..., “Horizons of Violence: Infanticidal Limits of Evolution and Culture.” Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien Resurrection (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, US, 1997) Conceptions and Contraceptions of the Future: Terminator 2, The Matrix, and Alien Resurrection A. Samuel Kimball The future can only...

... the representation of animals, knowledge, and expertise. Angela Bassett and Ralph Fiennes in Strange Days (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, US, 1995) Can “We All” Get Along? Social Difference, the Future, and Strange Days Mark Berrettini Several of the disparate character-driven narrative threads...

... Camera Obscura 2006 A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E Camera Obscura’s Archive for the Future To celebrate Camera Obscura’s thirtieth anniversary, we are pub- lishing short writings that we are calling an archive for the future...

... A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E Postfeminism and the Archive for the Future Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra Recent analyses (including our own) have taken note of the extent to which popular media have become thoroughly “postfeminized” lately. Employing postfeminism’s...

... Krikorian, Vanitas, 1977 A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E Imagining Future Gardens of History Jackie Hatfield As an artist making expanded cinematic artworks, I have a vested interest in how the history of moving-image practice is written, as well...

... Camera Obscura 2006 A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E Camera Obscura’s Archive for the Future To celebrate Camera Obscura’s thirtieth anniversary, we are pub- lishing short writings that we are calling an archive for the future...

... Camera Obscura 2007 A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E Camera Obscura’s Archive for the Future To celebrate Camera Obscura’s thirtieth anniversary, we are pub- lishing short writings that we are calling an archive for the future...

... The Archive, the Phallus, and the Future Karen Beckman I was delighted to read Camera Obscura’s call for submissions to an archive for the future and was especially interested to see “the phallus (a dead object on the list of possible contributions. I was caught by the potential for comedy...

... Camera Obscura 2007 ARCHIVE FOR THE FUTURE Camera Obscura’s Archive for the Future To celebrate Camera Obscura’s thirtieth anniversary, we published a series of short essays as a means of compiling a conceptual archive for the future of feminism...

...: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature (2005). She is working on two further book projects, “Public Feelings, Memory, and Affective Difference: Contemporary Visual Culture” and “Screening Older Women: Desire, Shame and the Body.” ARCHIVE FOR THE FUTURE...

...Kaja Silverman Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Back to the Future Kuju Silverman Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) represents a curious generic amal- gam; simultaneously science fiction and film noir, it points both for- ward and backward in time.l...

.... A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday Practices: Feminism, Materiality, Temporality Mary Desjardins My first exposure to Camera Obscura was in 1979 or 1980, while I was a master’s student in comparative literature at the University...

... America. The Wild Party (dir. Dorothy Arzner, US, 1929) A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E The Future of Feminism and Film History Lauren Rabinovitz It is now the fashion to pronounce film history, rather than film theory, as that which counts most...

... . Women’s Film Festival in Seoul, 2005. Courtesy of WFFIS A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E The Future Was Then: Reinvesting in Feminist Media Practice and Politics Alexandra Juhasz The future of feminist media scholarship begins with a return...

... Media Assemblage.” The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir. Albert Lewin, US, 1945) A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E The Future Is a Monster Amit Rai In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, two monsters haunt Dorian’s soul.1 Both are legible...

..., Imagining the Future A man of about thirty strikes us as a youthful, somewhat unformed individual. . . . A woman of the same age, however, often frightens us by her psychical rigidity and unchangeability. . . . It is as though, indeed, the difficult development to femininity had exhausted...

... at Varda. We contend that this is also the time to look at what is most extreme, innovative, and challenging in Varda's work, at what speaks to the future. Building on generations of important scholarship about Varda and her work, we continue the dialogue across disciplines and focus on some key areas...

... describes the process of working with Hammer to develop the grant, how Hammer's commitment to intergenerational, interdisciplinary conversation cultivated permission for future generations to break boundaries with their artwork, and how her legacy continues to be preserved through the grant's existence...

...Pat Gill Technostalgia: Making the Future Past Perfect Pat Gill In Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson argues that in the postmodern age nostalgia has replaced history as the way of understanding and responding to our personal...

... that rationalizes the sacrifice of the nonheterosexual, nonreproductive, and nonconformist to build a “better” race. The idealization of biraciality in Battlestar puts eugenic means to modern ends: the biological construction of a future wherein difference can be dealt with in reproductive rather than political...