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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 1–23.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Kathleen Collins First appearing on the air in 1947, Dione Lucas was one of the earliest television cooking-show hosts. As a business owner, single mother, influential salesperson, and highly respected professional in her field (Julia Child referred to Lucas as “the mother of French cooking...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 169–179.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Gerda Johanna Cammaer The small Belgian coastal town of Knokke-le-Zoute once was the scene for one of the most impressive gatherings of the international film avant-garde, when it hosted the last three editions of the illustrious EXPRMNTL film festival (1963, 1967, and 1974). This article focuses...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the intentions of collaborative partners or the institutions hosting them, shared labor opens ways to contend with difference as creative material and not just as that which opposes normality. The author considers a number of artists' groups, projects, and collaborative methods in which the subject slips out...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2021
... far-right, anti-gay hosts. Bewitched 's ability to appeal to these very different channels’ brands and audiences underscores a textual vigor and sustainability for success in syndication that even the best so-called quality shows today lack. While some may deride a study of syndication (and reruns...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2012
... into university settings, where it has students organize, market, and host the event. This essay examines the issues attendant with bringing LUNAFEST onto college campuses. On the one hand, LUNAFEST encourages and supports the exhibition of women filmmakers, a laudable endeavor. On the other hand, as a corporate...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 65–91.
Published: 01 May 2016
... a return to its former unmediated status. By contrast, Her moves beyond the notion of prosthesis, bringing into focus human-machine intimacies wherein the human serves as host or a surrogate womb to the emerging technological object. In Her , technology is seen as an immaterial parasite while human...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Hitch-
cock’s terrible and singular hosts — the Nazi mother in Notorious
(US, 1946), Brandon Shaw in Rope (US, 1948), Phillip Vandamm
in North by Northwest (US, 1959), and the surprisingly polite Nor-
man Bates in Psycho (US, 1960) — as well as a gallery of less individ-
uated bad guests...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 29–59.
Published: 01 May 1996
.... Initially a fashion model, Xuxa (pro-
nounced "shoo-sha") began in 1983 at age 20 to host a children's
show on Manchete, then the third largest of four Brazilian television
networks. In 1986, she moved to host an expanded daily show on the
largest, Globo (TV Globo). With that shift to what has been...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 65–89.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., there is no direct address to the camera or the
audience from the expert. These differences mean that the hosts
of Little Angels cannot easily achieve the type of celebrity that has
been bestowed on the Supernanny Frost. In Little Angels the power
dynamics between audience, host, and family under observation...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 42–75.
Published: 01 May 1994
...
range; and “she” hosts programs on topics considered important to
women and their families. Most of all, through publicity campaigns
and in original programming credits for actresses, directors, and
writers (many of whom are female), “she” speaks for Lifetime to
convince...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 12–41.
Published: 01 May 1994
... in the standard histories is the phenomenon of
daytime talk shows for women. As Michele Hilmes’s research on the
daytime host Mary Margaret McBride demonstrates, daytime radio
also included talk shows organized around a host who often rose to
celebrity status.8 Talk programs ranged...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 31–69.
Published: 01 December 2002
... television
network in 1949, and she hosted the program until her retire-
ment in 1967. Arlene Francis, a radio, stage, and screen actress
based in New York City, starred in a number of television shows in
the industry’s earliest days, gaining national recognition as a reg-
ular panelist on CBS’s popular...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 180–198.
Published: 01 May 1997
... the earth lies in their
search for “fluids” to help their dying race.16 In Independence Day, for
example, the intruders have drained the resources of their former host
planet and are now turning their attentions to the earth. Do not be
surprised, then, that this matches Dracula’s decision to leave...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 47–77.
Published: 01 January 1988
... corporate structures were responsible for
relaying Hollywood stars and stories to female fans via television-insti•
tutions whose presence was foregrounded by means of the various me•
diating figures of network announcer, product announcer and, in the case
of the variety show, the TV show host...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 31–61.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to breach a boundary that we had not realized until it was violated. When this title character in The Hitch-Hiker, an episode of The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959 64),1 turns his threatening gaze from the female protagonist to the camera, staring through the television screen at the viewer, a host...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 185–195.
Published: 01 May 2015
... project, “Quality Drama from ER to Smash .” © 2015 by Camera Obscura 2015 reality TV quality TV Bravo The Real Housewives of New York City Rachel Zoe Figure 1. Jeff Lewis guests on the only talk show hosted by
a network executive, Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens:
Live (Bravo...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 9–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
... homes sit tucked in a corner of the bay sheltered by Mount Tamalpais. During the 1950s and 1960s, through Yanco's death in 1971, the Vallejo hosted various luminaries of the California counterculture movement. Alan Watts (1915–73), a founder of the California Institute of Integral Studies and author...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
... is concerned. Radio host Charlamagne Tha God also tries to articulate the parameters of what makes something or someone ratchet: People try to categorize the term ratchet and try to make it something ghetto or something negative, but I just think it s letting loose a little bit. Anything young, wild...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 139–146.
Published: 01 September 2011
... and Rebecca Tushnet discuss in their piece in this
dossier, online vids are vulnerable to erasure on account of their
use of copyrighted material. Hosting sites like YouTube and Vimeo
Camera Obscura 77, Volume 26, Number 2
doi 10.1215/02705346-1301575 © 2011 by Camera Obscura
Published...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 131–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
... that vids were
“no longer hosted at this location,” explaining: “I’ve removed them
for the sake of my own sanity, after several incidents in 2006 made
me question whether continuing to host vids online was worth the
anxiety levels it was causing me. I concluded it wasn’t.”12 As a result,
fans lost...
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