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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 86–105.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Julia Erhart Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 The Children's Hour (William Wyler, 1961)
"She Could Hardly Invent Them!"
From Epistemological Uncertainty to
Discursive Production: Lesbianism in
The Children's Hour
Julia Erhart...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 37–67.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Julianne Pidduck This article explores Stephen Daldry's The Hours (US/UK, 2002) as a feminist and queer meditation on the dilemma of marriage. An important queer-authored crossover film in the tradition of the family melodrama and the woman's film, The Hours offers a considered return to the iconic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 105–145.
Published: 01 May 2006
... literature and film. Virginia (Nicole Kidman) enters the river in The Hours
(dir. Stephen Daldry, US, 2002).
Melancholic Arrangements:
Music, Queer Melodrama,
and the Seeds of Transformation
in The Hours
Michael LeBlanc
One feels even in the midst of the traffic, or working at night...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 185–192.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Claudia Lo Amid the ongoing popularity of hundred-hour, epic-length stories or never-ending, procedurally generated games, where is the place for short games with defined endings? Anna Anthropy's Queers in Love at the End of the World (2013) rejects the importance of having a lengthy game and flips...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 127–155.
Published: 01 December 2019
... at The United States Steel Hour (ABC, 1953–55; CBS, 1955–63), “I think it was a shameful omission that I was not permitted to attend today’s meeting.” For decades, women like Hechtlinger and Wood have suffered such “omissions” within television history. This essay seeks to integrate their stories, work...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 67–101.
Published: 01 December 2013
... is the most prominent storyline in the miniseries. However, across nearly sixteen hours, Berlin Alexanderplatz also introduces us to Paula (Mechthild Grossmann), Minna (Karin Baal), Ida (Barbara Valentin), Frau Bast (Brigitte Mira), Polish Lina (Elisabeth Trissenaar), Eva (Hanna Schygulla), the widow (Angela...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 28–39.
Published: 01 December 1989
... spectatorship
was brought to the fore in the context of a “non-specialized” setting.
It became an important issue around 1979 in the context of the “150
hours courses.” This was the name given to one of the most important
successes of the Italian workers’ movement in 1974. The “150 hours”
referred...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 203–225.
Published: 01 January 1988
... marries a widower with three sons. Episodes center on the trials
and tribulations of a large, loving, middle-class family. In an attempt to revive the
format of the show, NBC aired The Brady Bunch Hour in 1977, but this show
lasted only five months. An animated spin-off aired on ABC from 1972-1974...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 29–59.
Published: 01 May 1996
... assessed
as the fourth largest broadcasting system in the world, Xuxa burst into
national and, soon, international media prominence.
Xuxa's superstardom first emerged from the exceptional popularity
of her four and three-quarters-hour daily children's program on Globo,
which soon dominated Brazilian...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 212–241.
Published: 01 May 1994
... shop-
ping segments actually bore a close resemblance to a successful infomercial
that the network produced and aired three times in 1993. That half-hour
program, Homemade for the Holidays, showed viewers how to decorate
Christmas ornaments using a craft kit...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 54–75.
Published: 01 September 1991
... six hours of nonstop cov-
erage creates the impression of a single, flickering, male talking head-
a composite of anchors, reporters, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, military
and weapons “experts,” and on-site reporters -interrupted by maps,
diagrams, and the sputtering green lights...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 219–224.
Published: 01 May 1979
... showing of Valie Export’s
16mm film Invisible Adversaries. The world premier was in Paris one
week earlier.
A somnambulistic hour but the audience watched with wide awake 223
attention the story (better: the condition) of Anna (Susanne Widl) who
is forced more and more...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 203–212.
Published: 01 December 2023
... about your recent film project, Flight from Kabul ? As far as I know, the film will narrate your escape from Afghanistan upon the Taliban's entry into Kabul . When I was forced to leave Afghanistan, I decided in less than one hour that I wanted to stay alive and voice my experience. I could have...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 63–91.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of biopower, masochism, and the relationship between
the two.
Boredom, Catharsis, and Creation
In The Artist Is Present, Abramovi´c sat in a chair for eight to ten
hours every day MoMA was open, without a break, from 14 March
to 31 May 2010 (seventy-seven days total). Spectators were
required...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 224–227.
Published: 01 May 1979
... and her need
for privacy and a relationship impossible to satisfy in the space of a 24
hour day. She tries to cut down, to order her priorities.
She works with a group of women on a collective project, for which
they could receive some money, which involves photographing...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 86–97.
Published: 01 September 1980
..., and the discussions
between Anne and Martha, on the Ten Hours Bill, which would restrict
women’s working hours. The various conflicting and supporting inter-
ests are set out, but the issue is never resolved. What knowledge
emerges? What conclusions should we draw?None are signalled...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 42–75.
Published: 01 May 1994
...), feminine psychographic space. The second
section looks specifically at the network’s choice of a “mystery” pack-
age to tie together three original programs scheduled for a more
heterogeneous prime-time audience: Confessions of Crime, a half-hour
“reality” show; The Hidden...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 109–149.
Published: 01 September 2013
... programming.9 Though
the movement arguably began in the late 1960s with variety shows
like Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC, 1968 – 73) and The Smoth-
ers Brothers’ Comedy Hour (CBS, 1967 – 69) on the political left and
procedurals like Dragnet 1967 (NBC, 1967 – 70) on the right, Lear’s
introduction...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 31–69.
Published: 01 December 2002
... hired
her as the assistant musical director at WKRC Radio in 1929.
Later that year, she went on the air with a fifteen-minute program
of piano music and became the hostess of The Woman’s Hour,
which offered music, recipes, interviews, and spontaneous con-
versation before a live studio audience...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 42–49.
Published: 01 December 1980
....
The reception lasts more than an hour (66 minutes and 13 seconds). I
see it above all as a mass of sound that turns around a group of barely
varied images, which act as fured supports anchoring ths mass to fxed
places, preventing it from veering off toward Illustration. There is no
narrative...
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