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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
... imaginary and constitutes a contemporary horror subcycle wherein the well-worn idiom of trauma is replaced by more abstract and disembodied threats. In dialogue with Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff's concept of “occult economies,” this article explores the ways in which the franchise's found-footage...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 129–155.
Published: 01 May 2003
... the phantoms choose to cross the bridge, to paraphrase an
intertitle from F. W. Murnau’s silent film Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie
des Grauens [Nosferatu: A symphony of horror] (Germany, 1922),
sometimes it is because they long for you. Watching the found
ethnographic footage films Bontoc Eulogy (dir. Marlon...
View articletitled, The Quick and the Dead: Surrealism and the <span class="search-highlight">Found</span> Ethnographic <span class="search-highlight">Footage</span> Films of Bontoc Eulogy and Mother Dao: The Turtlelike
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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 243–274.
Published: 01 May 1997
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ment-anxiety ridden and guilty-shiftily shuffling the paperwork to
make her disappear.48
The shock of RosweZl-The Footage is the presentation of a visual
metaphor, horror story, or myth as reality, and yet it completely adheres
to literary and cinematic type...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 57–91.
Published: 01 December 2004
...—the invention of video technology has made corporate
media more accessible for repurposing. Dara Birnbaum is gener-
ally credited as the pioneer of television appropriation in short-
form video art with Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
(US, 1978); subsequently “found” footage has seen exponential...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 85–127.
Published: 01 May 2003
...
Shrinking Man (dir. Jack Arnold, US, 1957); teeming microscopic
cells and viruses (from old instructional films); mundane shots of
the repetitive medical tests taken by Hoolboom; scratched and
bleached-out footage of a family Christmas; and melodramatic
reaction shots of horror and pathos (from classic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 91–117.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of Chinese POWs and civilians inside Nanjing City. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the Tokyo Trial (May 1946–November 1948), found that at least two hundred thousand people were killed and approximately twenty thousand Chinese women were raped during the six weeks after...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 93–133.
Published: 01 September 2012
... behind digital masks, corporealization
versus phantomization, archival footage versus documentary ani-
mation, simulacral aura versus desire for referentiality, and realist
versus Brechtian reenactment.
The lms display ve prominent characteristics of perpetra-
tor trauma. The rst...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 128–139.
Published: 01 May 1976
... combine con-
sciousnessraising with encounter therapy.
ANIMALS RUNNING (1974) 18min. ; B&W; 16mm; sound.
Footage from a verygood wildlife cameraman, edited by Severson. Melodic
finger piano chords accompany the trotting, jumping, looking, walking,
swimming...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
... the important place of the
archive in the lesbian popular imaginary. The actual LHA inspires
the same devotion that draws Cheryl to Fae Richards. Founded in
1974, the archives were first housed in the cramped quarters of
Joan Nestle and Deborah Edel’s Upper West Side apartment, and
stories of visits...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 75–102.
Published: 01 May 1997
...; the government, as a strange
attractor for paranoid fantasies and cynical denials, therefore must
appear 60th incompetent, “idiots” on Capitol Hill, and sinister, agen-
cies that will stop at nothing to conceal the lies that found our
national and individual identities. To be “normal...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 112–132.
Published: 01 May 1988
...
the notion,” writes Ramsaye, “of dividing up the flicker of the motion
picture by adding blades to the then single bladed shutter. He tried
this out and found that by multiplying the flicker in fact he eliminated
it in effect. The resulting betterment of projection was extraordinary.”
Ramsaye draws...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and faces in reproduced family snapshots,
in newspaper clippings, and in graphic news footage of the found
bodies. These low-resolution, grainy, and distorted images that
unpredictably but insistently surface throughout the documen-
tary appear in varying states of textual decomposition...
View articletitled, The Mysteries of Voice: Love and Transnational Identification in Performing the Border, The Price of Sex , and Señorita extraviada
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for article titled, The Mysteries of Voice: Love and Transnational Identification in Performing the Border, The Price of Sex , and Señorita extraviada
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 195–225.
Published: 01 December 2001
... repeatedly link illegal or unassimilated aliens and their
mythological counterparts—aliens who descend from outer
space, with, to use Orson Welles’s fictional account, gray snaking
bodies and faces so unfamiliar that they inspire sheer horror. I am
suggesting...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 34–49.
Published: 01 September 1977
... with materials of very different origins-a
quotation from Brecht, some news/ archive footage, images from a news-
paper report-their verydiversity drawing us awayfrom immersion in the
personaldrama of Schoenberg, the man.
The quotation from Brecht (from his address to the'1935 Paris Con...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 86–109.
Published: 01 December 1986
... angst into extravagant scenarios, we have been served
up an outerspace ghoulie to match the proper paranoia of the
day-A lien!
Despite its contemporary iconography, Alien hearkens back to the
malignant conception of unearthly life found in fifties science fiction,
during another...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 143–179.
Published: 01 May 2001
... in which it both surpasses and reproduces the narrative
themes and ideological effects found in the larger filmic context.
Massood writes about the artistic and industrial similarities among
such films as Straight Out of Brooklyn (dir. Matty Rich, 1994...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2016
...” with a shock of white hair; and Jack, who
embodies, again in Monk’s withering words, “the archetypal cli-
ché of a horror movie ventriloquist mannequin.” Capping the list
is an eerie puppet resembling Campbell, a caricature with bushy
eyebrows and moveable eyelids and jaw, whose hard head some...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 157–187.
Published: 01 May 2003
...
Welles feeds his guilt, anxiety, and self-hatred by searching
out new instances of betrayal, heartbreak, and horror. When Amy
Welles asks her husband why he took a job he found distasteful,
he explains that “Senator Michaelson has powerful friends.”
Welles discovers disagreeable truths for important...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 52–76.
Published: 01 September 1996
... by
avoiding trouble. Ali was different; he found a gospel and he lived by
it, whatever the cost to his reputation or to the job he so loved. When
We Were Kings recalls a time, not so long ago, when an athlete could
be a renegade hero, not of the self, but of the soul Ali was markedly...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 81–109.
Published: 01 May 2014
... is also inflected with Johnson’s sensibility
and speaks to her personal story. Her style involves adopting the
adventure-search narrative and using special effects typically found
in the horror/slasher and supernatural genres — the film styles she
loved as a child. As a story about a man who has...
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