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Kyung-Sung: Cinematic Memories of the Colonial Past in Contemporary Korea
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2015
... 2015 by Camera Obscura 2015 Korean modernity colonial memory urban memory noir space forgotten future Figure 1. CGI reconstruction of Kyung-Sung in the 1930s in
Modern Boy (dir. Ji-woo Jeong, South Korea, 2008)
Kyung-Sung: Cinematic Memories
of the Colonial Past...
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The Forgotten Man; or, How Hollywood Invented Welfare
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 74–107.
Published: 01 September 2006
... in the narrative dimension, the characters assuring each
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other that the show will be a hit, and the romantic leads sealing
their future with a kiss and a promise, leaving the forgotten men
locked securely in the theatrical frame...
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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
..., 1995). For women artists everywhere May your pleasures in creating be huge; your path, sound; your fears, vanished; your successes valued. Yours is the future I write for. —Barbara Hammer, Hammer! Making Movies out of Sex and Life Barbara Hammer observed, researched, archived...
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An Interview with the Artist Radha May: A Global Collective with a Single Identity
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 177–183.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and experiences in her art practice and building on the tradition of artists who play with the construction of identity. Radha May's work explores forgotten and hidden histories, peripheral sites, and feminine myths. The interview explores her latest project, When the Towel Drops, Volume 1, Italy (2015), which...
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The Anthropocene as Cinematic View: Time, Matter, and Race in Blade Runner 2049
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of a forgotten future. Rather, it functions as the call of interpellation for an aging mythology, an order that is now claiming its ultimate, undisputable difference through the lineage of the Anthropos. Like the family of the homo , that of the anthropos needs a father, and, at this point in the history...
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Panting in the Dark: The Ambivalence of Air in Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Irigaray's argument that Heidegger has “forgotten” the pre-Socratic element air in a philosophy that privileges materiality and vision, I examine popular films that feature air, and in particular breathing, as a central trope. Because of an emphasis on the more obviously material aspects of visual images...
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How EXPRMNTL Made the Small Coastal Town of Knokke the Scene for Radical Artistic New Waves and Political Sea Changes
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 169–179.
Published: 01 December 2012
... problem the festival must face if it is to have a future:
whether to concentrate upon presenting increasingly subtle and
complex lms under the best of technical circumstances, which I believe
would imply many more screenings to smaller audiences to minimize
the inevitable hostility of many...
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Rescuing the Fragmentary Evidence of Women's Experimental Film
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 153–156.
Published: 01 December 2006
... would take the assignment of forming an archive literally and
preserve for the future all of the celluloid and videotape with
which women filmmakers have worked outside of the film industry.
The completed films would surely be included, but the fragments
never used in finished works due...
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The Imaginary Archive: Current Practice
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 179–184.
Published: 01 December 2007
....” ARCHIVE FOR THE FUTURE
The Imaginary Archive:
Current Practice
Tess L. Takahashi
The term archive usually connotes an officially sanctioned reposi-
tory of objects and documents that reinforce a group or nation’s
identity and origins. What then can be made of the deluge...
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Unfixings: Archiving the Future
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 185–191.
Published: 01 December 2007
... studies but “presentifying” it (to echo Vivian Sob-
chack’s essay in this series).10 That is, this archive brings perhaps
forgotten works and films into the present to act on the future.
Works crucial to queer, gay/lesbian, and race (ethnicity, indi-
geneity) studies are central...
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Feminist Film in the Gallery: If 6 Was 9
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2005
... projection: it is a hybrid form, adapting available
equipment—cameras and projectors intended primarily for creat-
ing single-screen works—for purposes other than those for which
it was designed, facing past and future in a moment of technologi-
cal transition between old media and new. Perhaps...
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Breeding Unity: Battlestar Galactica 's Biracial Reproductive Futurity
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2012
... emblem of future
cultural immortality for which no present sacri ce is too great.
She particularly evokes Edelman’s discussion of P. D. James’s The
Children of Men, another extinction story wherein humanity loses
the ability to conceive children because they have forgotten how
to love.27...
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Strategic Sentimentality: Nostalgia and the Work of Eleanor Antin
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 129–167.
Published: 01 December 2007
....
While Svetlana Boym, in her impressive study The Future
of Nostalgia, has almost single-handedly attempted to resuscitate
nostalgia as a potentially productive and, at any rate, indispens-
able concept, most references to nostalgia in contemporary critical
writing tend toward...
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Archaeological Narrative; or, Nostalgic Fascination with the Obsolete in the South Korean TV Drama Reply 1988
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 61–93.
Published: 01 December 2024
... viewers, the television as an emblem of an “aesthetic of ordinary, mundane human existence” as depicted in Reply 1988 may actually represent an unfamiliar, nearly forgotten aspect of the medium. 17 The drama thereby showcases a distinct contrast between current and historical technology, prompting...
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Against House Arrest: Digital Memory and the Impossible Archive
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 39–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., forgotten
relationality. Indeed, they appear like “promissory notes for future
elaboration or enigmatic prompts for future scenarios,” implicitly
mobilizing the suspended, oscillating temporality of the future
anterior on which we have placed aesthetic and political value.16
What will have...
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“These Spectacles Are Never Forgotten”: Memory and Reception in Colette's Film Criticism
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 119–163.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Galliera and in
Kahn’s secreening room. Courtesy Les Documents
Cinématographiques, Paris
“These Spectacles Are Never
Forgotten”: Memory and
Reception in Colette’s Film
Criticism
Paula Amad
It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures,
but it is the loss...
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Allegory and the Aesthetics of Becoming-Woman in Marziyeh Meshkini's The Day I Became a Woman
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2007
... representation, but at the same time, she
generates a similarly urgent conjunction between past, present,
and future. In order to understand how she accomplishes this,
however, a greater comprehension of the workings of allegory will
prove useful.
With any allegorical text or artwork, one would...
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An Affair to Forget: Melancholia in Bromantic Comedy
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
... backward might be said to dovetail with a num-
ber of theories, like those of Lee Edelman, who scathingly dissects
what he calls “reproductive futurism,” or Judith Halberstam, who
lauds the fact that some queers “use space and time in ways that
challenge conventional logics of development, maturity...
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The Unicorn and the Larva: In Conversation
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 154–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., nation-state politics, activism, and eventually into concerns about the environment and the nonhuman. In their most recent works, the artists confront the legacy of human exceptionalism and invoke the forgotten wisdom of interspecies dependence and desire as a way through the sixth extinction. Will we...
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Appear to Disappear: Blackness, Affect, and the Political Imaginary
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 173–197.
Published: 01 September 2023
...-deactivated2018082), but it has since been deactivated. This article examines the role of affect in making possible or impossible particular political futures. Specifically, I argue that legacies of slavery and domination have produced affective lineages that influence how Black people are included within...
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