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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 167–177.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and their practices. She is a lecturer at RMIT University, Vietnam, in the Centre for Communication and Design. © 2017 by Camera Obscura 2017 feminist Indian documentary Paromita Vohra Indian documentary film feminist filmmakers documentary filmmaking Figure 1. A satirical advertisement from...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 119–143.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to be a subject in film and television markets, but I limit my analysis to the BBC's commissioned documentary film India's Daughter to look specifically at the depiction of rape in documentary cinema. While I critique many aspects of the film, I do not support the ongoing ban of the film by the Indian...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
Published: 01 December 2020
... by an unknown hand; the word on it reads, Figure 5. Sheba Chhachhi, Satyarani, Anti- Dowry Demonstration, Delhi, 1981. Gelatin silver print, 20 × 30 in. Courtesy of the artist 14 Camera Obscura Indian. Other faces are visible within the image, and more arms are raised in protest behind her...
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 112–147.
Published: 01 September 1985
... (in this instance, a
map of Southeast Asia, where the adult Marta would fuel other kinds of
fantasies). Marta later narrates her fantasy of ‘ ‘becoming’’ an Indian
woman-an Indian wife-through a longed-for marriage with her
Calcuttan lover. Photographed trying on her...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
Published: 01 December 2009
... the constraints
of tradition on desire in an extended Indian family. As Mehta con-
ceived it, the story could not take place in Canada, and setting the
production in India, which she did, disqualified her for Canadian
government-supported financing. The film no longer qualified as a
Canadian film, even...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
...:
Second-Wave Feminist Video Collectives in Canada • 15
I was driving downtown, and I heard on the radio that a hundred
Aboriginal women were occupying the Department of Indian Affairs
[DIA]. I turned the car around and went over there [to the DIA]. I
was up there with two kids and no equipment...
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 136–143.
Published: 01 May 1981
... for either positive or negative images which are
then either taken up or rejected by feminist critics. Another paper on
this panel on “Native American Women in the Western,” by Maryann
Oshana, reiterates this position. Oshana’s thesis, that the Western
presents a degraded image of Indian women...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 134–141.
Published: 01 January 1989
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(Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum), a Taiwanese tale of Americanization
(Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Daughter of the Nile), a South African coming-
of-political-age film (Oliver Schmitz’s Mapantsula), and an Indian
street life story (Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay This year I saw a
number of European films which...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 4–33.
Published: 01 September 1996
..., and Ethnographic
Spectacle (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996), 8.
13. Rony 71.
14. See Parama Roy, Indian Traffic (Berkeley: U of California P, 1998);
Nalini Natarajan, "Women, Nation, and Narration in Midnight's Chil-
dren," in Grewal and Kaplan, Scattered Hegemonies...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 202–204.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1999.
Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, and Paul Willeman, eds. Encyclopedia of Indian
Cinema. Rev. ed. London: British Film Institute, 1999.
Sandoval-Sanchez, Alberto, and Nancy Saporta Sternbach...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
Published: 01 December 2011
... on film.6 Others may find that the critique I make here
is not radical enough — the Born into Brothels project has incited
angered responses from both Indian activists and feminist crit-
ics abroad for ignoring local organizing efforts and for Briski’s
alleged breach of ethical...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 145–151.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Make Movies release) — and
opening-night film Water (Canada/India, 2005) — Deepa Mehta’s
highly anticipated depiction of the historical treatment of Indian
widows, whose early production had been shut down by Hindu
fundamentalists. All three feminist works...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 77–105.
Published: 01 December 2023
... regard for Indigenous bodies, histories, or environment. 62 Smith sees this as one version of the romanticized trope of the “vanishing Indian,” following Michelle Raheja (Seneca), who identifies this trope of Indigeneity as a haunting presence, a nostalgic or threatening background, instead of a live...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Remembers When the World Broke Open ,” Jump Cut , no. 60 (2021): 1, http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc60.2021/Molloy-IndigenousFilms/index.html . 43. Channette Romero, “Toward an Indigenous Feminine Animation Aesthetic,” Studies in American Indian Literatures 29, no. 1 (2017): 68. 44...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 336–372.
Published: 01 December 1989
... Fiction, Female Sexuality and
Class.” Feminist Review 16 (1984):7-25.
Lipsitz, George. “Mardi Gras Indians: Carnival and Counter-Narrative in
Black New Orleans.” Cultural Critique 10 (1988a): 99-121.
-. “The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class and Ethnicity in Early
Network Television...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
Published: 01 May 2022
... theorizes affective labor's extractive logic when she observes that the technological conversion of Indian call center workers into their “data double” for the purposes of remotely performing service work entails the production of drained subjectivities. 5 Such arguments emphasize the inequalities...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2011
...-mad Jess is 18, smart, beautiful and
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can bend a ball better than any boy she knows. She’s set her heart
on playing for a top women’s footie team, but there’s one prob
lem: her strict parents want her to settle down with a nice Indian
boy and learn to cook!”12 Much...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 84–117.
Published: 01 September 1995
...
circumcision is one of the most problematic and often hotly contended
first worldhhird world issues today. In 1993, African American writer
Alice Walker and Indian director Pratibha Parmar made a film about
female circumcision entitled Warrior Marks. In the book they wrote...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2017
... much in common stylistically with the domestic narra-
tive cinema of the time, which was mostly derivative of Hollywood
Camera Obscura 94, Volume 32, Number 1
doi 10.1215/02705346-3661982 © 2017 by Camera Obscura
Published by Duke University Press
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 124–160.
Published: 01 September 1993
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murder of a young female Anglo-Indian. The Anglo-Indian narrator of
Parmar’s tape voices the televisual fear that generalized lament, the
British working-through of universal mourning, may dull the interior-
ized shine of her complex cultural hybridity. Speaking over images...
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