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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2008
... to explore and realign the long-contested relationships between nationalism and feminism and between individual and communal agency. Despite this possibility, the article finally posits that while Khleifi's and Suleiman's films both construct transgressive models of femininity, the possibility of aligning...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... The female protagonists in these films are, accordingly, associated with Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection (in particular, the construction of the maternal figure as abject through the imagery of parturition and the primal scene) and depicted in various guises as the monstrous-feminine, a potent source...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 65–91.
Published: 01 December 2014
... but deliberately decentering sensory saturation as a novel and poignant cinematic enactment of feminine difference. Fruit 's vivid multidimensional expressive modality, we posit, provides a curiously fecund opening beyond the margins of the conventional symbolic order, pursuing through its feminine-feminist...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 77–111.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Jessica Brent The Lodger (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, UK, 1926)
Beyond the Gaze: Visual
Fascination and the Feminine
Image in Silent Hitchcock
Jessica Brent
Are not the traits which I indicated (the make-up, the
whiteness, the wig, etc.) just like the blunting of a meaning too
clear...
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 135–150.
Published: 01 May 1979
...Jacquelyn Suter Feminine Discourse in Christopher Strong
Jacquelyn Suter
Feminine discourse :What is it? Who speaks it? How is it spoken? First,
by discourse, I shall mean an ideological position from which a subject
“speaks” (actshnteracts) within the social order. Delineating para...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 29–55.
Published: 01 May 2018
... manifest as unreadable noise, interventions on the print page that produce a technological feminine. Situated alongside ANT (actor-network theory), media theory, and cyborg feminism, the technological feminine gestures at the limits of these attempts to de–black box media, insisting on an irreducible noise...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 157–167.
Published: 01 December 2019
... showrunner Prentice Penny was a Girlfriends staff writer. Finally, Dee s allusion nods to the cultural significance of the theme song and recording artist Angie Stone for black women. Opening Statements: Theme Singing and Shifting Paradigms for Voicing Feminine Subjectivities as Television Music Alyxandra...
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in Gift or Weapon? Reproductive Decision, the Phenomenology of Pregnancy, and Alien Language in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 4. “ Écriture féminine ” in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival (US, 2016).
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 102–131.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Pamela Wilson Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Upscale Feminine Angst:
Molly Dodd, the Lifetime Cable Network
and Gender Marketing
Pamela Wilson
The narrative in the trade press about the TV series The Days and
Nights...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 42–75.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Eithne Johnson Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 Theresa Saldana in Confessions of Crime.
Lifetime’s Feminine Psychographic Space and
the “Mystery Loves Company” Series
Eitbne Johnson
Since its debut in 1984, Lifetime Television has been carving a niche...
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 148–157.
Published: 01 September 1985
...Jane Weinstock
No Essential Femininity: A Conversation between
Mary Kelly and Paul Smith
Introduction
Mary Kelly, an American living in London, resists definition. An artist, a
teacher, a curator, a writer, and a filmmaker, a socialist and a feminist, she
inhabits...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 115–147.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to the man an image of his superiority/ desirability (the monsters do not desire; they use men for their own evil or animal purposes). But it is easy to see which figure in this eternal-feminine trio represents the truth. Though Giovanni is made mute by the witch and keeps stumbling in his conversations...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Maya Sidhu Abstract This article demonstrates how the interwar French suffragist organization la Femme nouvelle used the platform of the newsreel to make political claims through its collaboration with Pathé’s newsreel magazine Actualités féminines or Women's News . Through the filming...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 41–69.
Published: 01 September 2024
... with regret, this article argues that both normative femininity and feminist perspectives are key sites where notions of “success” and “failure” are negotiated and where the risks for making the “wrong decision” as a postfeminist subject are highest. Through exploring femininity, individualism...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 102–123.
Published: 01 September 1993
...Tara McPherson Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993
Disregarding Romance and
Refashioning Femininity:
Getting Down and Dirty with
the Designing Women‘
Tara McPherson
Female communities are united by their necessary...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 165–195.
Published: 01 May 2023
... shared image of a young woman holding a sign with the phrase at a rally in Texas, I discuss the communal charge of what I call tough girl affect—a politically saturated vibe, touting a notably youthful, right-wing femininity that is deliberately feisty, fun, and provocative, yet compliant with the hetero...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Melissa Phruksachart This article studies Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) to examine the constitutive role Mickey Rooney’s yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi plays in shoring up the infamous brand of white femininity embodied by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Heidi Brevik-Zender Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette (US, 2006) is about fashion and the construction of feminine identity — but not those of ancien-régime France. Rather, it is a modern consideration of contemporary sartorial networks that reflects an ironic twenty-first-century attitude...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 117–147.
Published: 01 December 2014
... contemporary sociocultural notions about marriage, which receives its most charged expression in the film's figuration of femininity (the femme fatale) and homosexuality (the queer “commie”). Just as Diego Rivera's painting The Flower Carrier (1935) illustrates the ideological ambiguity of The Woman on Pier 13...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the femininity of the brand according to masculine values and cultures. The femininity of the thirty-year-old series is placed in historical and theoretical context, illustrating parallels between current and earlier incarnations of the franchise and its continuities with other women-centered popular media...
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