...Scott Balcerzak Known as the Sons of the Desert, the official Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appreciation society is unique in that its very structures lampoon the rank-and-file maleness promoted by “legitimate” fraternal orders such as the Freemasons. To understand the comedy duo's lasting cultural...

..., empowered or not. That the dialogue activated by video tends to reflect the incommensu- rability of positions of exchange is born out by the impact of another tape, “The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew,” which records the artist’s interview of two infamous, New Orleans gang leaders, Paul and Wayne...

... the video rmly on the far side of the s lesbian sex wars and the s queer turn. The video’s tone is just as dif cult to pin down: it is at once reverent and campy. K Hardy engages similar contradictions in her music video for the song “Sisters in the Struggle” by the Montreal- based group...

... (and almost always part of comedy): Oliver Hardy's exasperated glances at us, for exam- ple, and Groucho Marx's asides to the viewer Instances where a character in a non-comedy makes eye contact with the viewer are particularly rare. The most memorable exceptions occur in Peter...

..., ed. John Corner and Sylvia Hardy (London: Routledge, 1991), 178–93. 70 • Camera Obscura 7. Linda Williams incorporates a nascent cultural materialism when she writes about the importance of interrogating the contradictory positions of historical female spectators, positions...

... Arzner: Towards a Feminist Cinema, ed. Claire]ohnston, British Film Institute, London, 1975. "The Place of Women in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh", Pam Cook and Claire]ohnston, Raoul Walsh, ed. Phil Hardy, Edinburgh Film Festival 1974 publication, Vineyard PressLtd., Colchester, England...

... percussion ensemble in La Chinoise is from Legrand or Delerue.) A relatively constant trope in all the films is the mixing of elite culture (Bach, Mozart) with particularly crude pop tunes by the likes of FranGoise Hardy or Chantal I97 Goya. The sound-track scores then occupy...

... Walsh, ed. Phil Hardy (Colchester: Edinburgh Film Festival, 1974). 22  •  Camera Obscura 30. Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” 11. 31. David Bordwell, Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...

.... At 57", she towers over Mickey Rooney in her debut film, Andy Hardy's Double Life. Later, critics would comment on her "large and immaculate loveliness" or call her a "robust little star." Calling Williams a "big" woman doesn't necessarily blur gender boundaries...

... dancing and comedic teams-Rogers and Astaire, and Laurel and Hardy. In clear contrast with Irene Dunne, for example, who as Stanley Cave11 puts it made “neither too much nor too little” of her cultivated voice,22MacDonald (along with MGM’s music department) took full advantage of the cinema’s...

...); Judith Cohen and Constance B. Wofsy, “Heterosexual Transmission of HIV,” in AIDS Pathogenesis and Treatment, ed. Jay A. Levy (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1988) 135-157; Mary Guinan and Ann Hardy, “Epide- miology of AIDS in Women in the United States: 1981 through 1986...

... of human rights discourse in Morocco, see Susan Slyomovics, The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). 4. Paula Hardy, Mara Vorhees, and Heidi Edsall, Lonely Planet Morocco (London: Lonely Planet, 2005). The more recent edition...

..., Herman Mankiewicz, Charles Grayson, and Robert Hardy Andrews. 15. Art Cohn not only labored on the screenplay from 31 August to 29 December 1948 but appealed to the Screen Writers Guild regarding the screen credits. On Cohn’s contribution to the screenplay of The Woman on Pier...

... Holly and his own attitude toward her (and Kit). He claims that the narration points back to his own influences for the film, which were novels like the Hardy Boys series, Swiss Family Robinson, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and, particularly, the Nancy Drew series, and argues...

... France on Neo- Liberal Governmentality,” Economy and Society no. – Battlestar Galactica. “The Farm,” episode of Battlestar Galactica, writ. Carla Robinson, dir. Rod Hardy, The Sci- Fi Channel, August The failure of Cylon reproductive technologies mirrors...

... of the exploitation on Mars is a specifically geo-military one: “The first settlers [on Mars] had been a hardy breed, determined to create a colony that would be the envy of all the other planets. They had built a firm foundation, but the discovery of turbinium had undermined...

... and maneuverings, and while such authorial presence can be experi- enced as omniscient and powerful, it is also somewhat oppressive. Theorists of the coincidence plot in narrative fiction often return to the work of certain nineteenth-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy...

.... -. “Melodrama and the Woman’s Picture.” Gainsborough Melodrama. Edited by Sue Aspinall and Sue Harper. London: British Film Institute, 1983. Cook, Pam, and Claire Johnston. “The Place of Women in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh.” Raoul Walsh. Edited by Phil Hardy. Colchester: Vineyard Press...

... of Sweden; Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, Klaus Kinski, and Elke Som- mer of Germany; Maria Schell, Oskar Werner, Romy Schneider, Senta Berger, and Helmut Berger of Austria; Ursula Andress of Switzerland; Francisco Rabal and Fernando Rey of Spain...