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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 89–111.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Bradley Rogers This essay interrogates the popular ideology of integration in American musical theater, arguing that the “integration” of Oklahoma! was less the integration of music and narrative and more a related (and almost equally uneasy) attempt to minimize the eruptive force of female musical...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
... resorts to the strategy of narrative truncation and erasure to deflect the focus from melodramatic spectacle onto that of the quotidian framing of gay sexuality and its normalcy. Ideology and melodrama are implicated in the way the traditions of form constrain and mold subject matter to produce...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in relation to this decisive moment in the transition to neoliberalism in Britain, recognizing its sympathy for the miners as well as the ideological limitations to that sympathy generated by the focus on Billy's trajectory out of his class and toward the metropolis. That trajectory is symbolically freighted...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 117–147.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Robert Miklitsch This article employs Robert Stevenson's The Woman on Pier 13 (US, 1950) as a privileged example of anticommunist film noir in order to explore the received left critique of the ideological and aesthetic properties of this subgenre — what one might call the unhappy marriage of film...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 141–151.
Published: 01 December 2016
... perspectives. Such issues include the process of urban redevelopment in Seoul, the global environmental crisis, utopian aspirations in the neoliberal economy, and the Korean authorities' ideological control of citizenship. The collective's imperative to engender sensory and affective engagement...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 93–127.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., this article analyzes Arletty's role at the heart of the symbolic mechanisms of Enfants , in which she embodies an aesthetic unity that evokes the possibility of transcending the ideological divisions of occupied and liberated France. Figure 1. Arletty as the “naked truth” in Les enfants du paradis (Children...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 179–186.
Published: 01 May 2017
... filmmaking—and, indeed, in Hollywood—through her professional and personal ideology, her relationship with Roger Corman, and her marginalized place in film history. In so doing, this article provides an interventional model for the reconceptualization of film histories and archives through a feminist...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
... liberalism may in some instances stifle the challenges to the prevailing ideological order that a given program explores through its humor—a tension more dynamic and instructive than the invocation of a simplistic interpretive binary that the program attempts to evade. Figure 1. In Modern Family’s pilot...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
... diversity, these co-constructing representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality maintain whiteness as sexual modernity’s affective core. Modern Family thus expresses the ideological contours of mainstream diversity politics. However, its narrative efforts to synthesize its contradictions reflect...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Michael Litwack How can we understand television's pervasive ideology of liveness at a moment in which the medium increasingly invests in the vital capacities of individuals and populations? This article approaches this question by looking at the imbrication of televisual liveness and a perhaps...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 135–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
... induces another kind of damage, or agnosia: the ability to evaluate facial beauty. “Liking What You See” reflects on the ways in which such a technology might either disrupt or reproduce gender and racial ideologies by altering people's ability to recognize and experience a particular form of visual...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 1–39.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Ara Osterweil In an era of motion picture history that forbade the representation of explicit adult sexuality and interracial romance, the appeal of Shirley Temple's innocent yet erotic persona was instrumentalized by the film industry as an important box office draw and powerful ideological weapon...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 75–117.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Laura Horak The commercial success of Elinor Glyn's 1927 film It has obscured the fact that, throughout her career until this point, Glyn had promoted a significantly different sexual ideology. In a remarkable array of novels, plays, lectures, interviews, editorials, and advice manuals, Glyn had...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2012
... ideas of racial progress and recombines them with different narratives and ideologies so that audiences may receive them as new and cut off from history. By centering its finale on the survival of one genetically idealized child, Battlestar constructs a new narrative context for an old story...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 1–43.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Alessandra Raengo This essay pursues an understanding of the blackness of black cinema that is unhinged from the body of the maker or the content of the image. It does so by reading blackness through the visual paradigm of the shadow — that is, as a blackness that cannot, other than ideologically...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 77–107.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... In adoption, various vectors of familial and racial ideology meet: affirmative adoption narratives propose a family structure that does not insist on limited, and limiting, roles for women. To that end, I ask how a nonpathological depiction of adoption, in which the biological mother is not an object of scorn...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 21–47.
Published: 01 December 2018
... their female heroines, when coupled with consideration for each director’s biographical experiences across shifting political systems, troubles the prevalent perception of neoliberal discourses as intrinsically linked to capitalist systems and thus as anathema to socialist ideologies. Both films expose...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 171–179.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Sarah Sharma This article reveals how conservative and alt-right understandings of technology are inextricably tied to how these ideologies conceptualize gender, race, and other forms of social difference. Feminists, the gender nonconforming, queer, nonwhite, and the rest of the non-abiding...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 99–125.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and the resuscitation administered by the Hungarian medical doctor of the crematoria, Miklos Nyiszli. Son of Saul effectively swaps the body of this teenage girl with the body of a boy in order to re-create a foundational patrilineal story of powerful ideological impact and legitimating force. Pursuing a project...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
Published: 01 May 2022
... that Greaves's film indexes and reproduces. In doing so, it argues that Greaves's film not only documents contradictions of inclusion and recognition in the late 1960s, when the postwar ideology of racial liberalism was in decline, but it also anticipates the extractive racial politics of capitalism in the early...
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