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Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Audience, The Hays Office and Saturday Matinees
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 90–107.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Richard deCordova Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990
Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child
Audience, the Hays Office and Saturday Matinees
Richard deCordova
Everybody is talking about the movies, about
what...
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Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai?/What Is behind the Stardom? Madhuri Dixit, the Production Number, and the Construction of the Female Star Text in 1990s Hindi Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 129–159.
Published: 01 December 2015
... 2015 by Camera Obscura 2015 Indian cinema dance Bollywood Madhuri Dixit stardom Figure 1. Madhuri Dixit performs “Ek do teen” (“One Two
Three”) in Tezaab (Acid, dir. N. Chandra, India, 1988).
Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai?/
What Is behind the Stardom?
Madhuri Dixit, the Production...
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Pleasure Aesthetics: On the Art of Mika Rottenberg
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 71–102.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Shannan Hayes Abstract This essay develops a theory of Mika Rottenberg's video art by attending to both the content her work represents (neoliberalism's logic of gendered labor) and the formal characteristics by which her art affects (sensibly drawing the viewer in while resisting assimilation...
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Making Television Live: Mediating Biopolitics in Obesity Programming
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of television itself as an
engine of living; in short, television is rendered vital — alive — as it
promises to keep you alive. Such a promise reverberates with what
Laurie Ouellette and James Hay have influentially suggested is a
broader function of reality TV in the neoliberal governmentaliza-
tion...
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Volume Index
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 188–190.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Iyer
Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai?/What Is behind the Stardom?
Madhuri Dixit, the Production Number, and the Construction
of the Female Star Text in 1990s Hindi Cinema. No. 90:
pp. 129 – 59
Jennifer Lynn Jones and Brenda R. Weber
Reality Moms, Real Monsters: Transmediated...
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Cinemactivism: Film Reform, Spectatorship, and the Cleveland Cinema Club
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 33–65.
Published: 01 December 2013
...
what was shown on film but what functions film should have in
society, a debate enacted at the national and local levels. Through
Will Hays, spokesperson for the Motion Picture Producers and Dis-
tributors of America, the film industry consistently relied upon dis-
courses that, while heralding...
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The Politics of Third Way TV: Supernanny and the Commercialization of Public Service TV
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 65–89.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Laurie Ouellette, “Nanny TV,” 2005, FlowTV, flowtv
. o r g / 2 0 0 5 / 0 3 / n a n n y - t v ; James Hay, “Overhaulin’ TV and
Government (Thoughts on the Political Campaign to Pimp Your
Ride,” 2005, FlowTV, fl o w t v . o r g / 2 0 0 5 / 0 2 / o v e r h a u l i - n t v
86...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 227–229.
Published: 01 January 1988
... Rex by James Hay. Indiana
University Press, 1987. $14.95.
The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text by Reda Bensmaia. University of
Minnesota Press, 1987. $10.95.
Popular Culture in America edited by Paul Buhle. University of Minnesota Press,
1987...
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Intimate Connections: Alternative Communication Threads in Nina Sobell’s Video Performances and Installations (1974–82)
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 39–75.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Makanna. Courtesy of Lovely Music, Ltd. 54 Camera Obscura inner landscape of his body, dancer Alex Hay staged a performance called Grass Field in 1966. In a meticulous fashion, he placed one hundred numbered pieces of flesh- colored cloth on the stage while wearing electrodes on his head and back...
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Reformers and Spectators: The Film Education Movement in the Thirties
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 1990
.... The Motion Picture Research Council’s support for government regulation
of blockbooking is discussed in a typewritten memo initialed by Will
Hays, 26 Sept. 1934, and Louis Nizer letter to Dr. Stephen S. Wise, 23
April 1934, Hays Collection, Indiana State Library...
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Diasporic Erotic: Love, Loss, and the Copy
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Vietnamese
American director Tony Bui’s Three Seasons (Viet Nam/US, 1999),
Hai (Duong Don), a Vietnamese cyclo driver and the film’s pro-
tagonist, arrives at a seemingly deserted boulevard with his pas-
senger, Lan (Zoe Bui), a young woman in a red blindfold and
a schoolgirl’s white ao dai. We learn...
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Editorial
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 4–7.
Published: 01 May 1990
... of desire.
Richard decordova’s “Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Au-
6 dience, The Hays Office and Saturday Matinees” deals with the largely
ignored topic of children spectators. Taking up the postcolonial critique
of ethnography, deCordova claims that current ethnographic...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 373–377.
Published: 01 December 1989
...: The Ameurunculus Letters by Michael Phillipson. Rout-
ledge, 1989. $9.95.
Question and Answer: Forms of Dialogic Understanding by Hans Robert
Jauss. Edited, translated and with a foreword by Michael Hays. University of
Minnesota Press, 1989. $16.95.
The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek. Verso...
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Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 50–69.
Published: 01 September 1999
.... Given its import•
ance to my argument about Clueless's own construction of national
desire, I quote the "Haiti" speech in full:
So OK, like, right now for example, the Haitians [pronounced "Hay-tee•
ins"] need to corne to America. But some people are all, "What about...
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Sex on the Shore: Care and the Ethics of License in Jersey Shore
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 101–127.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... Through makeovers, lifestyle pedagogies,
and what Laurie Ouellette and James Hay call “life interventions,”
reality TV can in many ways be defined as a mode of public inter-
vention that aims at private transformation.23 For the Greeks and
Romans, according to Foucault, the care of the self...
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“The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 95–121.
Published: 01 May 2000
... for dealing with postwar racial tensions.2 Made
during the Hays Code’s ban on the representation of misce-
genation, Pinky confronts the issue of interracial relations more
overtly than many other films of its time by focusing its narrative...
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Index to camera obscura /l9, 20–21 (volume 7); 22, 23, 24 (volume 8); and 25–26, 27 (volume 9)
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 179–187.
Published: 01 September 1991
...
Response to Questionnaire on “The Female Spectator.” No. 20-21; pp,
137-141.
decordova, Richard
Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Audience, the Hays Office and
Saturday Matinees. No. 23; pp. 91-107.
DiPiero, Thomas
The Patriarch is Not (Just) a Man. No. 25-26; pp. 101-124...
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Breaking at the Edges: Carolee Schneemann's Desires for Dance
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 165–173.
Published: 01 September 2021
... “could be performed outdoors in the grass, or in the snow,” as Schneemann notes (33). Schneemann created a set of instructions for the performers in Newspaper Event that corresponded to various parts of one's anatomy: spine (Arlene Rothlein); legs-face (Ruth Emerson); shoulders-arms (Deborah Hay...
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Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... © 2014 by Camera Obscura 2014 Figure 1. Haizao (Li Nian) and her older sister Haiping
(Hai Qing) talk about Haizao’s future in the big city in the
small room that Haiping rents. Dwelling Narrowness (Wo ju,
syndicated [China], 2009)
Slaves of the House and
Victims of Love: New Life...
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Nguyễn Trinh Thi's Landscape Series #1 (2013) and the Limits of Search and Destroy
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 90–117.
Published: 01 May 2025
... and Writing,” Counterpoints 85 (1998): 113–30. 40. Nguyễn, “Filmmaking as Resistant Poetic Amplitude,” 101–2. 41. I have discussed these works at length in my dissertation and in arts criticism for e-flux . Jacinda S. Tran, “An-My Lê’s ‘Between Two Rivers/Giữa Hai Giòng Sông/Entre Deux...
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