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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Gretchen Bakke Camera Obscura 2007 Gretchen Bakke is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Chicago. Much of her research revolves around what is being made as the divisions between the living and the nonliving are mediated by human action. At the most basic level...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 226–242.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Stacy Alaimo Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
Endangered Humans?:
Wired Bodies and the Human Wilds
in Carnosaur, Carnosaur 2, and 12 Monkeys
Stacy Alaimo
The earth was not made for us. She was made...
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 86–100.
Published: 01 September 1983
...Luli McCarroll © 1983 by Camera Obscura 1983 The Body Human: The Sexes (CBS)
Dissecting The Body Human: The Sexes
Luli McCa1ioll
The Body Human: The Sexes is but one episode of a prestigious prime
time CBS series called The Body Human. As its title suggests, it investi•
gates...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 73–109.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of difference regulating human organization and politics are as temporary and as transient as all historical artifacts. Alterity-as-biopolitics is also, however, a kind of traumatic sign that persists across history, and its meaning is often concealed. The article concludes with speculation about cinema's...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 65–91.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of subjectivity, collectivity, and desire. I argue that Surrogates exemplifies the view of technology as prosthetic enhancement, foregrounding technology-induced psychic exhaustion and libidinal depletion of the social body (the networked body)—a view that results in the call to restore human collectivity through...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 161–171.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Michael T. Martin While slavery is distinctive in human history, its enduring legacy and practices in the modern world are manifest in the “disposable” labor that provisions the brothels, sweatshops, and agricultural plantations in the global economy. This interview with filmmaker Amy Serrano...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 41–67.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Marta Figlerowicz This essay examines Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac (Denmark/Belgium/France/Germany, 2013) and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (UK/US/Switzerland, 2013) as instances of an aesthetic trope described here as “inanimism.” Both films depict inanimate representations of human beings...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 197–207.
Published: 01 September 2018
... University Press in 2017 as part of Camera Obscura ’s relaunched book series). Rangan introduces “immediations,” the concept she uses for documentary tropes that generate a sensation of urgency and immediacy around endangered humanity, which distracts from the consensus they produce around particular...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 139–161.
Published: 01 May 2019
... precise repetition and variation of stylistic strategies, songs imbue Akerman’s films with a range of meanings and experiences we rarely associate with her work: a jolt of joy, an impression of intense human connection, a reference to popular culture. Through unpredictable humming, an opera duet...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 77–105.
Published: 01 December 2023
... pass as human and whose kin have been subjected to genocide, dislocation, and mutilation, but the film's reception largely misses the connection to the treatment of Indigenous Sámi people and transgender people within Nordic settler states. The article argues that Border 's ecstatic depiction of gender...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 87–107.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and learning. The ceremony brought together three women of conscience, all dedicated to the power of memory and its ability to bind humanity in a common purpose. Simone Veil and Marceline Loridan-Ivens were both survivors of Auschwitz, while Varda, their exact contemporary, commemorated their experience...
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in Watching Women: Surveillance and Spectatorship in Early Science Fiction Television
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. In “O.B.I.T.,” a US Defense Department employee surveils the wife of a government scientist through a mysterious alien technology designed to tear human society apart. “O.B.I.T.,” season 1, episode 7 of The Outer Limits , dir. Gerd Oswald, writ. Meyer Dolinski and Leslie Stevens, ABC
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 135–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Thomas Foster This essay analyzes a postcyberpunk science fiction story by Ted Chiang, an Asian American writer. The story speculates on the technological manipulation of visual perception through the direct modification of visual processing structures in the human brain. It focuses...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... The article concludes by arguing that Born into Brothels puts to work the immaterial or affective labor of children in the production of cultural commodities as a humane and “empowering” alternative to coerced sex work. This move to mobilize the child as a new figure of economic promise indicates the vexed...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 173–181.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of the challenges they faced in making the documentary, and the subsequent outreach campaign for raising awareness about social justice and human rights issues on the Mexico-US border. Camera Obscura 2010 Rosa-Linda Fregoso is a professor and former chair of Latin American and Latino studies...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... an accompanying vocabulary for demarcating the limits of citizenship, subjectivity, and humanity. Finally, I argue that while subjectivity can be created through narrative tropes, we still need to question the desire for subjectivity and citizenship in violent state regimes. Fiona I. B. Ngô...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the danchi landscape as something that regiments and confines human life and conceals illicit activities despite its pretensions to rationalization. In contrast, the Nikkatsu productions depict a critique of managed life that includes both sexes and implicates the built environment through dependence...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 103–123.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of seeing.” But this mode of seeing is not innocent; it is, to adopt Heideggerian language, a “challenging” or “enframing” of seeing, such that the quotidian processes of imagination and conceptualization evident in the human senses are instrumentalized according to specific interests and outcomes. I wish...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 109–149.
Published: 01 September 2013
... in an era of executive auteurs, its unique development and distribution, its use of familiar genres, its formal innovations, its complications of gendered viewing patterns and assumptions, and its risqué content paired with humane, even feminist sensitivity. Sandwiched between the socially relevant...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2017
... relations between sound and image corresponds with the projection of a collectivity to come. The article argues that the film does not seek to humanize the members of the leper colony but rather to radically rethink the relation between the filmmaker and the subjects of the film. This new relationship...
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