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Is it Fake?: Black Women's Hair as Spectacle and Spec(tac)ular
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 12–31.
Published: 01 September 1995
...Deborah R. Grayson Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 My head. Photo by Charles Moore.
Is it Fake?: Black Women’s Hair as Spectacle
and Spec(tac)ular
Deborah R. Grayson
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory...
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Self-suspension in reverse. Ageha's hair flows up as she hangs upside down....
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in Self-Suspension in Frames: Hito Steyerl's Lovely Andrea
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 10. Self-suspension in reverse. Ageha's hair flows up as she hangs upside down. Lovely Andrea (dir. Hito Steyerl, Japan/Austria/Germany, 2007). Courtesy of the artist
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Shampoo: Editing, Advertising, and Codes of Modesty on Saudi Arabian Television
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 91–121.
Published: 01 September 2011
... without a veil, adapting their advertising accordingly. While this may seem straightforward, the complexity lies in the extent to which women's hair is considered “unrepresentable” in practice and in the paradoxes of presenting the veil on-screen while still demonstrating the product's benefits...
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Hairgate! TV's Coiffure Controversies and Lesbian Locks
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 166–172.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Controversies
and Lesbian Locks
Julie Levin Russo
Hillary Rodham Clinton is well acquainted with the travails of
divadom. In her 2001 commencement address at Yale University,
she told the graduating seniors, “The most important thing that
I have to say today is that hair matters. . . . Pay...
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The Color of Jeanne Dielman
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 216–218.
Published: 01 May 1979
... is provided by her reddish-brown hair.
Various other aspects of the set and the chief character’s clothing
make up the second half of this muted two-color palette. The hall is
papered in a blue-gray figured wallpaper. The lutchen has blue-green
curtains. The walls of the bedroom are painted green...
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Mika Rottenberg's Productive Bodies
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 41–73.
Published: 01 September 2010
... with fantastically long hair are put to work in inventive,
surreal re-creations of the industrial assembly line. Critics often
underscore the motifs of labor and manufacture in Rottenberg’s
videos, invoking Taylorism, the “sweatshop,” “a blue-collar work
ethic,” and “the sense of claustrophobia induced...
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Introduction
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 6–11.
Published: 01 September 1995
... to the importance of naming and politicizing representations of
Black women in visual culture.
In “Is it Fake? Black Women’s Hair as Spectacle and Spec(tac)ular,”
which serves to introduce the range of issues these essays confront,
Deborah Grayson describes the ways Black women’s hair is read...
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Made in Movieland: Imitation, Agency, and Girl Movie Fandom in the 1910s
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 129–165.
Published: 01 May 2017
... coiffed
hair. The girl stands erect, posing for a snapshot that crops her at
the thighs, but a defiant look flutters on her otherwise stoic face.
In the background, large houses commingle with bare, spidery
trees. It is autumn in Columbus, Ohio. Under the photograph, a
caption reads: “Miss Mary...
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Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in Progressive “White” Cinema: Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa and The Crying Game
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 32–48.
Published: 01 September 1995
..., personalities, hair, coloring, and sexualized dress.
Beauty as the beast: The tragic-murderous “mulatta”
Adventure or “thrill” in cinema is often linked to violence. The very
existence of the “mulatta” suggests and represents sexual violence.
Tapping into the multiple...
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Rapunzel
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 231–232.
Published: 01 May 1979
... suggests the complexities of
the mother-daughter relationship.
The film, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair, by dissecting, re-telling,
and re-interpreting the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale, attempts to bring
out not only the symbolism of the story but to transform it. Each
re...
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Dead Woman Glowing: Karla Faye Tucker and the Aesthetics of Death Row Photography
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2004
.... Yet even if we compare the “objec-
tive” mug shots of these two women, a number of differences strike
the eye (figure 5). Tucker has long, curly hair; Buenoano has
short, unevenly cropped, “slicked-back” hair, recalling the ubiq-
uitous criminological stereotype of the “mannish” female inmate
who...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2007
...,” and who challenges her film and theater audiences to be
as focused and subtle in their reception of her as she is in her per-
formance style. But highbrow, middlebrow, or lowbrow, all divas, at
one point or another, seem to be judged by their hair. Contemplat-
ing the coifs of divas real...
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Empowering Patients: Using Interactive Video Programs to Help Patients Make Difficult Decisions
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 224–232.
Published: 01 May 1992
... use to cope with
side effects of treatment such as hair loss or nausea. These segments
can occur in any order, so that patients can decide whether to see the
“good news” or the “bad news” first, or to skip them altogether. 3)
Throughout the program, especially after...
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Staggering Toward Modern Times: The Video Art of Max Almy
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 3–17.
Published: 01 December 1984
... hair cut at Sassoon’s, will you love me this
relatively harmless proposition becomes perverse and untenable when the
same female voice asks: “If I fuck you, will you give me a one-woman
show?”The sequence ends with the woman asking: “If I fuck you, will it
be worth it
In a similar mode...
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Greta Garbo and Silent Cinema: The Actress As Art Deco Icon
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 83–111.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., her hair slicked back,
wearing a bold white-and-black striped fur collar. The café stage
Greta Garbo and Silent Cinema • 85
is done in a contemporary mode, with concentric arches and a tiered
stairway. After watching the performance, Leonora approaches
one...
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Sex and the Singled Girl: Queer Representation and Containment in Single White Female
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 31–68.
Published: 01 January 1996
... motivations, through
much of the film; she does not become unrecuperable until very near
the end. Inevitably, attraction and revulsion commingle in our reception
of this representation of a violent and/or lesbian woman.
Of Footwear and Hair Dye
The relationship between AlIi...
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Paralysis in Motion: Jerry Lewis's Life as a Man
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 194–205.
Published: 01 May 1988
....
The film is a fantasy of metamorphosis: where the nasal-toned and
easily cowed Kelp is colorless and bland, constantly attired in a white
lab coat, hair combed forward over his face, Love is the embodiment
of cool with his flashy jackets, slicked-up hair, throaty voice...
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Sylvester
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 140–143.
Published: 01 September 2007
... wings
and an egret-feather headdress and singing an old Ethel Waters
tune while the hippie children, passing jugs of wine and joints,
go wild. Cut to Sylvester, backed by a band of scruffy, white, long-
haired rock and rollers, singing Neil Young and Leonard Cohen
tunes; wipe to Sylvester...
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Star Hole (for Courtney Love)
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 154–157.
Published: 01 September 2007
... as Love, lip-synching “Softer Softest” with baby barrettes
in my hair while staggering across a stage in a torn baby-doll dress:
“I got a blister from / touching every thing I see / The abyss opens
up / It steals everything from me.” Such sensitivity from a woman
who everyone swore...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in the mise-en-scène and goes to
great lengths to provide them with their own history and emo-
tional density. Take Alicia’s hair clip, for example. We never see Ali-
cia wear it, but we see it at least three times in the film: first, when
Benigno steals it from her room and puts it in his...
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