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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the vitality of the community's social life despite the disease's deathliness, the show attempts to humanize its “real” history. This article explicates the ethical dilemmas that haunt this positive historiography despite its significant value. The show's attention to the robustness of the community's social...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 27–63.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., 2010) illustrate that the binding of the asexual to the single, though seemingly misguided, can open up fruitful pathways for reimagining queer relationality. Responding in part to scholarship on singlehood and asexuality while also attending to the film studies historiography of sexuality, this essay...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 163–183.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and historiography. The authors are scholars, curators, and collaborators; some were her friends; many share several of these attributes. As organizers of the symposium, we asked them to shed light on the papers given on the occasion by returning to the theme of the difficulty of forgetting. Copyright © 2019...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Lakshmi Padmanabhan What can photographic form teach us about feminist historiography? Through close readings of photographs by visual artist and documentary photographer Sheba Chhachhi, who documented the struggle for women’s rights in India from the 1980s onward, this article outlines...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2021
... fantasies” in Schneemann's work, the essay proposes a shift in feminist art historiography and its projections on Schneemann the artist. The essay asserts Schneemann's tale as a cautionary and self-reflexive one for those who come after, the would-be-daughters, who would negate the body, the struggle...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of cinephilia; Akerman's complex relation to her own cinematic becoming and cinema's historiography; and the distinct temporality and duration of cinema produced by and for the figure of the girl. The article demonstrates that in Akerman's filmmaking, the figure of girl as cinéfille is not a position...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 89–117.
Published: 01 September 2023
... products, their paratexts, and historiography itself. It is necessary for gay media history to take up feminist production history methods to interrogate this elision of labor enacted by cultural history approaches to Pat Rocco's filmmaking. More broadly, the article's concept of nonmaterial...
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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 (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 138–149.
Published: 01 January 1990
... to feminism. And while Feminism and Foucault does not discuss film or film historiography directly, it focuses certain methodological issues for feminist film theorists interested both in history and in Foucault’s writings. Of course, well before the publication of this anthology, Foucault’s...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 1988
... to the Structural Study of Narrative" (1964) to the inventive S/Z, Pleasure ofthe Text, and Tbe Lover's Discourse. Nowhere are these shifts in research paradigms more visible and troublesome than in historiography, which is precisely the place to question most deeply any project...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 4–7.
Published: 01 January 1990
... on film historiography. Dana Polan discusses a newly translated volume of essays by Carlo Ginzburg, Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method, and Ginzburg’s notions of resistance and the popular. In a review of Feminism and Foucault, Constance Balides examines the ways in which...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2005
... in the international culture marketplace. —  Rey Chow, Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema Feminist film historiography has become a dynamic site of schol- arly activity in which the screen is indeed “a new type of ethno- graphic picture,” one...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 105–117.
Published: 01 December 2021
... OF A COUNTERDISCOURSE.” Here, Hammer acknowledges the influence of Terry's groundbreaking essay “Theorizing Deviant Historiographies,” which “propose[s] . . . not only a way of reading and understanding history against the grain of heterosexual hegemony, but a way of conceptualizing and enacting subjectivities forged...
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 110–127.
Published: 01 May 1981
... as a History (when written or filmed), and the idea that history is only there insofar as it is made present as History, whether in period-costume dramas, in the archi- tectural archive, or wherever. This debate about the relationship be- tween historiography and history is by and large repressed...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 229–263.
Published: 01 December 2001
... twentieth- century China. “Amorous” Historiography and Early Film Culture History, for Walter Benjamin, does not unfold in a “homoge- neous, empty time.” Likewise, historical thinking that attempts to seize in an illuminating flash the image of nonlinear time and heterogeneous experience...
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 111–119.
Published: 01 September 1983
... on these grounds. Indeed, elsewhere, Pollock tends to regard with suspicion such purely restorative ventures in feminist art historiography. She makes the claim that it is far too simplistic to argue that women were left out or discriminated against. Rather, the evidence suggests the active...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 167–168.
Published: 01 January 1990
... and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is currently writing her dissertation on the impli- cations of Foucault’s work for a feminist historiography. Rhona Berenstein is a doctoral candidate in Film and Television Critical Studies at UCLA. Her reviews and articles have...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 94–100.
Published: 01 December 1989
... that shows how historiographical issues may be productively addressed. I think that the most interesting work that combines historiography and film/media theory is just beginning, and it is with that understand- ing that I agree with those who feel that the study of the female spectator is also...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 125–133.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. In support of her research, she has received honors and awards from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the American Association of University Women, among other organizations. Her primary interests are film historiography, documentary cinema, feminist media...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 116–131.
Published: 01 May 1996
... on fact." Because of how it amends dominant conceptions of historiography, the meaning of the term speculative is primarily procedural here; that is, it communicates a conjecture or proposition: to speculate about history is to hypothesize how things might have been...