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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 29–67.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Linda Williams This essay's point of departure is the question of how images of death and torture are literally and metaphorically framed by the people who take them and how they are further received by the publics who see them. Beginning with a comparison of two digital headshots of an Arab enemy...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 1–33.
Published: 01 September 2005
... is currently completing a monograph on the representation of Arab/Muslim women in contemporary literature and visual media. A rare glimpse of Tahereh’s face in Through the Olive Trees
(Zire darakhatan zeyton) (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, France/
Iran, 1994). Courtesy Artifi cial Eye
Women in a Widening Frame...
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in Looking for Something New: Antonioni's La notte and Specters of Femininity
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 3. The blank substance of enjoyment filling the entire frame. La notte (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy/France, 1961)
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 37–61.
Published: 01 September 2020
... theory kept alive. 1 Nevertheless, black film studies and black feminism continue to Framing Black Performance: Selma and the Poetics of Representation Courtney R. Baker Camera Obscura 104, Volume 35, Number 2 doi 10.1215/02705346-8359506 © 2020 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 37 38...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 173–201.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Lou Silhol-Macher Abstract This article traces the role of frames in suspending the self in Lovely Andrea (Japan/Austria/Germany), a video essay by Hito Steyerl presented at Documenta 12 in 2007. A seldom‐analyzed artwork within Steyerl's otherwise widely circulating and discussed oeuvre, Lovely...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 95–105.
Published: 01 September 1988
...Lynne Kirby Pascal Bonitzer, Décadrages: Peinture et cinéma (Paris: Cahiers du Cinéna/Éditions de l'Étoile, 1985) Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Painting and Cinema: The Frames of Discourse
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Pascal Bonitzer, Decadrages: Peinture...
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in From Elif to Esty? Unorthodox and Turkish German Cinema's Captivity Narrative
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 1. Esty framed in captivity in Unorthodox (dir. Maria Schrader, Netflix, 2020)
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in Self-Suspension in Frames: Hito Steyerl's Lovely Andrea
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 11. Telescopic frames and image grafting. Spider-Woman in the control room. Lovely Andrea (dir. Hito Steyerl, Japan/Austria/Germany, 2007). Courtesy of the artist
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in Thoughts on Making Films with Barbara Hammer
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 1. Image from A Month of Single Frames (dir. Lynne Sachs, US, 2019). Courtesy of the author
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to queer gamers, game designers, and games critics and scholars. This introduction frames queer game studies as both a theory and practice, beginning a special In Practice section of Camera Obscura that profiles the Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon), the first conference explicitly dedicated...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 69–87.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of the 1979 film The Rose (dir. Mark Rydell, US), and in particular, through its spectacular reimagining of Janis Joplin's death, Bradshaw explores our cultural attachment to narratives of the diva's abjection and shame. By framing Joplin, that quintessential symbol of both 1960s rock-and-roll culture...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 1–3.
Published: 01 May 2014
... functions throughout the essays as a critical prism through which individual authors consider the current industrial, theoretical, and cultural values that frame female directors and their work. © 2014 by Camera Obscura 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... describe their profound grief; and each filmmaker includes herself either in the frame or in the voice-over of the film—sometimes in both. Despite their distinct aesthetic investments, these three films share common thematic preoccupations with gender-based violence and filmically constructed justice...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 149–153.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Zach Blas This introduction proposes opacity as a generative and necessary frame for contemporary feminist and queer politics. Theorized by the Martinican philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant, opacity can be understood as an incalculable alterity that is at once the relational ontology...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 155–165.
Published: 01 September 2016
... a discussion of his Facial Weaponization Suite (2011–14), a series of biometric masks that ask who and what we make visible to technology. Looking to the face as a critical site for negotiated visibility, Blas and Gaboury draw on diverse traditions of concealment and performance to frame the contemporary...
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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...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2019
... theory of the matrixial borderspace provides a rich conceptual frame to consider the intergenerational transference of trauma that is so palpably present in No Home Movie and that, in many ways, might be read as a key to Akerman’s entire oeuvre. Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019 Chantal...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 197–217.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., 1988). D’Est ( From the East , France/Belgium, 1993) is featured for its impact on the future work of both artists and expanding Chantal’s work from the big screen to live performance with D’Est in Music (2005). Their passion for the live stage and breaking the confines of the film frame is seen...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 77–107.
Published: 01 May 2020
.../France, 2012)—showing how the Cambodian genocide is for the first time dealt with as a gendered genocide, breaking the taboo issues of forced marriage (a unique form of genocide in the world) and rape. A detailed analysis of Red Wedding describes how the meaning of forced marriage and rape is framed...
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