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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 11–45.
Published: 01 May 2008
... an “unperforming of the self” through the cultivation of an impersonal intimacy that deferred a fixed subjectivity and frustrated the racial expectations of her audiences. She developed this impersona through three interlocking tactics: a disarticulation of self and song; a reversal of the psychic positions...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 176–205.
Published: 01 May 1990
...
of his image.
Impersonators at the EPIIA
178 With the aid of these savvy business minds, Elvis, like Jumbo, has
become a semiotic system of preservation. Indeed, much as Donna
Haraway has argued about the goals of taxidermy in general., pres-
ervation aims to arrest...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 1–39.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of pantomime that had
Reconstructing Shirley • 7
been a hallmark of the silent era — including child impersonation —
began to seem increasingly obsolete. As with the racial masquerade
of blackface, the popular practice of adult stars impersonating chil-
dren...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 197–227.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., her screen persona grew even younger, until she
was, for all intents and purposes, a child impersonator.
In 1914, an industry trade magazine, The Bioscope, pub-
lished a review of the Pickford box office hit, Tess of the Storm Coun-
Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 53–70.
Published: 01 May 1976
... fixture will
be read, at least at first sight, as "out of place" in a dance.) The repetition
of common movements gave the dance an impersonal, object-like aspect, 55
as did the avoidance of eye contact between dancer and audience, or the
painted-out face. The interchangeability of objects...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 69–87.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and its driver, and been
denied service at a diner for being a “hippie” — she seeks refuge in
a drag club. There she is welcomed and showered with affection by
female impersonators playing Bette Davis, Diana Ross, Barbra Strei
Devouring the Diva • 77...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 64–87.
Published: 01 September 1990
...-in the sense of non-mental-status of the sensible image
of the table, the table from a particular perspective in space and time,
for it can exist apart from the mind-indeed, never need have existed
in a mind. It achieves a kind of objectivity in the form of a neutral
and impersonal...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 120–131.
Published: 01 September 1983
... cultural forms, e.g., the somewhat
indiscriminate addition of Ancient Greek, Roman, or other classic forms
and styles in post-war home architectural design, muzak, Las Vegas-style
female impersonation, and the mass commodification of trinkets,
figurines, and paintings whose primary function...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... a transitive impersonation of what
she essentially is. The extravagance of the art deco idiom thus did
The Art of Screen Passing • 173
not simply signal Orientalism at its extreme; it also created a hypo-
thetical site where Wong could play the Orientalist game...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 71–75.
Published: 01 May 1976
.... The subject-
ive, obsessive eye of the camera combined with the dry impersonal tone
ofthe narrationcreatesa constant flux oftension, absurdity, intense drama,
and pathos. This, Rainer's second feature-length film, reveals a growing
virtuosity in the use of parataxic* techniques to control...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 30–67.
Published: 01 May 1988
..., impersonating [my emphasis] simultaneously object
and subject. Also in the masochistic attitude toward life there is generally
no object discernible that imposes the suffering and is independent of the
ego. It is certainly extant in phantasy, but it does not appear in reality...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., Wilson performed a double sex
transformation by posing as a man impersonating a woman. Wil-
son wrote in the accompanying text: “Form determines feeling,
so that if I pose in a role I can experience a foreign emotion.”
This laconic statement is unclear...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 42–69.
Published: 01 May 1990
... of the female body as a sexed and sensuous object. She is a
low-other7 dragged up from the working-class saloon, who succeeds
not through impersonation but- to the degree that she reveals herself
to be what she is.
If to Olive Logan burlesque performers were a nude army erupting
from the show...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 1–5.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to the negatives that make up photography’s evi-
dentiary archives, from the shaded imitations and impersonations
of theatrical performativity to the shadows of cinematic illusion-
ism, from TV in “black and white” and then in “living color” to
digital dreams of recombination and even genetic recoding: our...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 4–7.
Published: 01 May 1990
... fiction universes, the fans express their concerns about con-
temporary problems and their hopes for a better future.
Lynn Spigel’s “Communicating With the Dead: Elvis as Medium”
investigates this sense of history arnong fans who participate in musical
revivals staged by Elvis impersonators...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 134–139.
Published: 01 September 2007
... bodyguard Atila Altaunbay, and most re
cently, with Viscount Ivor Mervyn Vigors Guest; her rumored sado
masochistic tryst with the fashion designer Kenzo; her Helmut New
ton and Robert Mapplethorpe photo shoots; her Marlene Dietrich
impersonations; her 1989 drug bust; her 1992 bankruptcy; and her...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 77–111.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., it is not until the de-
nouement that we are permitted to experience the pure vaudevil-
lian attraction during Handell Fane’s female impersonation tra-
peze act, and even then it only serves to remind us that visual
pleasure beyond the gaze is no longer an option in Hitchcock’s
anxious narratives...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 127–133.
Published: 01 September 2007
... romance straight out of Freud: the child fantasizing
that the parents who raised her are impostors (impersonators?) and
that her real parents — who are, of course, far grander in every way
than her sham parents — will someday come to claim her. Here’s
the catch: I was adopted. Thus, however remote...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 61–89.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., and unrealized dimensions. 24 For Leo Bersani, the blurred distinctions between individuals during cruising promotes a sense of impersonal connectedness he calls an “ecological ethics” that tempers our sense of self-possession into “an impersonal rhythm.” 29 Quoting Georg Simmel, for Bersani...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2011
...
is “worn by a lady, and my favorite lady from Hollywood is Mae
West.” With this declaration, Jason puts on the hat, rises, and
begins to impersonate, to act out, scenes from West films. What
follows is a pure camp spectacle. Jason tightens his mouth and
saunters around the room. His performance...
