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Of Red Queens and Garden Clubs: The Manchurian Candidate , Cold War Paranoia, and the Historicity of the Homosexual
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 149–183.
Published: 01 May 2005
... in The Manchurian
Candidate (dir. John Frankenheimer, US, 1962)
Of Red Queens and Garden Clubs:
The Manchurian Candidate,
Cold War Paranoia, and the
Historicity of the Homosexual
Kevin Ohi
In Schreber’s system, the two principal elements of his
delusion (his transformation into a woman and his...
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Imagining Future Gardens of History
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 184–191.
Published: 01 September 2006
... 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...
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(Mis)Imagining Africa in the New Millennium: The Constant Gardener and Blood Diamond
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 69–99.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of Africa in two celebrated twenty-first century films, The Constant Gardener and Blood Diamond , and questions whether problematic archetypes still hold in the new millennium. By reading both films as noir thrillers with humanitarian agendas, the article highlights their subversive potential to “enlighten...
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“I’m Washing My Dishes and Making a Movie”: Anne Charlotte Robertson and World-Making as Women’s Work
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 60–87.
Published: 01 December 2020
... it to the elision of gendered labor found in Stan Brakhage’s lyrical film Star Garden (US, 1974). The article charts two types of gendered labor Robertson engages in over the course of the project. First, as a document that tracks Robertson’s weight loss, a form of labor that she presents in a register...
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The Fold of Undetectable
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 167–173.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., a ‘requirement.’ And in the first place, I must have a
body because an obscure object lives in me.”3
The Garden and the Pond
1.
Is undetectability a cause for optimism?
2.
The word optimisme was first used in the February 1737 edition of
the Journal de Trévoux, an organ of Jesuit scholarship...
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Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948–1955
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 9–46.
Published: 01 January 1988
...Lynn Spigel Copyright © 1988 by the Johns Hopkins University Press 1988
Better Hom es and Gardens 31 (October 1953 ), p. 8
Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses
on Television and Domestic Space, 1948-1955
Lynn Spigel
Between the years 1948 and 1955...
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Notes on India Song
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 42–49.
Published: 01 December 1980
...
Stretter enters the private drawing room, looks out at the garden,” then
Delphne Seyng in fact entered and looked at the garden. But at the
same time she was listening to what was said about what she did. She there-
fore entered less, looked at the garden less, but by the same token
listened...
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Recovering the Lone Mother: Howards End As Aesthetic Anodyne
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 43–75.
Published: 01 May 2004
... an expanse of
picturesque undergrowth and lushly overgrown woodland.10 Ruth
Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave), the revered matriarch and owner of
Howards End, is paying homage to her garden. The meadow is
teeming with richly overgrown flowers, trees, and bushes, each of
which the camera lovingly caresses...
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Metropolis : Mother-City—“Mittler”—Hitler
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 137–164.
Published: 01 December 1986
... of
mechanized production. Above ground, in the Upper City, are the vast offices
of industrialist Joh Fredersen, master of Metropolis, who dictates his orders
to squads of secretaries; complementing the office building is an Edenic
Garden, where the masters’ sons frolic...
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Pandemic Stasis and Nonlinear Memory in Palestinian Short Films
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 165–186.
Published: 01 September 2024
... layering, in both short films, is not an aesthetic choice that occurs by happenstance. The sentences and narrations elbow their way onto the serene backdrops, bold reminders that while this quaint corner of Maha's apartment or Najjar's garden is homely, the world outside is less so, and its roots transcend...
FIGURES
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The Kids Are All Right , the Pursuits of Happiness, and the Spaces Between
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 111–135.
Published: 01 May 2014
...] an experiment in not just the conjugal (a lesbian couple
with two kids from a sperm donor) but also the inhabitation of a
domestic version of the (very classed, very Anglo) American dream
in the future perfect form (there, in the house and garden with the
white picket fence, two parents, two kids...
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Breathing in the Archives
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 181–185.
Published: 01 May 2007
...-
chéd) string unwound and wound back around a wooden spool,
familiar family narratives of loss and recovery play over and again
in this room with a garden view. One video is a documentation
of still photographs taken by Edmund Engelman (at the behest
of Freud’s colleague and friend August...
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Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in Far from Heaven
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 187–219.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Douglas Sirk.2 It refer-
ences most clearly Sirk’s 1955 film All That Heaven Allows (with its
story of an upper-middle-class woman [played by Jane Wyman]
who scandalizes her social circle through her romantic involve-
ment with her gardener [Rock Hudson]) but also brings in key
elements...
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The Americanization of Tsuru Aoki: Orientalism, Melodrama, Star Image, and the New Woman
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 129–157.
Published: 01 December 2005
... customs. Aoki’s carefully
tended Japanese garden, for example, represents a refuge from
the bustle of the modern world of work, as in a Picture Play article
titled “How to Hold a Husband: Mr. and Mrs. Hayakawa, in an
Oriental Lesson in Four Chapters.” A picture of the couple stroll-
ing...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
... woman as an emblem of national exceptionalism.
Frankie Wing (Victor Sen Yung), the mildly awkward emcee at a
Chinatown nightclub called the Celestial Gardens, introduces a
bevy of scantily clad, ostensibly international dancers — Chinese
women in costume — by singing in the persona...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 218–219.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Press, 2001.
Loshitzky, Yosefa. Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 2001.
Lu, Tonglin. Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and
Mainland China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
MacDonald, Scott. The Garden in the Machine...
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Trauma, Shame, and Men's Tears in The Manchurian Candidate
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., 1999), 28.
12. Kevin Ohi, “Of Red Queens and Garden Clubs: The Manchurian
Candidate, Cold War Paranoia, and the Historicity of the
Homosexual,” Camera Obscura 20, no. 1 (2005): 159.
13. Jared Gardner, “Bringing the Cold War Home: Reprogramming
American Culture in The Manchurian...
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The Front Lawn of Heaven: Landscape in Hollywood Melodrama circa 1945
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 119–159.
Published: 01 September 2010
...
scene just mentioned, the crashing ocean in which she swims near
the end of the film, and the central murder scene on the lake. In
contrast, Ruth moves more gently and does not engage in athletic
pursuits. Ruth is a gardener who is most frequently seen hoeing
and pruning plants; her nickname...
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A Taste for Shrinking: Movie Miniatures and the Unreal City
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 1–35.
Published: 01 September 2001
... through the door into the enchanted
garden. And here is the farthest I can see into the mystery of the
miniature: its separation from myself, its banishment of me. Hence the
sadness, the secret poignance, of dollhouses, model whaling ships, glass
animals, little automatons.44
In the film industry...
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Beyond the Gaze: Visual Fascination and the Feminine Image in Silent Hitchcock
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 77–111.
Published: 01 May 2004
... in the opening sequence
of Hitchcock’s directorial debut, The Pleasure Garden (UK/Germany,
1927). Before the investigative gaze declares its presence, the film
opens with a long shot of chorus girls running down a spiral stair-
case, preparing to make their entrance onto the stage. At this
point...
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