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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 73–89.
Published: 01 January 1990
...Heide Schlüpmann Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Melodrama and Social Drama in the
Early German Cinema
Heide Schliipmunn
During the period from 1911-12, film producers made a determined
effort to adapt the cinema to the aesthetic cosmos...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Randall Halle Camera Obscura 2000 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Randall Halle received his degree in German studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is assistant professor...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 41–73.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Lutz Koepnick Camera Obscura 2000 Lutz Koepnick teaches in the German Department at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power (1999) and of Nothungs Modernität: Wagners Ring und die Poesie der Politik im neunzehnten...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 1–19.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Hester Baer; Angelica Fenner Setting the stage for this special issue of Camera Obscura , the introduction makes the case for German cinema as a renewed site for the theorization of women’s film authorship and feminist film production today. German cinema presents an especially generative case...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 147–155.
Published: 01 December 2018
... film authorship, namely: feminist structures (WIFTG), demands for a quota system (PQF), and a grassroots feminist mentoring collective of film school graduates (ITW). Copyright © 2018 Camera Obscura 2018 gender parity German film industry quota system film collectives Verband der...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Olivia Landry Abstract The 2020 Netflix drama series Unorthodox draws on tropes from a vexed archive of transcultural cinema, in particular Turkish German cinema. Through the frame of the captivity narrative, this essay examines how the series about a young Hasidic Jewish woman who escapes her...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 75–101.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Priscilla Layne Between 1990 and 1997, Auma Obama, half-sister of Barack Obama, studied at the Berlin Film and Television Academy (DFFB). For her final project, Obama wrote and directed All That Glitters (1993), a short film about Wendo, a Kenyan woman living in Bayreuth, married to a white German...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 49–73.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Mary Hennessy This article retraces a genealogy from the contemporary Berlin School back to German feminist film culture of the 1970s. It focuses on two films with female protagonists: Helke Sander’s watershed feminist film of the New German Cinema, Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit—Redupers...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 129–145.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Hester Baer; Angelica Fenner In this conversation, which took place in Berlin, Germany, in August 2017, filmmaker Tatjana Turankskyj discusses recent developments in Pro Quote Film, the feminist initiative she cofounded with several other women filmmakers to promote gender parity in German film...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 103–131.
Published: 01 September 2019
... not a revolutionary in the tradition of Luxemburg, the German-Jewish political thinker Arendt is an interesting choice for a left-leaning, post-Holocaust German woman director. Yet Arendt presents a paradox for feminists due to the contradictions embedded in her works and public pronouncements. The article examines...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 103–127.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., they are nonetheless geopolitically and historically specific, consistently focusing on the awkwardness of white, heterosexual, middle-class, professional German women and what Lauren Berlant refers to as the “cruel optimism” that renders their seemingly privileged existence precarious. Ade distinguishes herself...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 21–47.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Faye Stewart This study traces shared national narratives about women, work, and precarity in films made by East German women directors in the state-run DEFA studios before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A comparative analysis of Evelyn Schmidt’s Das Fahrrad ( The Bicycle , 1982) and Helke...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 133–163.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the period commonly referred to as the German Autumn (1977). Through a close reading of the film's formal structure, this essay argues that Journeys from Berlin/1971 represents Rainer's attempt to imagine a feminist counterpublic in the form of a queer “archive of feelings.” This essay traces the film's...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 99–141.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Richard W. McCormick Camera Obscura 2001 Richard W. McCormick teaches German film and culture at the University of Minnesota. He has published on German feminist cinema, postwar German cinema, and Weimar cinema and is the author of Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 108–143.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Heidi Schlipphacke Camera Obscura 2006 Heidi Schlipphacke is an assistant professor of German and European studies at Old Dominion University. She has published essays on critical theory, as well as on issues of gender, aesthetics, and cultural translation in the European Enlightenment...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Barbara Mennel; Amy Ongiri Camera Obscura 2000 Barbara Mennel is an assistant professor of film and German in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has published on the films of Monika Treut and Chantal Akerman...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 105–149.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Angelica Fenner Camera Obscura 2000 Angelica Fenner is a lecturer in cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She recently completed a dissertation on the representation of Afro-Germans in early West German cinema and has published several...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 47–75.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Randall Halle Camera Obscura 2001 Translation by Sabine Czylwik Randall Halle received his degree in German Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Rochester. He has published...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 177–201.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Margaret McCarthy Camera Obscura 2000 Margaret McCarthy is assistant professor of German at Davidson College, where she teaches twentieth-century German literature and film. She has published articles on Ingeborg Bachmann, Jutta Brückner, Luc Besson, and G. W. Pabst. At present she...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 106–128.
Published: 01 May 1995
... Riefenstahl,
tainted genius, has become topical to cinematic and cultural study yet
again with the publication of Riefenstahl's autobiography in German
in 1987 and the subsequent release of the English translation. Addi-
tionally, a new documentary on the auteur by Ray Muller, Die Macht
der Bilder Leni...
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