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Raised Fists: Politics, Technology, and Embodiment in 1970s French Feminist Video Collectives

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Ros Murray
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 93–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454441
Published: 01 May 2016
...Ros Murray This article assesses the impact and import of 1970s French feminist video collectives, focusing on the relationship between technology, subjectivity, and embodiment. It investigates how early portable video technology provided the tools for an exploration of subjectivity as collective...
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Reframing the New French Extremity: Cinema, Theory, Mediation

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Mauro Resmini
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 161–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3160685
Published: 01 December 2015
...Mauro Resmini This article examines a recent tendency in contemporary art cinema—the New French Extremity (NFE)—and focuses specifically on a critique of the scholarly discourse that has flourished around it in recent years. The fundamental argument of this discourse can be summarized as follows...
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New French Feminisms: Some Points Re-viewed

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Rosi Braidotti, Jane Weinstock
Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 144–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3-1_7-144
Published: 01 May 1981
...Rosi Braidotti; Jane Weinstock © 1981 by Camera Obscura 1981 Book Review New French Feminisms: Some Points Re-viewed Rosi Braidotti andJane Weinstock The text which follows is part of a larger, polyvocal response (forth- coming in the Australian feminist journal, Hecute) to New...
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Making “Women's News”: French Feminists of la Femme nouvelle (1934–36) and the Newsreel Magazine Actualités féminines

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Maya Sidhu
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10654871
Published: 01 September 2023
...Maya Sidhu Abstract This article demonstrates how the interwar French suffragist organization la Femme nouvelle used the platform of the newsreel to make political claims through its collaboration with Pathé’s newsreel magazine Actualités féminines or Women's News . Through the filming...
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French Feminism

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Nancy Huston
Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 237–244.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1-2-3-1_3-4-237
Published: 01 May 1979
... The Camera Obscura Collective French Feminism Syntactical hesitation: Ywelthey. The third person plural signifies dis- tance, taking French feminists as the object of a discourse. The first person plural signifies solidarity, describing the women I have loved and with whom I have worked over...
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Choreographing Homosexual Desire in Philippe Vallois's Johan

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David A. Gerstner
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2352176
Published: 01 December 2013
...David A. Gerstner This article presents a study of Philippe Vallois's 1976 gay film Johan: Mon été 75 , the only French film from the period that directly and explicitly represents gay male sexuality and its urban milieu, Paris. Johan tells the story of a filmmaker (played by Vallois) who intends...
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A Strange Child of Paradise: The Artistry of Arletty's “Self” in Les enfants du paradis

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Hervé Picherit
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 93–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3776879
Published: 01 May 2017
...Hervé Picherit This essay argues that the French actress Arletty, née Léonie Bathiat, engaged in a multifaceted and complex form of selfhood that profoundly influenced her role in the classic film of the French occupation period, Les enfants du paradis ( Children of Paradise , dir. Marcel Carné...
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Figure 1. Agnès Varda presents speech with Cate Blanchett at the 12 May 2018 Cannes Film Festival demonstration. She stands beside director Céline Sciamma and with members of the French 50/50 en 2020 collective. Clarence Tsui, “French Film Legend Agnès Varda on Faces Places, Her Feminist Vision, and Visits to Hong Kong and China,” South China Morning Post, 5 June 2018

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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 1. Agnès Varda presents speech with Cate Blanchett at the 12 May 2018 Cannes Film Festival demonstration. She stands beside director Céline Sciamma and with members of the French 50/50 en 2020 collective. Clarence Tsui, “French Film Legend Agnès Varda on Faces Places , Her Feminist Vision More
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Violence and the Gaze in Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl ( À ma sœur! )

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Ora Gelley
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3924672
Published: 01 September 2017
...Ora Gelley The French director Catherine Breillat has in recent years become a kind of figurehead for what has been perceived by many as a new trend in contemporary European cinema toward extreme representations of violence and graphic sexuality. As a consequence of the controversy provoked...
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The Minor Transnationalism of Queer Asian Cinema: Female Authorship and the Short Film Format

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Olivia Khoo
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2408507
Published: 01 May 2014
...Olivia Khoo Singaporean filmmaker Sun Koh's short film Dirty Bitch ( Tu Nu [兔女], 2009) was inspired by a violently censored VHS copy of Claire Denis's Nénette et Boni (France, 1996) found by the director at the Singapore public library. While the film can be read as an homage to a well-known French...
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A Kitchen of One's Own: The Paradox of Dione Lucas

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Kathleen Collins
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1597195
Published: 01 September 2012
...Kathleen Collins First appearing on the air in 1947, Dione Lucas was one of the earliest television cooking-show hosts. As a business owner, single mother, influential salesperson, and highly respected professional in her field (Julia Child referred to Lucas as “the mother of French cooking...
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Slapstick Comediennes in Transitional Cinema: Between Body and Medium

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Maggie Hennefeld
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 85–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2704643
Published: 01 September 2014
... that these women's performances played crucial roles in orchestrating transitions in industrial film form. Focusing on a comparison between the French Pathé and American Vitagraph companies, I examine the variety of techniques deployed to try to rationalize or contain the unruly bodily gestures of slapstick...
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Passion, Commitment, Compassion: Les Justes au Panthéon by Agnès Varda

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Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 87–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838553
Published: 01 May 2021
...Sandy Flitterman-Lewis Abstract Agnès Varda's 2007 installation Les Justes au Panthéon ( The Righteous at the Pantheon , France) honored the many French “Righteous” who saved Jewish children during World War II in a ceremony commemorating their heroic actions with the placement of a plaque...
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The Leaves Are Stirring (1948)

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Nicole Vedrès, Ivan Cerecina
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 59–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10206824
Published: 01 December 2022
... vigor among French film writers in the period after the war. These include questions of cinema's relationship to the real, the ability of images to capture historical change, and the relationship between cinematic montage and the act of writing. Figure 1. Le repas de bébé ( Baby's Meal , dir...
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“The very palpitation of life!”: “The Leaves Are Stirring” in Context

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Ivan Cerecina
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 69–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013618
Published: 01 December 2022
... singularity in the landscape of postwar French film writing. Opening out from this historical context, it closes by gesturing toward the modernity of Vedrès's essay in terms of more contemporary archival filmmaking, as well as thinking on the relationship between cinema and history. 27. Vedrès, “Le cinéma...
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Hip-Hop Cinema in France

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Dominique Bluher
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 77–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-16-1_46-77
Published: 01 May 2001
... of film theory. For the past eight years she has been an editor of iris . She also serves as the French correspondent for the International Forum of Young Cinema at the Berlin Film Festival. 03-Bluher.sh 5/29/01 12:38 PM Page iv Souviens-toi-de moi [Remember Me] (1995/96...
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A Pygmalion Tale Retold: Remaking La Femme Nikita

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Laura Grindstaff
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 133–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-16-2_47-133
Published: 01 September 2001
... series) One of the most popular and critically acclaimed shows ever to appear on basic cable, La Femme Nikita has an interesting textual pedigree. It is based on Luc Besson’s 1990 French film of the same name, which was remade as a Hong Kong action movie titled Black Cat (dir. Stephen Shin, 1991...
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Aural Topographies of Migration in Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche

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Angelica Fenner
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 93–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-016
Published: 01 December 2007
... scholars hailing “the return of the political” in French film culture.1 Immigration, racism, and integration were addressed in films by internationally renowned auteurs such as the Belgian masters of provincial naturalism, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (La promesse [The Promise, Belgium/France...
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Those Who Squat and Those Who Sit: The Iconography of Race in the 1895 Films of Félix-Louis Regnault

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Fatimah Tobing Rony
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 262–289.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10-1_28-262
Published: 01 January 1992
...- graphique de 1’Afrique Occidentale (Senegal and French Sudan) be- cause of the promise of good pay. You have been positioned in front of the camera, and you are thinking about how cold it is: you can’t believe that you have to live here in this reconstruction of a West African village, crowded...
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Isabelle Huppert; or, The Gallic Valkyrie Who Bewitched Brooklyn

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Edward Baron Turk
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 158–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-010
Published: 01 September 2007
... and the Golden Age of French Cinema and Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald . He is currently researching a book on contemporary French theater. Isabelle Huppert; or, The Gallic Valkyrie Who Bewitched Brooklyn Edward Baron Turk It is October 2005. I am seated in the eighth row...
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