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Christ, Santa Claus, Doctor Deliverer: For Carolee Schneemann
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2021
... fantasies” in Schneemann's work, the essay proposes a shift in feminist art historiography and its projections on Schneemann the artist. The essay asserts Schneemann's tale as a cautionary and self-reflexive one for those who come after, the would-be-daughters, who would negate the body, the struggle...
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Mary Cassatt
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 111–119.
Published: 01 September 1983
..., the basis upon which Pollock
establishes Cassatt's interest to feminism is not ultimately secured on these
grounds. Indeed, elsewhere, Pollock tends to regard with suspicion such
purely restorative ventures in feminist art historiography. She makes the
claim that
it is far too simplistic...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2005
... in the international culture marketplace.
— Rey Chow, Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography,
and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Feminist film historiography has become a dynamic site of schol-
arly activity in which the screen is indeed “a new type of ethno-
graphic picture,” one...
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A Feminist Still: Documentary Form and Untimely Critique in Sheba Chhachhi’s Protest Photography
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Lakshmi Padmanabhan What can photographic form teach us about feminist historiography? Through close readings of photographs by visual artist and documentary photographer Sheba Chhachhi, who documented the struggle for women’s rights in India from the 1980s onward, this article outlines...
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More Than “Just Talk”: The Chelsea Picture Station in the 1970s
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 125–133.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Women), and even restaurants (Mother Courage). Filmmak-
ing was just one arena in which feminist action took place, but
it became a significant one in several ways. An upsurge in femi-
nist filmmaking helped reshape the character of avant-garde art
practices, seen primarily as a male domain...
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Temporal Surfacing: Mosori Monika (1970) and Chick Strand's Cross-Cultural Explorations
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 31–57.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in the filmmaker's feminist oeuvre spurred in part by the newly restored prints of her films, Canyon Cinema 50 screenings on tour, 2 as well as the “documentary turn” in contemporary art and moving image culture. 3 While this newfound interest in Strand's work is a positive development, the ways in which...
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Feminist History and The Song of the Shirt
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 110–127.
Published: 01 May 1981
... been particularly effective in raising these ques-
tions; by using signifying practices from the dominant cinema and
from independent, avant-garde, and feminist cinema, it can get the
audience to question these relationships.
History, Historiography, and Cinema
In this context...
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Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 167–168.
Published: 01 January 1990
... and Comparative Literature at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is currently writing her dissertation on the impli-
cations of Foucault’s work for a feminist historiography.
Rhona Berenstein is a doctoral candidate in Film and Television Critical Studies
at UCLA. Her reviews and articles have...
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The World and the Soup: Historicizing Media Feminisms in Transnational Contexts
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
Published: 01 December 2009
... the contributions of women filmmakers and the influence of feminist thought might be registered within these paradigms, gender and feminist political analyses are not integral to their geographic and discursive rationales. Feminisms' historical roles in industrial, national, and transnational independent, art...
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Feminism and Film History
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 8–27.
Published: 01 January 1990
...
by women for an unbroken tradition of “feminist art”. A feminist film
history, Johnston argued, is not simply a matter of “reintroducing”
women into an untransformed history, as yet another series of “facts”
to be assimilated into a preexisting chronology:
“History” is not some abstract...
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The Documentaries of Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Creativity, Kinship, and Erotic Pleasure in the Historical Margins
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 105–117.
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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In Practice: Queerness and Games
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
Published: 01 September 2017
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and practice. Feminist and queer theory and practice help scholars
to view games in a new light, arguing for queer modes of playing
and reading games. However, the feminist and queer study of video
games as art and culture is in its early stages, and video game stud-
ies could still benefit from...
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Sad Songs of Nitrate: Women's Work in the Silent Film Archive
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 171–178.
Published: 01 December 2007
... historiography, see Lauren Rabonivitz, “Past Imperfect:
Feminism and Social Histories of Silent Film,” CiNéMAS 16
(2005): 21 – 34; Jane M. Gaines, “Film History and the Two
Presents of Feminist Film Theory,” Cinema Journal 44 (2004):
113 – 19; Kathleen McHugh and Vivian Sobchack...
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History in the Battle of Voices
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 130–137.
Published: 01 January 1990
... historiography. Certainly Ginzburg’s approach parallels
that of feminists who have sought to study the repressed voices of
history and the processes which have encouraged this repression. But
the generality of Ginzburg’s concern for all situations of discursive
conflict means...
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Cinema Histories, Cinema Practices Asilomar Conference
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 223–233.
Published: 01 December 1982
... not entirely
alignable with the sessions marked out by the conference’s announced
schedule. We have therefore divided these papers into the three areas
of most insistent focus: History and Theory, Alternative Practices,
and Feminist Analysis.
History and Theory
This was a theoretically...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
Published: 01 September 2009
... rhetoric of value, proposing that the “pretty” as a recurrent taste category in film reveals an imbrication of gender, sexuality, and race in the construction of the cinematic image itself. Analysis of the pretty's antecedents in histories of art demonstrates how colonial and patriarchal modes of aesthetic...
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“I Have One Daughter and That Is Egyptian Cinema”: `Azīza Amīr amid the Histories and Geographies of National Allegory
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 137–177.
Published: 01 May 2007
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flapper dresses and hats rather than veils. The pages ofL’Egyptienne
(the Egyptian Feminist Union’s mouthpiece, concerned, as it pro-
claimed on its cover, with “Feminism, Sociology, Art”) were full of
such photographs of its membership. Amı¯r also became one of
them in particularly loaded...
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Screening Musidora: Inscribing Indeterminacy in Film History
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 59–81.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Feuillade , to be published by Wayne State University Press. She is also coediting an anthology of feminist film history and historiography. Musidora as the phantom that haunts film history in
Les vampires (1915–16), directed by Louis Feuillade
Screening Musidora: Inscribing
Indeterminacy in Film...
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Facing Death, Choosing Life: Pose 's Positive Historiography
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
... are later undermined by the push for the positive. The first section develops the concept of “haptic historiography” to explicate how exactly the museum heist models an historiographic reckoning. I bring theories of hapticality and art historical critiques of the museum's epistemological authority...
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Picturing What If : Julie Dash's Speculative Fiction
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 116–131.
Published: 01 May 1996
... at the tail end of the Reagan-Bush era, at a time when cuts
to federal funding for the arts had been draconian. In this regard, one
could say that Daughters ofthe Dust is less a product of its time than
a product in spite of its time. Yet, while it is accurate to characterize
the climate surrounding most...
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