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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... Modern Family ’s adaptations of sitcom narrativity allow it to advance its progressive ambitions, while the program also plays with the humor of gay stereotypes ultimately to demolish binary assumptions of queer political identity. To read a sitcom through a political lens of conservatism versus...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 99–111.
Published: 01 May 2019
... with other Akerman works as a poetics of understatement, collage, juxtaposition, and humor are forged. Fearlessly exposing her psyche, Akerman uses spatial and visual dimensions of display to turn her writing into a form that signifies far beyond writing’s ordered words as they might otherwise be reproduced...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 91–97.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of working, especially on documentary and installation pieces; her preference for frontal shots; her lack of interest in rules, realism, and character psychology; and her humor. The tribute closes with the filmmaker’s own words on her last film, No Home Movie (Belgium/France, 2015). Copyright © 2019 Camera...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
... reimagines the thrilling anxiety of these money shots through humor. © 2015 by Camera Obscura 2015 docusoap black women melodrama queer of color camp Bravo network Figure 1. Melodramatic money shots feature a shot reverse shot structure while emphasizing performance of negative affects...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
... in the classic psychoanalytic account of abjection, often depicting its protagonist as a dehumanized object full of disappointed drives, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl humorously blends the historical weight of black abjection with other kinds of abjection, so that the abjection its protagonist uses...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 125–155.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Phoebe Bronstein This article examines The Andy Griffith Show (CBS, 1960–68) within the context of civil rights news reporting and articulates how the sitcom used humor to reenvision and rehabilitate the South in its safer white image. By 1960, due to civil rights news coverage, racism could...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 100–110.
Published: 01 September 1980
... not want Kristeva at her worst, trying to recon-
struct an “archaic laughter-space,” but perhaps we can still let her put
her best foot forward in a last waltz with Freud:
A sense of humor seems to be built up beginning with these semiotic supports [the
archaic laughter-space] upon...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 202–223.
Published: 01 September 1991
...” and to allow them to envision alternatives to tradi-
tional family structures. I will outline the range of meanings that were
assigned to the figure of the “Wild Woman” as she moved from turn-
of-the-century debates about suffrage through romantic fiction, pop-
ular humor...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 149–159.
Published: 01 September 2022
... audience members’ observations. They further provide an archival record of the live event and resulting conversations for future audiences. The DFF drinking game and improv format use humor to encourage audiences to inhabit contradictory spaces of enjoyment and critical awareness when engaging...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 102–131.
Published: 01 May 1994
... conventionally has dealt with
a single comedic situation in a family or ensemble group that is neatly
resolved within the half-hour episode. Sitcoms generally have been shot
with multiple cameras (on film or video) in front of a live studio
audience and have utilized a joke-based humor underscored...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
... convention more readily by framing it as a necessary lie,
a strategic fabrication.”10
While I have not encountered a critical theorization of mel-
ancholia in relation to romantic comedy, some theorists have recog-
nized a crucial connection between melancholia and humor. Simon
Critchley...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... Within the history of the comedy genre, these films repre-
sent a specific form or subgenre that had significant resonance
in Germany at a point of rapid cultural transformation. Of course,
humor is one method through which the psyche contends...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 42–69.
Published: 01 May 1990
... high.
In the Preface to Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding points to the
related set of distinctions upon which burlesque humor depends: the
horizontal ordering of society and culture into distinct and autonomous
categories. The aim of burlesque, says Fielding, is “to exhibit monsters,
not men...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
...-4205066 © 2017 by Camera Obscura
Published by Duke University Press
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cess, specifically as a family comedy for a broad audience pitched
against the trend of narrow and high- concept humor at a time
when sitcoms were considered less profitable.2 In 2014, Daily Beast...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 97–129.
Published: 01 May 2010
...
for laughs. While avoiding any theory-based gender analysis, Sand-
ers finds his more interesting readings in the realm of the sexual,
rightfully contending that “to deny that homosexual humor is
present in many of their films is, I think, to diminish their stature
and richness.”8
But what can...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 159–166.
Published: 01 January 1990
... of an actress (Irene Ravache)
performing an extended monologue on her character’s experiences as
a victim of torture, Murat creates a work which is at once sensitive,
deeply disturbing, and caustically humorous. The director does justice
to the documentary and fictional...
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 130–143.
Published: 01 December 1984
... is the critical engine of Surrealist humor in Bunuel’s oeuvre,
which is frequently nourished by ready-made figures as well. In L’Age
d’or, the scatological mud wrestling of Gaston Modot and Lya Lys is the
ironic, metaphoric double of the social foundation ceremony, in which a
mayoral figure lays...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 155–185.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Award for Best Documentary. The video begins with JR on a motorbike holding the reaching Varda. He tells “Agnès” he will take her for a ride, before airport security agents pose with a cutout and send it through an X-ray machine, highlighting the surreal and humorous nature of the whole promotional...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... The new
queer media work invites us to look at cultural feminism playfully
and generously, seeking out and unearthing obscured sites of sexi-
ness, humor, and nonnormative gender expression.
I will take up this invitation in particular with regard to
the s short experimental lms...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 186–193.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., the Phallus, and the Future • 187
phallus of French feminist theory, accompanied by her medita-
tion on the expectation of smut that the phallus provokes and her
reframing of those expectations through the invocation of “the
lesbian phallus.”3 Visitors to this humorous section of the archive
would...
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