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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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Nonmaterial Overelaboration: Gender, Casting, and Camouflaged Labor in Pat Rocco's Promotional Travelogue
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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...
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The Sissy Boy, The Fat Ladies, and The Dykes: Queerness and/as Gender in Pee-wee's World
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 125–143.
Published: 01 September 1991
... destabilization but he can’t seem to bring himself
to do it explicitly. To be fair, Balfour’s reluctance probably arises from
an attempt to avoid stereotypically aligning gayness with the feminine/
effeminate and lesbianism with the masculine/butch. In any case, after
the first page, the word “gay...
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Smokin' Tokens: thirtysomething and TV's Queer Dilemma
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 192–211.
Published: 01 May 1994
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attempt and promote a ‘‘normalizing’’ queer (in this case gay) repre-
sentation, thirtysomething provides a key text for analyzing the origins
and the effectiveness of making gayness “ordinary.” I am interested in
analyzing this supposedly routinized representation of gay men on
thirtysomething...
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Unnatural Affinities: Me and Judy at the Lesbian Bar
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 127–133.
Published: 01 September 2007
...-identification with gay men. As if the only way to
have Judy, if you are lesbian, is to have her “like” a gay man? Try
that in a personal ad: “Gay man trapped in a lesbian body seeks
same for hot night of Judy Garland and Liza with a Z.” But how or
why does my intense liking of Judy get converted...
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AIDS and Gay Cinephilia
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 85–127.
Published: 01 May 2003
... the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, when television
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and the popular press consistently pathologized and demonized
gay men as “AIDS killers.” But alongside the numerous critiques
of AIDS hysteria in popular culture produced...
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The M-m-mama of Us All: Divas and the Cultural Logic of Late Ca(m)pitalism
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 11–37.
Published: 01 September 2007
... or conflict, family romance, orphans,
and so on — or that our theories should escape their own (self-)
theorization.
Certainly Mulvey cannot have been unaware that gay men
have a particular fascination with divas like Dietrich. Arguably,
gay appreciations of Dietrich have no place...
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Capote’s Swans: Effeminacy, Friendship, and Style in Douglas McGrath’s Infamous
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2017
... (dir. Douglas McGrath, US, 2006) and Capote (dir.
Bennett Miller, US, 2005), visualize historical alliances between
straight women and gay men and negotiate contemporary gay
cultural tensions through the figure of Capote. Specifically,Infa
mous, the focus of this essay, intervenes in long...
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Choreographing Homosexual Desire in Philippe Vallois's Johan
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
Published: 01 December 2013
... — even, perhaps especially,
gay porn — often subscribes to the phallogocentric economy. Hoc-
<fig. 2 cap.>Streets of London, Children of quenghem describes, and Vallois subsequently choreographs, a
Men (2006) form of movement that conjures a French tradition of performative...
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The Implications of How to Survive a Plague
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 123–151.
Published: 01 May 2016
... — and, subsequently, the splinter organization TAG
(Treatment Action Group) — played in the US HIV/AIDS epi-
demic between 1987 and 1996. It is also a film that can be ques-
tioned. When viewed in relation to other recent documentaries
dealing with gay men and AIDS in the US, How to Survive a Plague
raises...
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Diva Traffic and Male Bonding in Film: Teaching Opera, Learning Gender, Race, and Nation
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 47–73.
Published: 01 September 2004
... by affirming “gayness as a central
part of human history and culture, and gay men as central in the
formation of that culture.”25 Thus this list affirms gay existence
and Diego’s place in it, as well as proclaiming Cuban culture as an
inheritor of a classical European civilization that extends from...
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Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 290–291.
Published: 01 January 1992
... several AIDS education videos
including We Care and Women and AIDS (for The Gay Men’s Health Crisis).
Her recently completed dissertation, Re-Mediating AIDS: The Politics of Com-
munity Produced Media, considers the representation of AIDS in the main-
stream media, as well as the impact...
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Traumatic Postmodern Histories: Velvet Goldmine 's Phantasmatic Testimonies
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 157–185.
Published: 01 December 2004
... in and wish to replay, whether motivated
by desire or trauma or some indifferent combination.
The most powerful structure inVelvet Goldmine concerns
the nesting and interlocking triangles that connect women to gay
men and gay men to their mothers. This is the segment in which
the mousy assistant...
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Beyond Cosmo : AIDS, Identity and Inscriptions of Gender
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 20–77.
Published: 01 January 1992
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standings have shaped the ways we identify and classify those whom
HIV infects as well as its modes of transmission. In North America,
the initial appearance of the epidemic among gay men, generating
labels like “GRID” (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) and “the gay
plague...
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Conservative Narrativity, Queer Politics, and the Humor of Gay Stereotypes in Modern Family
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., The Cosby Show, and All- American Girl (ABC,
1994 – 95), and so too has its representation of gay men and lesbi-
ans. Brett Mills explains of the frequency of these debates, “If the
ways in which representation takes place matter, it’s only because
there is seen to be some disparity between...
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Mourning and Music in Blue Velvet
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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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“Wish We Didn't Have to Meet Secretly?”: Negotiating Contemporary Space in the Lesbian-Bar Documentary
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2001
... highlight some of the reasons for the lesbian bar’s perpetual
transient public status. In particular, by revealing that two former
lesbian bars currently function as a heterosexual bar adjacent
to the “gay ghetto” and a gay men’s beach bar, the participants...
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Envisioning the (W)hole World “Behind Things”: Denying Otherness in American Beauty
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 113–149.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., the film attempts to reclaim a direct,
unmediated access to a fixed paternal origin, an aim that point-
edly refuses the triangulation of desire. This refusal of a media-
tion by Otherness at the origin seeks to underwrite the idealizing,
though no less troubling, view that gay men ultimately can exceed...
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“Happy Ends” to Crises of Heterosexual Desire: Toward a Social Psychology of Recent German Comedies
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2000
... a good many laughs; however, particular crises of het-
erosexuality drive these narratives. Within the Comedy Wave, I
will explore extensively how homosexuality provides the “happy
ends” to the narratives, ends in both senses of the word. Here gay
men take...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., Maria Callas, Diana Ross, and Cruella de Vil.
The fraught cultural space of the male diva/divo — with its
potential for gender and sexuality instability for straight divos, as
well as for odious “diva wanna-be” comparisons for gay or queer
divos — has produced spectacles like Men...
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