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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
... a visibility of what Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri term “the flesh of the multitude” that offers opportunities for new forms of recognition and political alliance. Sleep Dealer provides an ambivalent theory of visibility and the production of collective memory within a neoliberal frame that sheds light...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the Anthropocene. In the process, what is erased is also the memory of other stories that could have been told, stories that emerge out of a history of violence against Black being—what Hortense Spillers calls “high crimes against the flesh ”—and that demand a temporality and a point of view that the cinema...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 92–115.
Published: 01 May 1996
... aimed
at showing the relevance of Merleau-Ponty's notion of flesh to the
reinstatement of corporeality as ground of technological representa-
tion. I would also like to argue that Egoyan's systematic use of screens
within the cinematic frame effects a transformation...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 36–53.
Published: 01 September 1991
... for the nineteenth-century monster; skin is precisely
what does not fit, Frankenstein sutures his monster’s ugly flesh together
by binding it in a yellow skin, too tight and too thick. When, in the
modern horror movie, terror rises to the surface, the surface itself
becomes a complex...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 130–149.
Published: 01 May 1992
..., Baby”
[Figure 31. This time, the image of a 7-week-old fetus, fifteen times
its actual size, fills the screen before us, its hand moving as if to wave.
“Child of my imagination,” the narrative continues, “you will never
be child. Flesh of my flesh, you will never...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 161–187.
Published: 01 December 2015
... stupor. The camera
zooms in on one of her eyes, gradually banishing offscreen the
vivid, bloody red of her devastated flesh. The camera’s gaze con-
tinues its movement, plunging into her iris and pupil and toward
a blinding luminescence accompanied by preternatural rumbling
sounds...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2007
... the scene switches; the next (filmic) moment finds
us in space and in the future, floating slowly, so slowly toward the
moon.
68 • Camera Obscura
Long, Long Ago and Far, Far Away (1978 – 2005):
Star Wars; Fleshing out the Continuum
Every race of being that is capable of self-consciously...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 53–67.
Published: 01 December 1989
... Woman,” Flesh , Intervention 21/22 ( 1988 ): 4 8–53. Creed , Barbara . “Pornography and Pleasure: The Female Spectator.” Australian Journal of Screen Theory 15/16 ( 1983 ): 67 –88. Creed , Barbara . “Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection,” Screen 27 , no. 2...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 59–63.
Published: 01 May 2006
... archives of pain on its surfaces, in its flesh. Whether
one refers to them as human rights, trauma portfolios, or literary
and filmic testimonios, these discursive and material renderings of
seared subaltern flesh betray the body’s monstrous affects, that
body which is irreducible to and in excess...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 110–125.
Published: 01 December 1984
... to mean that this is the present situation
of the arts and commentary on them, that nothing has changed since
Diderot? Do you think that the pages of Diderot’s Essay on Painting
devoted to divinities made flesh and flesh made divinities - I can’t quote
them, just go read them, you know...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 86–109.
Published: 01 December 1986
... and paranoia. In the
setting of spreading global communism, fading postwar prosperity, and
the renewed threat of nuclear holocaust, Hollywood disgorged an army
of implacable invaders feasting upon flesh and blood, like the brainy
carrotman of The Thing; or cannibalizing consciousness, like the emo...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 129–160.
Published: 01 May 1997
... the
ambiguous boundaries of mind and body, and for this reason it disap-
peared as a motif in the age of radical materialism. For a counterpoint,
let3 look more closely at the Romavisaya.
THE END OF RELIGION
The Instructions Buried in the Flesh
“The Kingdom of Rome...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 99–117.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of the womb, substituting
itself for caesarian surgery. The woman mutilates the expanse of
flesh connected to breath, to birth, to life, which comes between
breasts and vagina. Here we might consider how masochism is
often misconstrued as direct pleasure from pain, rather than as a
complex desire for pain...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 154–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
... their fantasies in the flesh. Yes, we did spend an enormous time editing this project we shot over one night, and then edited over three months. I think it was actually the sound that we spent the most amount of time on, mixing and remixing. The Bollywood soundtrack became this other character once you...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 24–53.
Published: 01 January 1989
... is treated by coupling it with opposition: activiqdpassivity. l7
The relative absence of concrete, flesh and blood women in the writings
of Soviet filmmakers on montage should not obscure the pervasive and
obsessive sense of duality that characterizes the theorizing of montage.
Indeed...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 243–274.
Published: 01 May 1997
... decloak-
ingdemasking her face and body to the curious gaze of her world-
wide spectator The horror is not simply in the flesh being cut, after
numerous injections with four-inch needles into the side of her head,
but in the lifting of the flesh and the insertion...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 1992
...:
cut it up and eat it, or throw it back. When he pulled a hook through the
tender flesh, it felt like the point of a sharp phrase that turned an argument
in his favor, or the butt of a joke about big cocks and virgins. Lively but
short-lived; a brook trout was fragile and delicious...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 226–242.
Published: 01 May 1997
... process of carnivorous mass production. In the black and white
world of the chicken factory, flesh is either food for human consump-
tion, or extraneous matter that is simply washed away.
This order will soon be disrupted however, as the chickens come
home to roost. A driver for Eunice Food...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 76–91.
Published: 01 May 1992
..., the eroticizing of some
other zone of exchange). The Annunciation is sometimes figured as a
shaft of light or stream of words issuing from the Angel and entering
the Virgin’s ear.’ Thus she becomes pregnant with meaning, the word
is made flesh. The analyst, receiving (hearing) the words of the anal...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 66–83.
Published: 01 September 1995
... painting. Yet, this nude is not like a Renaissance nude,
nor any other kind of nude for that matter. The body of this nude-
made only of a miniature gold crown, a dark colored mask, a “flesh”-
tone hand and breasts, dark brown-tone legs, and a hairless pink and
red vagina...
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