... the Diva: Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle Introduction: The Good, the Bad, and the Fabulous; or, The Diva Issue Strikes Back Alexander Doty Since putting issue 65 (aka: “Fabulous! Divas, Part 1”) “to bed,” as they say, there has been quite a bit of diva activity to report. Origi- nally...

...Huike Wen Dwelling Narrowness ( Wo ju , translated literally as “snail dwelling”) became Chinese netizens' “favorite TV drama” in 2009. In this paper, I focus on a complex of issues in contemporary Chinese society about which Dwelling Narrowness provoked extensive discussion: love, sex...

...Jihoon Kim This article examines a series of video works by Okin Collective, a group of three Korean artists (Jin Shiu, Kim Hwayong, and Yi Joungmin) who have over the past few years been productively concerned with an array of political, social, and cultural issues from both local and global...

...Therese Davis; Belinda Smaill This introduction to the special issue titled “The Place of the Contemporary Female Director” outlines the genesis of the issue and aims of the editors. Building on a workshop that took place in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, in 2011...

...Colleen Jankovic; Nadia Awad While expanding critiques of pinkwashing have drawn increasing attention to how queer issues in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories are perniciously mobilized by a network of lobby groups, Brand Israel initiatives, and international gay and lesbian...

... and fabrications that are resorted to by those groups convinced that queers should side uncritically with Israel on all issues, simply because of Israel's recent pro-gay stances on various issues. The central portion of “Pinkface” presents Greyson's response to the op-eds and full-page ads of noted Canadian...

...the Camera Obscura collective In honor of the journal's fortieth anniversary, this special issue of Camera Obscura considers theories and practices of collectivity. Camera Obscura has operated through a feminist editorial collective since its beginnings in the 1970s, a time when many forms...

...Lynne Joyrich; Misha Kavka; Brenda R. Weber This introduction to the special issue “Project Reality TV” interrogates, while also playing with, some of TV's forms and conventions, particularly those of the “preshow special” and the interview format. Borrowing from this format, it explores key issues...

...the Camera Obscura collective In honor of the journal's fortieth anniversary, this special issue of Camera Obscura considers theories and practices of collectivity. Camera Obscura has operated through a feminist editorial collective since its beginnings in the 1970s, a time when many forms...

...Patricia White This introduction to the hundredth issue of Camera Obscura , on filmmaker, writer, and installation artist Chantal Akerman, establishes the importance of Akerman’s work to the history and perspective of the journal, as well as the journal’s central role in the history and concerns...

... pleasure. The story explicitly situates this technology of cognitive modification in relation to new media technologies. The attitude toward embodiment implicit both in the story and in the cultural and scientific contexts within which it emerges opens out onto a larger set of theoretical issues, which I...

... cannot be understood without examining how allegory produces meaning, and what saves allegory from a nihilistic surplus of meaning in the film is the figure of alterity, which in this film has become an allegorical emblem. The cinematic logic of this film, which stages racial and biopolitical issues...

.... The author argues that Vertigo is potentially many films, possibly about many of the issues attributed to it, but one that does not simply represent theoretical and philosophical points. It is a film that both transforms with new theoretical readings or filmic offshoots and questions these readings...

... of the challenges they faced in making the documentary, and the subsequent outreach campaign for raising awareness about social justice and human rights issues on the Mexico-US border. Camera Obscura 2010 Rosa-Linda Fregoso is a professor and former chair of Latin American and Latino studies...

... reveals her attempts to fit into the male-dominated business of film directing by distancing herself from gender issues, while simultaneously aligning herself with traditionally male-identified traits, such as toughness and the desire for control. Articles appearing during this time also routinely mention...

...), and Invaders from Mars (dir. William Cameron Menzies, US) — with an eye toward the Oedipal issues that the shared structure helps to express. In conclusion, the use of psychoanalysis as a scholarly tool is debated. Chris Dumas is the author of Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political...

...Tess Takahashi This article examines the legacy of issues of representation in the International Experimental Media Congress held in Toronto in April of 2010, twenty years after the contentious 1989 International Experimental Film Congress. On the surface, the two events embraced the same stated...

... into university settings, where it has students organize, market, and host the event. This essay examines the issues attendant with bringing LUNAFEST onto college campuses. On the one hand, LUNAFEST encourages and supports the exhibition of women filmmakers, a laudable endeavor. On the other hand, as a corporate...

... of the early 1980s, the author goes on to explore the reasons for the continuing underrepresentation of women in the ranks of film directing. Moving beyond statistics and hiring practices, the article raises issues of psychological formation that impede women's full participation to this day. B. Ruby...

... noir and anticommunism — as well as to demonstrate the way in which the discourse of anticommunism is intimately related, via the metaphor of marriage, to issues such as gender and sexuality. The crux of the essay is the argument that the political discourse of anticommunism cannot be dissociated from...