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Self-Health and Healthcaring
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 128–135.
Published: 01 May 1981
...Stephen Grosz; Bruce McAuley © 1981 by Camera Obscura 1981 Healthcaring From Our End ofthe Speculum
Self-Health and Healthcaring
Stephen Grosx and Bruce McAuky
Self-Health (1974) and Healthcuring (1976) are two important films
that present a feminist perspective on women’s...
Journal Article
Contagion and the Boundaries of the Visible: The Cinema of World Health
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2002
... in the Audiovisual Discourse of World Health” for publication.
Contagion and the Boundaries
of the Visible: The Cinema of
World Health
Kirsten Ostherr
World Health and the Dialectics of
Visibility and Invisibility
Even a cursory glance at contemporary US film and television
reveals...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., regarding what we see as some of the most significant questions facing studies of reality television, especially the specific studies dealing with health, housewives, “hot bodies,” and “hoochie mamas” that are included in “Project Reality TV.” © 2015 by Camera Obscura 2015 This content is made freely...
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Pandemic Stasis and Nonlinear Memory in Palestinian Short Films
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 165–186.
Published: 01 September 2024
... framework of structural violence that determines individual movement, remembrance, access to health care, and living conditions. In the two short films analysed in this article, Lifting the Mask (سقط القناع) by Najwa Najjar (Palestine, 2020) and MAY: Locked Down with “Eva” in Nakba Anniversary (أيّار...
FIGURES
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Women, X-rays, and the Public Culture of Prophylactic Imaging
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 18–54.
Published: 01 May 1992
... 46,000 US women each year. Why this federal desig-
nation of the DOD as guardian of women’s health? This conflation of
defense against disease and national defense is more than a little
disturbing. Indeed, recent events suggest that, when the military has
considered women at all, it has...
Journal Article
Introduction
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 4–19.
Published: 01 January 1992
... and medicine are attempting to manage them. A model is
provided by the media savvy and technological sophistication of such
groups as ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), the National
Black Women’s Health Project, and WHAM (Women’s Health Action
Mobilization); their highly visual and theatrical...
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The Politics of Breast Cancer
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 156–177.
Published: 01 January 1992
... in this country in the past year. In
1991, roughly 175,000 women will discover that they have breast
cancer. And the numbers, inexplicably, keep going up.
With roots in both the feminist health movement of the 70s, which
urged and enabled women to learn about their bodies and become
active...
Journal Article
The End of the Road : Gender, the Dissemination of Knowledge, and the American Campaign Against Venereal Disease during World War I
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 91–129.
Published: 01 May 1992
... and the US Public Health Service (USPHS)
contracted with the Public Health Film Company for the film’s addi-
tional use in commercial theaters. In order “to protect the films from
misuse,” ASHA copyrighted them and the USPHS stipulated screening
conditions “to safeguard the films...
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Dangerous Spaces: Safe
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 125–155.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Fernando Valley home by driving. Only in
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her car can she move safely, free from harm, between the more
affluent areas of the city. In the course of her everyday life, Carol
drives to visit her nearby friend Linda (Susan Norman), to the
local health club’s aerobic classes...
Journal Article
Introduction
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 4–17.
Published: 01 May 1992
... cancer-how these
diseases came to be seen by specific imaging technologies and in turn
by the public. TB X-ray screening programs were instituted in the form
of a multivalent public gaze whose agents included the health care
industry, public health agencies, communities...
Journal Article
Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 244–246.
Published: 01 May 1992
... completing her third year of medical school and is beginning her
dissertation on the history of East African women’s health development and
family planning programs.
Brian Driscoll is systems and media programmer for the Dartmouth Medical
School Interactive Media Laboratory. He developed...
Journal Article
Beyond Cosmo : AIDS, Identity and Inscriptions of Gender
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 20–77.
Published: 01 January 1992
... and nature of the problem, and track change. To
accomplish these functions, public health surveillance of illness and
disease typically wants to know two things: who gets sick and how
they get sick, thus yielding the classification of each case of disease
into a “risk group” and a “mode...
Journal Article
Making Television Live: Mediating Biopolitics in Obesity Programming
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
...-
tions between one’s current body mass index and a diverse range of
potential illnesses and health problems — heart disease, diabetes,
hypertension, osteoarthritis, and, of course, death itself.1 Obesity
slides between what one is and what one may become, between the
actual and the actuarial...
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More Than “Just Talk”: The Chelsea Picture Station in the 1970s
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 125–133.
Published: 01 May 2013
... a fusion of theory and practice
and aimed to enact film’s “radical aspiration,” to use Annette
Michelson’s influential term, in concrete ways.8 The 1970s saw
the organizing of feminist collectives in numerous areas — health
care (Healthright), publishing (the Feminist Press), radio (Radio
Free...
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AIDS in the City : Melodrama and the Social Marketing of HIV Prevention in Francophone West Africa
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
... results from and effects the prevention of HIV. The series
conflates narrative resolution with policy solution. Drawing on the
techniques of social marketing and its consumerist ethos, the tele-
vision series depicts behavior change as necessary for preserving
the health of the individual...
Journal Article
Editorial
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 3–5.
Published: 01 May 1981
... introduction both to
Metz’s recent work and to the scope of his contribution to film
theory.
In a review of two important films that have come out of the
women’s movement, Self-Health and Healthcaring, Stephen Grosz and
Bruce McAuley argue that the “alternative...
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A Review of “Imaging Techniques in Reproductive Medicine”
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 240–243.
Published: 01 May 1992
.... Disadvantages include the high cost and
the relative unfamiliarity of many health care providers with MRI.
The final modality discussed is ultrasound and doppler ultrasound.
These techniques have less spatial resolution than either CT scans or
MRI, but images can be obtained very quickly...
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Camera Obscura Questionnaire on Alternative Film Distribution
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 157–175.
Published: 01 May 1979
... in advertizing, basically focusing on
advertizing as the new pornography of this culture.
The range of subject matter is women’s health, rape and vio-
lence against women, an alternative health system of the
People’s Republic, labor history, violence against women...
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Mission Accomplished? Profits and Programming at the Network for Women
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 212–241.
Published: 01 May 1994
... on
women’s health, the insidious nature of this type of corporate address
becomes clear.
A Healthy Challenge: The National Nutrition Test was a half-hour
television special created for Lifetime by the corporate marketing division
of ConAgra’s Healthy Choice foods...
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Why Isn't Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy ? Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.'s And I Do Survive
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
Published: 01 September 2010
... their
responses to their very specific situations?
Hima B.: HIV/AIDS impacts all our lives. Half of those who
are living with HIV are women, and 80 percent of the infected
women are women of color. So I feel the urgency to talk about
women’s health issues. I’m currently developing an online living
HIV...
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