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Chantal Akerman and the Cinéfille
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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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The Asexual-Single and the Collective: Remaking Queer Bonds in (A)sexual, Bill Cunningham New York , and Year of the Dog
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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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Historical Critique and History as Criticism
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 1988
... to reclaim Cabiers du Cinema. Is
history a positive science or a science bumaine? Nineteenth-century
Rankean historiography has in common with theoretical enterprises
a confidence in its patterns that can mould or place any individual
events. It is thus opposed to criticism which...
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Nonmaterial Overelaboration: Gender, Casting, and Camouflaged Labor in Pat Rocco's Promotional Travelogue
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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 (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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Editorial
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 4–7.
Published: 01 January 1990
... as examples the film criticism of Molly
Haskell and Marjorie Rosen, the critical debates on authorship and
classical cinema, and the more recent studies of spectatorship and
consumerism, Petro argues that even when not directly acknowledged
as such., historical presuppositions and modes...
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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen : The Actress As Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Film Culture
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 229–263.
Published: 01 December 2001
... historical roots, early Chinese
cinema has begun to receive more favorable reassessment, and
scholars tend now to make finer periodizations within that long
“early” period. Not only have they subtly challenged prevalent
ideological assumptions that inform existing historiography of
early Chinese cinema...
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Feminist History and The Song of the Shirt
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 110–127.
Published: 01 May 1981
... been particularly effective in raising these ques-
tions; by using signifying practices from the dominant cinema and
from independent, avant-garde, and feminist cinema, it can get the
audience to question these relationships.
History, Historiography, and Cinema
In this context...
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Foucault in the Field of Feminism
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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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Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 167–168.
Published: 01 January 1990
...
“American Cinema History Project” to be published by Scribner’s, and is
completing an NEA-supported video research project on women and housing
entitled, “A House of Her Owflaking Shelter.”
Constance Balides is a graduate student in the Modern Studies Program of
the department of English...
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Janet Bergstrom
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 94–100.
Published: 01 December 1989
... of viewing, namely those associated with the German
tradition of art cinema and with viewing paintings or reproductions
in which sexual aim would necessarily be passive and in which sexual
overtones could easily be ignored because of their common occurrence
as an iconographical element. In so doing...
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Petting the Rabbit: The Favourite (2018), Anti-heritage, and the Search for Lesbians in the Past
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 33–59.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... 49. Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 8. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Camera Obscura 2024 The Favourite heritage film rabbits lesbian cinema historiography What explains...
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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
...
Association of University Women, among other organizations. Her
primary interests are film historiography, documentary cinema,
feminist media studies, and film and composition pedagogy.
Photo from Chelsea
Picture Station
workshop, ca. 1972.
Carla Johnson (left),
Ariel Dougherty (right...
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The Future of Feminism and Film History
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 39–44.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Lauren Rabinovitz Camera Obscura 2006 Lauren Rabinovitz is chair of the Department of American Studies and professor of American studies and cinema at the University of Iowa. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Culture...
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Temporal Surfacing: Mosori Monika (1970) and Chick Strand's Cross-Cultural Explorations
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 31–57.
Published: 01 December 2022
... ethnographic cinema experimental film historiography and cinema Figure 1. Carmelita in Mosori Monika (dir. Chick Strand, US, 1970) Figure 1. Carmelita in Mosori Monika (dir. Chick Strand, US, 1970) “Psychedelic ethnographer and Canyon cofounder Chick Strand was years ahead of her time...
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Feminism and Film History
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 8–27.
Published: 01 January 1990
... (e.g., the status of
textual analysis, the relationship between authorship and biography,
the role of extra-textual determinations on the cinema and its audi-
ences).
A larger and more important distinction in film historiography is
therefore obscured by debates...
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Screening Musidora: Inscribing Indeterminacy in Film History
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 59–81.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Feuillade , to be published by Wayne State University Press. She is also coediting an anthology of feminist film history and historiography. Musidora as the phantom that haunts film history in
Les vampires (1915–16), directed by Louis Feuillade
Screening Musidora: Inscribing
Indeterminacy in Film...
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Marcia Butzel
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 111–115.
Published: 01 December 1989
... This tension
should be productive for feminist theory which, after all, is a heter-
ogeneous political activity and not a discrete methodological position.
Continued work in feminist historiography of cinema and television
will be necessary to strengthen arguments that women...
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Imagining Future Gardens of History
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 184–191.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of many artists are heard beside traces of process,
biographies, social histories, texts of conflicting discourses, and
diverse strands of thought. They are labyrinths of stories in which
there is no hierarchy in who or what is remembered.
Of the innumerable examples of expanded cinema...
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Picturing What If : Julie Dash's Speculative Fiction
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 116–131.
Published: 01 May 1996
... federally-funded arts work so bleakly,
it is erroneous to characterize early nineties African-American cinema
production in the same terms. Dash's work should be situated within
the context of this other cultural narrative, that is, in relation to what
some have called an explosion in Black film...
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