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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2022
... spaces that engaged conversations of racial uplift, which often centered Black girlhood as an especially important site for assessing racial progress. Despite the evolving nature of media platforms themselves, the relationship between media and Black Americans continues to be a tool by which to measure...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2010
... on a more recent slate of girl-oriented consumer electronics: mediamaking gear for girls. Like the “pink software” of the girl games era, much of this “pink technology” relies on design strategies grounded in stereotypes of girls, girlhood, and girls' culture in order to attract female youth to historically...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Rebecca Wanzo Issa Rae's web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (2011–13), initially posted on YouTube, and Lena Dunham's Girls (HBO, 2012–) are examples of the precarious-girl comedy in the new millennium. These sitcoms depict women experiencing a prolonged girlhood produced not only...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to nostalgia and loss. It also reveals a moment of creative discovery and intensity that emerges in the durational aesthetic form for which Akerman's cinema is well known. The cinéfille is a form of becoming realized in cinema. girlhood cinephilia Chantal Akerman cinema history A teenage girl's face...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 129–165.
Published: 01 May 2017
...
the stage.”2
I argue that the relationship woven between movie-loving
girlhood and imitation provides us with precious insight into how
girls in the US related to screen actresses as well as how the film
industry ambiguously addressed its young female followers dur-
ing the foundational...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 197–227.
Published: 01 December 2001
... evi-
dent in two films in which Pickford refused to follow her own for-
mula of depicting the transition between girlhood freedom and
womanly submission to love. As the plain Cockney laundress in
Suds (dir. John Francis Dillon, 1920) and as the homely slave
Unity Blake in Stella Maris (dir. Neilan...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 121–154.
Published: 01 December 2017
...), The Gymnast (dir. Ned Farr,
US, 2006), Tomboy (dir. Céline Sciamma, France, 2011), Of Girls and
Horses (Von Mädchen und Pferden, dir. Monika Treut, Germany, 2014)
and Girlhood (Bande de filles, dir. Céline Sciamma, France, 2014) —
in which movement, spatiality, and contact arise as key thematic...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 188–190.
Published: 01 May 2003
....
Gateward, Frances, and Murray Pomerance, eds. Sugar, Spice, and
Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood. Detroit, MI: Wayne State
University Press, 2002.
Giberti, Bruno. Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876
International Exhibition in Philadelphia. Lexington: University
Press...
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 72–85.
Published: 01 September 1983
...
about girlhood, and why I could get it right. Insofar as I believe that the
best films are the ones made from the most personal motivations, I work
toward sound in my films that reaches toward inner language and sound.
LR: You have mentioned the novel Weymouth Sands byJohn Cowper...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2005
..., also dominates If 6 Was 9: Where does
time go?
(Un)Becoming-Woman
It is at this point that the question of becoming-woman surfaces.
The appeal of If 6 Was 9 to feminist spectators is clear in the
unbroken lines it traces—pace Freud—from the potentialities of
infancy and girlhood...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 69–98.
Published: 01 December 2012
... languages. Like
Shirley Temple dancing with Bill (“Bojangles”) Robinson, Durbin’s
diegetic performances suggest a culture beyond the borders of
American girlhood. Durbin’s pan- European identity enables the
semblance of high culture without explaining how she got that
way. Furthering...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and Thalia González, Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls Childhood (Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, 2017), www.law.georgetown.edu/poverty- inequality- center/wp- content /uploads/sites/14/2017/08/girlhood- interrupted.pdf; Aimee Meredith Cox, Shapeshifters: Black Girls...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 154–168.
Published: 01 January 1988
... interaction. The dance
scene, then, harkens back to an earlier form of girlhood pleasure, and it 16
reaffirms female bonding in this sense. But this form of pleasure is also
effectively distanced from lesbian desire.
Kate and Allie, because they belong to the continuing series, have op•
portunities...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
....
Benning documents a culture of girlhood that is even less
publicly visible than the marginal locations recorded in Forbidden
Love and Greetings because it is not public in any conventional
sense of the term. If one imperative of the gay and lesbian and the
emotional archive is to remake the relation...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 37–61.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in the world can be rendered powerless. In both scenes, African American femme subjects are depicted as being violently thrown out of the secure space of rep- 48 Camera Obscura resentation. The girls are killed not only in their church but in the midst of their girlhood. Annie Cooper is ejected (once more...
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 50–69.
Published: 01 September 1999
... conflation of "girlhood" itself with leisure and commodity con•
sumption. Moreover, insofar as his vision of what girls "want" is
predictably market-driven, it is difficult to read his allusions to "girl
power" (a la the English pop group the Spice Girls) as anything but
cynical. According to Roth, girls...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 12–31.
Published: 01 September 1995
... mandates, they also recreate and redefine
beauty culture. They do so because they have learned from girlhood
that there are very real consequences for their hairstyle choices.
The Importance of Being Like Barbie: Hair Play and Dolls
In her essay “Dyes and Dolls: Multicultural Barbie...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 149–175.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., “Lost in the ‘Dash,’” 32. 10. Milena Popova, “Tumblr Time: How Tumblr's Temporal Features Shape Community Memory and Knowledge,” in McCracken et al., Tumblr Book , 81–90. 11. Hannah McCann and Clare Southerton, “Repetitions of Desire: Queering the One Direction Fangirl,” Girlhood Studies...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2012
...
Girlhood,” Winterthur Portfolio no. Munson
was not the only model to get into the movies. On Evelyn
Nesbit, see Slater, “Fount of Inspiration,” – also see Janet
Staiger, Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 165–195.
Published: 01 May 2023
... womanhood following an already deliberately failed tomboy masquerade. In fact, this is the preferable frame within which transgressive femininity is sanctioned and even desirable as the fantasmatic stimulus for conservative pleasures. Enacting hetero-patriarchal ideas of tongue-in-cheek girlhood...
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