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Bahram Bayzai's Maybe...Some Other Time : The un-Present-able Iran
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 163–191.
Published: 01 May 2000
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Bahram Bayzai’s
Maybe . . . Some Other Time:
The un-Present-able Iran
Negar Mottahedeh
In a paper given in Paris and published in Iran-nameh’s special...
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A New Form for a New People: Forugh Farrokhzad's The House Is Black
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Sara Saljoughi This article examines the problem of collectivity in Forugh Farrokhzad's The House Is Black ( Khaneh siah ast , Iran, 1962), an experimental film set in a leper colony in northwestern Iran. Focusing on the film's experiments with form, the article explores how the development of new...
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The Object-Voice: The Acousmatic Voice in the New Iranian Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 57–81.
Published: 01 May 2018
... the film sound theorist Michel Chion calls the acousmêtre , or the acousmatic voice. By bringing together Chion, Lacan, and feminist film theory, the article analyzes the acousmatization of the male voice in Gabbeh (dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran/France, 1996) and Banoo-ye ordibehesht ( The May Lady , dir...
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Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Nazli Akhtari Abstract This article reveals how engagements with the photographic archives of premodern Iran and the Persian carpet break open transtemporal, affective, and queer interplays in diaspora. Examining a digital remix of a photograph of a Qajar princess, ‘Ismat al-Dowlah, from...
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Women in a Widening Frame: (Cross-)Cultural Projection, Spectatorship, and Iranian Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 1–33.
Published: 01 September 2005
... is currently completing a monograph on the representation of Arab/Muslim women in contemporary literature and visual media. A rare glimpse of Tahereh’s face in Through the Olive Trees
(Zire darakhatan zeyton) (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, France/
Iran, 1994). Courtesy Artifi cial Eye
Women in a Widening Frame...
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The Documentaries of Kim Longinotto: Women, Change, and Painful Modernity
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 43–75.
Published: 01 September 2009
... documentaries frequently focus on women and children in not only the United Kingdom but also in cultures as diverse as Japan, Iran, and nations in Africa. This essay explores four of her most well-known recent documentaries, Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001), both made in Tehran and codirected...
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Allegory and the Aesthetics of Becoming-Woman in Marziyeh Meshkini's The Day I Became a Woman
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2007
...). The Day I Became a Woman (dir. Marziyeh Meshkini, Iran, 2000)
Allegory and the Aesthetics
of Becoming-Woman in
Marziyeh Meshkini’s
The Day I Became a Woman
Michelle Langford
Why should I stop, why?
The birds have gone off to find water ways
the horizon is vertical and moving...
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Shampoo: Editing, Advertising, and Codes of Modesty on Saudi Arabian Television
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 91–121.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to Iranian cinema, since this subject has garnered
significant attention within the Western academic canon. In his
seminal essay, “Veiled Visions/Powerful Presences: Women in Post-
revolutionary Iranian Cinema,” Hamid Naficy argues that the insti-
tutionalization of modesty in Iran, as formulated...
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Appropriate Feminisms: Ambivalence and Citational Practice in Appropriate Behavior
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 145–177.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Keshavarz's Circumstance (France/US/Iran, 2011) in which four Iranian teenagers dub the show into Farsi for a prohibited underground black-market double bill with Gus van Sant's gay biopic Milk (US, 2008). 39 Even the 2021 SATC reboot And Just Like That (HBO Max), released long after the Akhavan...
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Evolving Narrative Structures Forge New Cine-Love at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Circumstance (France/
US/Iran,
Over the past ve years, there has been a marked increase
in the number of independent lms by people of color, many of
which centrally engage sexuality and have premiered at various
festivals across the US. To name a few: Terrance Nance’s An Over-
simpli cation...
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Cinema, Taliban, and Being a Woman in Today's Afghanistan: An Interview with Sahraa Karimi
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 203–212.
Published: 01 December 2023
...,” and “an artist challenging society.” 3 She was born in Afghanistan in 1985, raised in Iran, and received her PhD from the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2012 Karimi returned to Afghanistan and contributed to establishing Kapila Multimedia...
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The World and the Soup: Historicizing Media Feminisms in Transnational Contexts
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
Published: 01 December 2009
... in
the mid-sixties, the company established regional construction
subsidiaries that gradually spread to all of France. After being
listed on the Paris stock exchange in 1970, the company began
international operations with construction projects in Iran. Two
years later, it established...
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The Mysteries of Voice: Love and Transnational Identification in Performing the Border, The Price of Sex , and Señorita extraviada
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Longinotto, both Patricia White
and Belinda Smaill grapple with the related questions of transla-
tion and cultural difference that structure the British filmmak-
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Erasure: Alienation, Paranoia, and the Loss of Memory in The X-Files
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 195–225.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., discussions of alien abduction moved into mainstream
media in a pronounced way in 1987, the year of Black Monday,
the Iran-Contra scandals, and, perhaps most pertinently, a ris-
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Diasporic Erotic: Love, Loss, and the Copy
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and Veiled Sister: Islamic
Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2005), 60 – 61.
29. Nguyen Ngac and Nguyen Van Luan, Un siecle d’histoire de la robe
des Vietnamiennes (Saigon: Direction des Affaires Culturelles...
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Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the Paranoid Structure of History
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 75–102.
Published: 01 May 1997
..., or radiation experiments on terminal
patients, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Roswell, the Tuskegee experiments?
Where will it end?” Including Roswell, the supposed site of a UFO
crash in 1947, in this list blurs distinctions between truth and fiction,
real and hypothesized cover-ups, and provokes the only...
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Notes on Digital Community and Revolution
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 99–131.
Published: 01 December 2016
... movements. This is pre-
mised on the familiar trope of interactive media as inherently dem-
ocratic, now reprised in a form that promises collective, rather than
individual, empowerment. The use of the phrase “Twitter revolu-
tion” to describe the recent antigovernment protests in Moldova,
Iran...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
Published: 01 September 2009
... pioneering work on the history of ornament, the art historian
Alois Riegl writes of the “enormous resistance to making ‘mere
ornament’ the basic theme of a more ambitious historical study.”67
His research draws heavily on the work of archaeologists in Egypt,
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