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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 33–59.
Published: 01 December 2024
... can mystify historical meaning. This article argues The Favourite constitutes an anti-heritage film, a film that uses heritage film's own generic dictates to unwrite history. Bringing together the film's reception, Queen Anne's historiography, and theories of sexual/cinematic reproduction, this essay...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 43–75.
Published: 01 May 2004
... of the most suc- cessful of the British heritage films, for it grossed more than 16 million dollars in Britain and “landed among the top 50 box office performers” in each week of its yearlong release.4 Atten- dance at its screenings all over Britain early in 1993 remained high as it vied for Academy Awards...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 107–137.
Published: 01 September 2009
... film to celebrate Morocco's cultural history and to trace out a feminist trajectory that embraces the country's Islamic heritage. More specifically, it conveys its protagonist's embrace of Sufism simultaneously through a narrative influenced by Sufi poetics and a Sufi-influenced visual aesthetics. Yet...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 169–179.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., that there are different bourgeoisies and different undergrounds and they can clash in many ways. Just as we still live with the heritage of May 1968 in Paris, in the experimental film world so too we still live with the aftermath of EXPRMNTL 4 in 1967 in the small town of Knokke. When the fifth edition of the festival...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 75–89.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... The format is derived from writer Georges Perec, and the essay connects these artists through their experiences as Holocaust survivors or children of survivors. Touching on Akerman’s Jewish heritage, her early success with the film Jeanne Dielman: 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Belgium/France, 1975...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 93–127.
Published: 01 December 2007
.... 6. See Andrew Higson, “Re-presenting the National Past: Nostalgia and Pastiche in the Heritage Film,” in Fires Were Started: British 120  •  Camera Obscura Cinema and Thatcherism, ed. Lester Friedman (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 109 – 29; Phil Powrie...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 153–163.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of Arnait builds on the strategies deployed by the well-known Nunavut-based video and film collective Isuma and also radically departs from it by including women in key production roles. In doing so, Arnait foregrounds women's stories and perspectives from an Inuit point of view and thereby counteracts...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 188–190.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., and Angela Werndly. The Language of Television. New York: Routledge, 2002. McNair, Brian. Striptease Culture: Sex, Media, and the Democratisation of Desire. New York: Routledge, 2002. Monk, Claire, and Amy Sargeant, eds. British Historical Cinema: The History, Heritage, and Costume Film...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 118–133.
Published: 01 September 1995
... and economic means to make films, and have taken up positions behind the camera as well as in front of it, they have often seemed less interested in making it commercially than in providing critiques of the conventional imaging of Black women that has been so instrumental in keeping them away...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 69–107.
Published: 01 September 2002
...A. Samuel Kimball Camera Obscura 2002 A. Samuel Kimball is an associate professor of English at the University of North Florida. His publications on film include articles on Twin Peaks, Pulp Fiction, The Matrix , and Chinatown . He has recently completed a book-length study...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 188–189.
Published: 01 May 1996
... 188 Books Received The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture by Jonathan Sawday. Routledge, 1997. Botticelli in Hollywood: The Films of Albert Lewin by Susan Felleman. Twayne, 1997. British National Cinema by Sarah...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 89–117.
Published: 01 September 2023
... it happened.” Quoted in Jerry Douglas, “Gay Film Heritage: Jaguar Productions Part 1,” Manshots 8, no. 6 (1996): 11. It should be noted that Brian King went by the pseudonym Barry Knight, a revelation publicly acknowledged in one of his death announcements. “Gay XXX Pioneer Dies,” AVN , 21 June 2005...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 89–103.
Published: 01 December 2021
... was given to Deborah Stratman, whose film Vever (for Barbara) (US, 2019) combines the work of two of her artistic predecessors, Hammer and Maya Deren. Making use of the footage Hammer shot in 1975 as well as passages, images, and sound from Deren's work, Stratman creates a film that underlines several...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 99–117.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Maureen Turim Camera Obscura 2003 Maureen Turim is professor of English and film studies at the University of Florida. She is author of Abstraction in Avant-Garde Films (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985), Flashbacks in Film: Memory and History (New York: Routledge, 1989...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 100–103.
Published: 01 December 1989
... before, and socially committed Black women activists seized the moment to consolidate a larger constituency of aware Black women. As a group, with the film as one among a number of catalysts, Black women drew together in defense of their social and cultural heritage and are now working...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 137–177.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Kay Dickinson Camera Obscura 2007 Kay Dickinson works in the media and communications department of Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) and the editor of two anthologies...
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 104–111.
Published: 01 September 1985
... tourist settlements flourish A film about what? my friends ask. A film about Senegal; but what in Senegal? In Enampor Andre Manga says his name is listed in the tourist information book. Above the entry of his house is a hand-written sign which says “Three hundred and fifty francs” A flat...
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 235–249.
Published: 01 September 1985
...E. Ann Kaplan The Hidden Agenda: Re- Vision: Essays in Feminist Film Criticism E. Ann Kaplan Women in Film is fast becoming a publicly recognized sub-field within Film Studies. The recent spate of books externalizes for the larger academic community what has long been internally...
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 192–209.
Published: 01 December 1982
..., Godard’s cinema privileges spoken language. Unlike most other bodies of work, however, Godard’s films do not privilege dialogue: “conversation” is only one possible type of language use in a Godard film. There are also, most notably, reading aloud, composing aloud for transcription, interviewing...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 95–121.
Published: 01 May 2000
... of blood but legally, economically, and socially separated by the conventions left over from slavery. Pinky’s repressed white heritage is raised repeatedly in the anxiety her light skin creates in the white community of the film. The denial of her obvious...