexuality, and a well-fortified ego-that seems best to intuit
the challenge that perversion poses to the symbolic order. She cautions
that “the pervert is trying to free himself from the paternal universe...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 6–30.
Published: 01 January 1996
... Residing in a complex inhabited by many recog-
nizable examples of modern social alienation-Laura, a bored and
lonely housewife in love with her dead father; Vanessa, a transvestite;
Carlos, an apparently straight man who dreams of a boy he used to
love; two elderly alcoholic sisters living...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 6–29.
Published: 01 May 1988
... describes as one of fellatio. The two people whose love
affair occupied her mind so incessantly are Dora’s father and his lover
Frau K. Through hysterical identification Dora takes up Frau K’s sexual
This essay will be appearing in Psychoanalysis and Culture, ed. James Donald
(London: Macmillan...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 108–143.
Published: 01 September 2006
... terms.
This is the logic of the final moments in Tykwer’s first fea-
ture film, Deadly Maria (Die Tödliche Maria, Germany, 1993): the
almost autistic Maria (Nina Petri), a domestic servant of sorts to
her husband (Péter Franke) and her father ( Josef Bierbichler),
consciously allows...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 181–185.
Published: 01 May 2007
...
Freud — display an intimacy, either despite the genre or because of
it, and they invite an affective engagement with Freud’s personal
history. This affective presence and possibility derives in part from
the fact that the “father” (of Anna, of psychoanalysis) is in front of
the camera rather...
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