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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 151–193.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Christian culture. 05-Hendershot.sh 150-193 =44pg 4/18/01 4:02 PM Page 150
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Holiness Codes and Holy
Homosexuals: Interpreting Gay
and Lesbian Christian Subculture...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 85–127.
Published: 01 May 2003
... Journal of Film Studies and Millennium Film Journal . Still from Decodings (dir. Michael Wallin, US, 1988)
AIDS and Gay Cinephilia
Roger Hallas
In Positiv, the opening short film in Mike Hoolboom’s six-part
compilation film Panic Bodies (Canada, 1998), the viewer is faced...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 165–195.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Brett Farmer Camera Obscura 2005 Brett Farmer is a senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships (Duke University Press, 2000) and is currently writing a new book on gay diva...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
... libertine modernity. By entwining here the notions
of gay sexuality and migration into a form of “queer diaspora,”22 I
want to suggest that this form unhinges the framework of Chinese
melodrama, as the latter cannot contain the discursive excess that
gayness demands.
The opening voice-over...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Tison Pugh Despite the progressive ambitions announced in its title, the sitcom Modern Family (ABC, 2009–) has been excoriated by many viewers for its purported conservatism and reactionary politics. In particular, the program’s treatment of homosexuality, evident in the story line of gay couple...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 144–153.
Published: 01 September 2007
... voice to gayness — the common interpretative claim
made of most other queer icons — as brings it into actual being.2
From Wayne Kostenbaum’s arch assertion that “Julie Andrews
prepared me for . . . homosexuality” and Michael Musto’s mock
pronouncement that “The Sound of Music made me gay...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 120–131.
Published: 01 September 1983
...Larry Horne; John Ramirez
Conference Report
The UCLA Gay and Lesbian Media Conference
Larry Horne andJohn Ramirez
The UCLA Gay and Lesbian Media Conference took place over three days
in]anuary, 1983. It was preceded by a weeklong program offilms intended...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 59–79.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Julia Vassilieva This article explores the work of young Russian female director Valeria Gai Germanika. Germanika has gained a public profile over the last ten years through documentary shorts such as Sisters ( Syostry , 2005), Girls ( Devochki , 2005), and Boys ( Malchiki , 2007); feature film...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2017
... that labors to define gayness as primarily sexual rather than
cultural.11 Halperin mourns this passing into mainstream respect-
ability, particularly as mainstreaming has meant denial of the aes-
thetic, creative, and distinctive aspects of gay culture — what he
calls “the unique genius in being...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 89–117.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Finley Freibert Abstract Pat Rocco's ONE Adventure , a promotional film for a gay men's nonprofit's tourism subsidiary, documented early 1970s US‐Europe homophile coalitions but also incorporated softcore sequences for commercial appeal to a gay male market. Yet Rocco's disavowal of pornography...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and multilayered network of mutual dependency and interactive/interpassive reconfigurations. The article asks in what ways the Twilight films construct or imagine their targeted audience — teenage girls, Twilight moms, and gay men — and how such desires are then consumed, multiplied, and circulated on textual...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
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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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2013
... direct bearing on gayness,” instrumental-
izing the media archive for a gay agenda.9 This sort of instrumen-
talization has taken a variety of forms over the intervening decades.
A central axis point of late, however, has been the engagement with
the homonormativity of neoliberalism...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Susan Potter Abstract The Australian gay liberation movement has been memorialized on-screen only relatively recently, with the production of the self-described telemovie Riot (dir. Jeffrey Walker, Australia, 2018). A fictional narrative based on the real-world activism that led to the first Sydney...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 137–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... as a strategy for the containment of desire, since desire itself is already constituted through imitation. In other words, one cannot fail to become—if only in a partial, incomplete way—what one imitates. Frank's “becoming gay” would appear to drive his violent acting out against men, women, and music...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2008
... popular to have appealed exclusively to a gay audience. Despite their evident camp value today, peplum films appear to have been principally aimed at, and consumed by, straight adolescent males. The peplum largely adopts three strategies, not always consistent among themselves, to address its problematic...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., by working-class women, feminists, and lesbian and gay activists. Eschewing recognition of such complexities, the narrative drive of the film relies on a temporal and spatial transition that places familial reconciliation in a postconflictual present and in a location far removed from the communal...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 145–153.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and fabrications that are resorted to by those groups convinced that queers should side uncritically with Israel on all issues, simply because of Israel's recent pro-gay stances on various issues. The central portion of “Pinkface” presents Greyson's response to the op-eds and full-page ads of noted Canadian...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 121–154.
Published: 01 December 2017
... on offer in cinema and how they might speak to, and resonate with, queer habits, alignments, and tendencies. In doing so, it gestures beyond a concern with representation, (in)visibility, identity, and related concerns around appropriation and queer readings that have historically dominated studies of gay...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 123–151.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Richard C. Cante This essay discusses How to Survive a Plague (dir. David France, US, 2012) as a deep rumination on the natures of action and agency from the individual to the collective, especially gay male action and agency when they are approached intersectionally. It takes the film...
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