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Pretty: Film Theory, Aesthetics, and the History of the Troublesome Image

Rosalind Galt
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2009-001
Published: 01 September 2009
... qualities of countercinema. These practices draw on disparate value systems, but both reject decorative composition. Likewise, while feminist and queer theories have often valued spectacle and surface, a structuring iconophobia can still underwrite even radical accounts of representation. By tracing...
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Puppet Love: Documenting Ventriloquism in Nina Conti's Her Master's Voice

Sarah Kessler
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 61–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592576
Published: 01 September 2016
... with the sound of her voice—gives us a unique model for rethinking the pairings of film sound and image and documentary subject and object not as irrevocably divided but as operating alongside one another, albeit in an uneven and instable manner. Taking inspiration from feminist and queer theories...
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Collectivity: Part 2

the Camera Obscura collective
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 1–2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3661973
Published: 01 December 2016
... in various times and places. © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. collaboration media collective transnational media activism technology feminist and queer theory Collectivity: Part...
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Collectivity: Part 1

the Camera Obscura collective
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 1–2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454408
Published: 01 May 2016
... and places. © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. collaboration media collective transnational media activism technology feminist and queer theory Collectivity: Part 1...
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In Practice: Queerness and Games

Diana Pozo, Bonnie Ruberg, Chris Goetz
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3925167
Published: 01 September 2017
... with theoretical arguments and practices across independent and industry game design, queer video game theory and criticism, and queer game pedagogy. By introducing readers of Camera Obscura to QGCon and the emergent field of queer game studies, this introduction seeks to expand the relationship between feminist...
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The Times of The Hours : Queer Melodrama and the Dilemma of Marriage

Julianne Pidduck
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 37–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2016951
Published: 01 May 2013
... of marriage speaks to this broad social context, while its prominent queer and feminist references articulate long-standing feminist and queer debates about marriage and intimacy. Notably, same-­sex marriage has been widely debated in LGBT communities and in queer theory as a problematic...
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Performing Essentialism: Reassessing Barbara Hammer's Films of the 1970s

Greg Youmans
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727473
Published: 01 December 2012
... in her work in part to the “New Gender Politics” that have arisen since the s: “a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory” Performing Essentialism...
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The Archive, the Phallus, and the Future

Karen Beckman
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 186–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2006-025
Published: 01 May 2007
... at the very moment in her discussion that is of most importance to feminist and queer theory, the moment that delineates the mobility and transferability of the phallus (397). 4. Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York...
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Opacities: An Introduction

Zach Blas
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 149–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592499
Published: 01 September 2016
... as an expansive theory, politics, and aesthetics that works against the totalizing gaze of global surveillance and also demands a place for the nonhuman in feminist and queer thought. Zach Blas is an artist and lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His artwork...
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Imperceptibility and Accumulation: Political Strategies of Plastic

Heather Davis
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 187–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592543
Published: 01 September 2016
... and Epistemologies (2015) and the forthcoming volume Desire/Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada . Her writing can be found at heathermdavis.com . © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 queer theory plastic politics imperceptibility materiality Figure 1. Pinar Yoldas, neolabium TM Speculative...
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Chantal Akerman and the Cinéfille

Elspeth Mitchell
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278572
Published: 01 May 2023
... and feminist film theory . Cinéfille is conceptually both similar to and different from its near homophone, cinéphile , and aligns the moving image ( ciné ) with the girl ( fille ). The article develops the concept in relation to three areas: the possibility of a cine‐love before and beyond the masculine frame...
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Conferences, Conventions, Conversations, and Coffee

Dietrich Squinkifer
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 175–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3925185
Published: 01 September 2017
... in person during a fictional convention called AwesomeCon; during the course of a single playthrough they can become friends, get into heated arguments, or simply have an awkward conversation and leave. In a similar tradition to ideas advanced in feminist film theory such as Kaja Silverman's Subject...
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Is Film Theory Queer Theory? Or, Everything I Know about Queerness I Learned at the Movies

Theresa L. Geller
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 159–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2352243
Published: 01 December 2013
... most crucial insights. Although much can and should be said about these scholars and their impact on our field, I want to discuss the work of two scholars who figure centrally in my own feminist and queer critical archive: Eve Kosofsky Sedg- wick and Robin Wood, the mother of queer theory...
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Appropriate Feminisms: Ambivalence and Citational Practice in Appropriate Behavior

Clara Bradbury-Rance
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 145–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013660
Published: 01 December 2022
... Matter , 20. 33. Hemmings, Why Stories Matter , 162–63. 34. See Lee Wallace, Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020), 111. 35. Palis, “Race, Authorship, and Film Quotation,” 235. 36. Sara Ahmed, “Feminist Killjoys (and Other...
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Queer/Palestinian Cinema: A Critical Conversation on Palestinian Queer and Women's Filmmaking

Colleen Jankovic, Nadia Awad
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1597231
Published: 01 September 2012
... and feminist artistic practice in relation to Palestinian strategies for resistance. Together, the “Queer/Palestinian” films suggest the urgency for Palestinian visual artists to persistently generate new means of expressing, embodying, and critiquing visions for Palestinian society. Films such as Victoria...
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Nonmaterial Overelaboration: Gender, Casting, and Camouflaged Labor in Pat Rocco's Promotional Travelogue

Finley Freibert
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 89–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10654913
Published: 01 September 2023
... are present in early and important reflections on the blind spots of class and race in feminist film theories, and are also present in reconsiderations of feminist film theory as labor, as well as recent feminist investigations of labor in media production more broadly. 53 While John D'Emilio's pioneering...
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The Documentaries of Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Creativity, Kinship, and Erotic Pleasure in the Historical Margins

Ronald Gregg
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 105–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349399
Published: 01 December 2021
..., imagined, and celebrated lesbian lives and history in experimental films and documentaries from her groundbreaking lesbian feminist films in the 1970s until the end of her life in 2019. In the context of this dossier, her documentaries offer a key to her distinct perspective on queer history and affect...
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Histories of The Watermelon Woman : Reflexivity between Race and Gender

Catherine Zimmer
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2008-002
Published: 01 September 2008
... as an authorial subject implies that on some level that status must be unquestionable. Both critical race and feminist scholars have offered sub- stantial critiques of theories of postmodernity and of the accom- panying “death of the author” that have informed discussions of literature...
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Editorial

Sharon Willis, Constance Penley
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 4–7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9-1-2_25-26-4
Published: 01 September 1991
... details the critical im- portance to feminist theory of an attention to “queer” readings as well as “queer” textual inscriptions, through his examination of the crucial blindspots in recent critical studies of gender and sexuality in the world of Pee-wee Herman. Like...
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Local and Global: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory

Katie King
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 78–99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10-1_28-78
Published: 01 January 1992
...Katie King Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Masami Teraoka, 1992, New Wave Series1 Female Condom Tale, watercolor on paper Local and Global: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory Katie King The juncture between all of these interests...
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