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Berlin Alexanderplatz 's Serial Women

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Jill Richards
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 67–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2352158
Published: 01 December 2013
... Schmid), Fränze (Helen Vita), Cilly (Annemarie Düringer), Trude (Irm Hermann), the Whore of Babylon (uncredited), the waitress (Elke Haltaufderheide), and Mieze (Barbara Sukowa). Across successive episodes, these minor characters offer a version of seriality inside the serial form that is Berlin...
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Arnait Video Productions: Inuit Women's Collective Filmmaking, Coalitional Politics, and a Globalized Arctic

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Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerståhl Stenport
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 153–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3662066
Published: 01 December 2016
...Scott MacKenzie; Anna Westerståhl Stenport Arnait Video Productions is one of the most aesthetically diverse feminist collectives in the world. Founded in 1991 in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, by Madeline Piujuq Ivalu and Marie-Hélène Cousineau as the first women's Inuit filmmaking collective, Arnait...
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“How much did you pay for this place?” Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman

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Aviva Briefel, Sianne Ngai
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 69–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-1_37-69
Published: 01 January 1996
... the concerns of the traditional horror film: the everyday reality of urban violence in low-income neighborhoods. The plot centers around the anthropological research of two graduate students at the University of Illinois: Helen Lyle, a blonde woman, and her partner...
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Recovering the Lone Mother: Howards End As Aesthetic Anodyne

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E. Kim Stone
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 43–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-19-1_55-43
Published: 01 May 2004
...E. Kim Stone Camera Obscura 2004 E. Kim Stone is an assistant professor of postcolonial studies at Illinois State University. Her current book project is entitled Unexpected Consequences: Single Women and Globalization . Helena Bonham Carter as Helen Schlegel in Howards End (dir...
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The Body of Voyeurism: Mapping a Discourse of the Senses in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom

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Elena del Río
Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 115–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-15-3_45-115
Published: 01 December 2001
..., and language represented in the character of his neighbor and tenant Mrs. Stephens (Maxine Audley), Helen’s mother. 04-del Rio.sh 114-149=36pg 4/18/01 4:01 PM Page 123 The Body of Voyeurism • 123 The Paternal Legacy...
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The Unicorn and the Larva: In Conversation

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Anuj Vaidya, Tejal Shah
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 154–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631619
Published: 01 December 2020
... both interested in pushing the aesthetics of camp to its logical extremes. And I had already started working on my Helen project Bad Girl with a Heart of Gold (BGHG, 2011) at that time. Anyone who knows Bollywood knows Helen. Throughout the sixties and seventies, she was the feline fatale, cat...
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Medusa in the Land of Oz: The Female Spectator in Australia

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Barbara Creed
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 53–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-53
Published: 01 December 1989
... ( 1983 ): 89 –100. Freiberg , Freda . “Survival and Celebration,” Photofile 4 , no. 2-3 ( 1986 ): 21 –24. Grace , Helen . “Violation—A Suitable Case for Treatment,” Filmnews 11 , no. 2-3 ( 1981 ): 11 . Grace , Helen . “The Repetition of Difference,” Photofile 3...
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Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly

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Ben Singer
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 90–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-1_22-90
Published: 01 January 1990
..., and freedom to explore novel experiences outside the domestic sphere. A few typical titles immediately reveal this central anomaly: The Adventures of Do- rothy Dare, A Daugbter of Daring, The Exploits of Elaine, The Haz- ards of Helen, Ruth of the Rockies, Pearl of the Army, A Lass...
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The Perverted Ancestry of the Antiheroine: Bad Mothers and Unruly Daughters in Sharp Objects and Mare of Easttown

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Eleanore Gardner, Alyson Miller
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 63–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11024070
Published: 01 May 2024
... and her mother, Helen, differs greatly from the disturbing dynamic between Camille and Adora, it is a bond that is undeniably fractured by a traumatic family history and the recent death of Mare's son, Kevin, by suicide. Mare of Easttown is profoundly concerned with the complexities, joys, and tragedies...
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Technologies of Early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body

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Jennifer M. Bean
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 9–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-16-3_48-9
Published: 01 December 2001
... that Grace Cunard had “started after the ‘Queen of the Serial’ honor with Pearl White” and that “Helen Holmes is right on her trail.”10 In 1919, Photoplay reporter Frank Bruner numbered “Pearl White, Ruth Roland and Marie Walcamp” as stars who “have a following, extending from Oshkosh to Timbuc- too...
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Vaginal Davis's Gospel Truths

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Marc Siegel
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 151–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-027
Published: 01 May 2008
... the country, so no one knew who she was including Andy Warhol who took a Polaroid of me, and mumbled something about me looking like Helen/ Harry Morales. A year later I saw his Polaroid of Helen/Harry, and I was insulted thinking she looked like a Puerto Rican version of my friend, the drag...
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“Happy Ends” to Crises of Heterosexual Desire: Toward a Social Psychology of Recent German Comedies

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Randall Halle
Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 1–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-15-2_44-1
Published: 01 September 2000
.... Many of them place their hopes, in the romantic spirit of capi- talism, on the imagined financial windfall that will result when their talent is finally discovered. Women’s economic conditions appear particularly precarious. Helen (Carin C. Tietze...
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The Minor Transnationalism of Queer Asian Cinema: Female Authorship and the Short Film Format

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Olivia Khoo
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2408507
Published: 01 May 2014
... films is especially pertinent to queer Asian cinema, which remains, as Helen Hok-­Sze Leung notes, predominantly a festival category, unlike New Queer Cinema in the United States, which was rapidly mainstreamed.15 Queer Asian cinema produced by women filmmakers can be located between...
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Books Received

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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 277–278.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-14-1-2_40-41-277
Published: 01 May 1997
... American 1900-1 910 by Richard Abel. U of California P, 1999. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. Routledge, 1998. Cannibalism and the Colonial World edited by Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen. Cambridge UP, 1998...
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Sad Songs of Nitrate: Women's Work in the Silent Film Archive

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Jane M. Gaines
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 171–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-018
Published: 01 December 2007
..., one thinks of the Helen Gardner Picture Players Com- pany’s extant 35mm feature A Sister to Carmen (US, 1913), located by Gardner’s granddaughter in a group of flms found by the son of the former owner of the Ripley Hippodrome in Derbyshire, Eng- land.3 More recently, both a 16mm and a 35mm...
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Introduction: The Place of the Contemporary Female Director

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Therese Davis, Belinda Smaill
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 1–3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2408489
Published: 01 May 2014
... direc- tor offered a fruitful place to begin. Acknowledging the inter­ disciplinary and transnational legacy of the feminist film tradi- tion in Australia, which includes the work of influential scholars such as Meaghan Morris, Lesley Stern, Laleen Jayamanne, Helen Grace, and Barbara Creed, we...
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Ethical Whiteness and the Death Drive: White Women as the New War Hero

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Moon Charania
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8085135
Published: 01 May 2020
... the release of the grim but riveting Helen Mirren film Eye in the Sky (dir. Gavin Hood, UK/South Africa, 2015), a production that centers on a US/UK military operation to cap- ture an English woman-turned-terrorist who is meeting with a Somalia- based militant group at a house in Nairobi. Running...
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An Affair to Forget: Melancholia in Bromantic Comedy

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Tania Modleski
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2704652
Published: 01 September 2014
... Lillian (Maya Rudolph) has invited her to be her maid of honor, but Lillian’s new, wealthy friend Helen (Rose Byrne) tries to usurp Annie’s role. One of the funniest scenes in the movie shows Annie at the engagement party giving a brief but sweet and heartfelt toast to her friend only...
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The Confidence Game

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B. Ruby Rich
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 157–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2017005
Published: 01 May 2013
... make movies at forty The Confidence Game B. Ruby Rich “Things have moved on, but as far as I’m concerned, they haven’t moved on enough,” [Helen] Mirren insisted, before telling Karlovy Vary fest president Jiri Bartoska . . . that it was still a man’s world at the Czech Republic...
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Books Received

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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 166–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4-3_12-166
Published: 01 December 1984
... studies. Both theoretical and empirical Studies, The Open University materials are abstracted. The service is Helen Roberts, Senior Researcher, Ilkley published quarterly, and each issue College contains about 200 abstracts ranging from Sylvia Walby...
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