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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 129–165.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Diana W. Anselmo This article employs the concept of imitation as a lens through which the author explores the complex relationship established between the fledgling Hollywood film industry and the first generation of girls to be culturally construed as “adolescent” and “movie fans” in the US...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 137–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
...David Copenhafer In David Lynch's Blue Velvet , music is a key component of the film's intricate staging of gender and sexuality. “Mourning and Music” interprets four scenes in which characters either sing songs or imitate singing. It argues that the unsettling appearance of gender and sexuality...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 113–143.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Hiram Perez Building on feminist and queer scholarship on the relationship of film spectatorship to subjectivity, this essay conjectures subaltern spectatorships of the two US film adaptations of Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel Imitation of Life as a means of tracing the impossibly entangled discourses...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2021
... reference to the intertwined and imitative relations between the national cinemas of Japan and Korea—relations mediated and elided by a long history of state censorship—Park's film repudiates an essentialist South Korean identity propped up by both nationalist narratives and market liberalization policies...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 177–229.
Published: 01 September 2001
... identifications are pursued, rather than
established. In either case, the former must clearly be a process
separate from the identification itself, this being, as Butler
reminds us, a phantasmatic trajectory—not an actual event said
to have taken place.40 Copying or imitating is not equivalent...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 73–105.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... Her frozen body, swathed in yards of body-revealing cloth
and bathed in colored electric lights, was imitated in the count-
less swirling, pastoral designs of posters, photographs, sculptures,
lamps, and other art nouveau objets d’art.3 Fuller’s choreography
resembles what I would describe...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 147–151.
Published: 01 December 1989
... to explicate that process
through an intertextual analysis of feminist film in relation to male-
directed cinema.
In my most recent project (editing a volume on Imitation of Life),
I will return to a consideration of mainstream film. My study will
entail...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 131–175.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... In
that film, widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) falls for her gardener,
the younger, inner-directed, Thoreauvian Ron Kirby (Rock Hud-
son). In the almost electrifying network of condensation and dis-
placement that structures the Haynes film, Far from Heaven also
amalgamates elements drawn from Sirk’s Imitation...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 95–105.
Published: 01 September 1988
... point of view, framing, perspective.
Instead of Lust for Life or Le Mystere Picasso, it's VHypothese du
tableau vole and Gertrud. In other words, the comparison is non•
mimetic; it's about effects rather than imitation. In this respect, Bon•
itzer doesn't merely add to the study of "Painting...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 176–205.
Published: 01 May 1990
... of the revivalist cult of Elvis Presley. This case
of mistaken identity was funny because it suggested the paradox of
the authentic copy. Even as part of a crowd of Elvises, this particular
Elvis impersonator was special; the aura of the “real” thing somehow
gleamed through his cheap imitation...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 1–39.
Published: 01 December 2009
... was diminutive than because Griffith sought
to merge a heroic version of himself, the imitative son, with the
patriarchal figure he so generously and dangerously endowed.
It is as the Little Colonel that Flora’s big brother sutures
the wounded nation through white supremacy. Yet as one wound...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and Sarah Jane in the two film versions of Imitation of
Life (dir. John M. Stahl, US, 1934 and dir. Douglas Sirk, US, 1959)
as “the standard-bearers for popular culture’s spectacular mulata”
(with Mariah Carey as their real-life contemporary sister), Perez
contends that these figures move beyond...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2015
... details of Brown’s virtuosic performance, Jagger’s swagger-
ing imitation, and her own attempts at mimicry: “I ran to the bath-
room and tried to do his [Brown’s] steps while looking in the mir-
ror, trying to figure out his moves, his cadences.”23 She describes
Jagger’s dancing as both captivating...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2024
... authenticity of Riot 's fictional narrative. The telemovie also doesn't exactly imitate that footage in fictional form, a tactic that would have expanded on a similar strategy earlier in Riot in which it recreates a newspaper article reporting on the demonstration that protests Bon's sacking. 35 From...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 95–121.
Published: 01 May 2000
... actress, replaces the exclusion of
other white bodies, diegetic absences in the narrative. In all the
examples Doane explores, in which white actresses play mulatto
characters (Sirk’s Imitation of Life [1959], Pinky, Lost Boundaries
[dir. Alfred Werker, 1949...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 152–153.
Published: 01 September 1996
... Text: Queer Transexions of Race, Nation, and Gender. Vol. 52-53.
Duke University Press, 1997.
A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from
Henry James to Andy Warhol by Michael Moon. Duke University Press, 1998.
Stars: New Edition by Richard Dyer. British Film Institute...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2003
... with the imitation in “real life” of a
scene in a movie. Consequently, neither is “original”; the relation
is not of original to copy but of one copy to another. This calls to
mind Judith Butler’s definition of drag in relation to gender and
its function to bring out the imitativeness and contingency...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 85–127.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., or become rooted in a single spot.”
Although the voice-over commentary in Decodings is read
by a single, ruminative voice, it is markedly polyvocal on a discur-
sive level, as it casually moves between an ironic imitation of the
pseudoscientific discourse of instructional films and the narra...
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Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 71–75.
Published: 01 May 1976
...
Torm, her (presumed) lover. (' 'He has seen it a hundred times. ")
The film ends with a 'real performance', a series of imitations of stills
from G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box or Lulu. The other performers are)ohn
Erdman, ShirleySoffer, Epp Kotkas,)ames Barth, Sarah Soffer, and myself
asdirector...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 7–10.
Published: 01 September 1990
... of the voice in
the course of the conversation. The voice itself is at times modulated
by echoes (Frank’s first “hello” is repeated eight times) in order to
accentuate the physical dimension of language and, above all, to imitate
the journey that words fixed to landscapes make from...
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