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Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2022
... performance and accented voice synchronous sound cinema interwar US cinema The 1931 Paramount production Daughter of the Dragon (dir. Lloyd Corrigan, US) belongs to the array of yellow peril thrillers that capitalized on the popular Dr. Fu Manchu series. In contrast to other Fu Manchu films...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2005
... and Japan, sound
and silent cinema coexisted until well into the 1930s. Zhang Zhen
has argued that the term early cinema be used to refer to the silent
Chinese cinema before 1949 in order to stress the different tempo-
rality of this film practice.6 Within the shadow of foreign imports,
Asian...
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Naruse Mikio's Silent Films: Gender and the Discourse of Everyday Life in Interwar Japan
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 57–89.
Published: 01 December 2005
... a key
component of the emerging mass publics in the “modernizing
capitals of the world” (337). Hansen uses the term vernacular mod-
ernism to refer to the cultural practice of classical cinema — its
reproduction of the experience of modernity, its industrialized
means of production, and its...
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Imaging Modern Girls in the Japanese Woman's Film
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 15–55.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., for
instance, is cast within a broad range of influences that include
the US, other foreign models, and transforming local traditions
as well. Such work as Miriam Hansen’s essay on Shanghai and
Soviet cinemas in the interwar period effectively shifts the
issues of text/intertext...
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Maria Hirszbein: An (In)visible Figure of Polish Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 61–83.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of a national Polish cinema; however, it underscores the agency of women in the modern era, in which the term “New Woman,” which had already been used toward the end of the previous century as an antithesis of the Victorian concept of femininity, took on a real meaning. The professional life of Maria Hirszbein...
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Making “Women's News”: French Feminists of la Femme nouvelle (1934–36) and the Newsreel Magazine Actualités féminines
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Maya Sidhu Abstract This article demonstrates how the interwar French suffragist organization la Femme nouvelle used the platform of the newsreel to make political claims through its collaboration with Pathé’s newsreel magazine Actualités féminines or Women's News . Through the filming...
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Choreographing Homosexual Desire in Philippe Vallois's Johan
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
Published: 01 December 2013
... hetero-French
civilization.26 French “interwar critics were obsessed with the dis-
solution of the body’s metaphorical boundaries,” Dean informs
us, “a dissolution symbolized above all by pornography and homo-
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sexuality.”27 The Parisian stage on which Nijinsky’s “strange...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
Published: 01 September 2009
... European Cinema: Redrawing the Map (Columbia University Press, 2006) and essays in journals such as Screen, Cinema Journal , and Discourse . She is currently researching a book on the pretty. The decorative surface of the screen in Moulin Rouge!
(dir. Baz Luhrmann, Australia/US, 2001)
Pretty...
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Fassbinder's Debt to Poussin
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 3–27.
Published: 01 September 1985
... of Nicolas
Poussin’s Midas and Dionysos. Spread like wallpaper across an entire back
wall of Petra’s bedroom, the frameless tableau peers out from behind a
clutter of furniture and objects crowded between the camera and the copy,
in shots that use lighting, composition and actors’ bodies to draw...
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Symmetry, Violence, and The Handmaiden 's Queer Colonial Intimacies
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the film's use of what Linda Williams terms the “sexually saturated” female body to unsettle and cut through a politically and affectively saturated history. 7 In particular, I track the various meanings of symmetry in the film and argue that the formal symmetry of its sex scenes thematically coincides...
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Contagion and the Boundaries of the Visible: The Cinema of World Health
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2002
... in the Audiovisual Discourse of World Health” for publication.
Contagion and the Boundaries
of the Visible: The Cinema of
World Health
Kirsten Ostherr
World Health and the Dialectics of
Visibility and Invisibility
Even a cursory glance at contemporary US film and television
reveals...
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“Light Filtering through Those Shutters”: Joyless Street s, Mnemic Symbols, and the Beginnings of Feminist Film Criticism
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 63–95.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Jenelle Troxell This article examines the origin myth of the feminist film journal Close Up , namely, an excursion by its founders Bryher and H.D. to see G. W. Pabst’s Die freudlose Gasse ( The Joyless Street , 1925) in a small cinema in Montreux, Switzerland. Throughout the essay, I use Joyless...
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The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong's Yellow Yellowface Performance in the Art Deco Era
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of forms, including high-profile exhibi-
tions of her films in large US cities; the publication of two biogra-
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phies;1 a play titled China Doll;2...
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Picture This: Lillian Gilbreth's Industrial Cinema for the Home
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 103–133.
Published: 01 December 2006
... American animation. Generating a chronophotograph of typing in the Gilbreth
studio/laboratory. Rather than producing the illusion
of motion, here the motion-picture camera is used to
deanimate the working woman’s body. Courtesy of the
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Library of Management, Purdue...
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A Multicultural Conversation: La Haine , Raï , and Menace II Society
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 143–179.
Published: 01 May 2001
... Hughes, US, 1991).
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A Multicultural Conversation:
La Haine, Raï,
and Menace II Society
Erin Schroeder
Since the 1980s, studies of contemporary French culture have...
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Strategic Sentimentality: Nostalgia and the Work of Eleanor Antin
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 129–167.
Published: 01 December 2007
... attention up until that point. The
exhibition and its surrogate, the catalog, revive some of her older
work, reacquainting us with her characters and her particular
sense of humor and chutzpah, as if with long-lost friends. The
ephemeral nature of much of Antin’s work has meant that many
have...
