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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2008
... 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...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 141–151.
Published: 01 December 2016
...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...
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Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
Published: 01 September 2014
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 1–3.
Published: 01 May 2014
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 1–11.
Published: 01 May 2019
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2016
...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...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2015
...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...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2016
...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...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2012
...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...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 145–153.
Published: 01 September 2012
... 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...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 1–19.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Hester Baer; Angelica Fenner Setting the stage for this special issue of Camera Obscura , the introduction makes the case for German cinema as a renewed site for the theorization of women’s film authorship and feminist film production today. German cinema presents an especially generative case...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 163–183.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Edited by Eva Kuhn; Ute Holl In October 2016, we organized a symposium in Basel, Switzerland, in commemoration of Chantal Akerman. Through screenings of her films, as well as talks, presentations, and accounts of friends and collaborators, the event focused on issues of remembering and forgetting...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 103–131.
Published: 01 September 2019
... ago. This article discusses why Arendt remains such a divisive figure and why her intellectual legacy is still so unsettling, particularly for Zionists. The essay examines how these issues are represented, negotiated, and problematized in Margarethe von Trotta’s film Hannah Arendt (Germany/ Luxembourg...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 63–95.
Published: 01 December 2019
... writers’ engagement of psychoanalysis focuses on issues of history, memory, and the response of spectators to historically specific situations. Their theory further suggests that in addition to surrogate fantasy fulfillment, film—in its recurring representation of trauma—might aid in mastering shared...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 77–107.
Published: 01 May 2020
.../France, 2012)—showing how the Cambodian genocide is for the first time dealt with as a gendered genocide, breaking the taboo issues of forced marriage (a unique form of genocide in the world) and rape. A detailed analysis of Red Wedding describes how the meaning of forced marriage and rape is framed...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Lilia Kilburn This article responds to the call, long latent in queer theory, for more nuanced portrayals of vocality. As Andrew Anastasia writes in the introductory issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly , accounts of vocality that consider only the voice’s discursive or linguistic qualities...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 154–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Anuj Vaidya; Tejal Shah In this performative co-interview, the unicorn (Tejal Shah) and the larva (Anuj Vaidya) reflect on their artistic practice, and the trajectory of their work from addressing issues of queer sexuality to those of queer ecology. Anuj and Tejal met at the School of the Art...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 61–83.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to social issues. In reconstructing Hirszbein's professional biography, the text combines different sources such as press reports, film reviews, photographs from the collection of the Polish National Film Archive (FINA), and data collected by the Institute of Jewish History in Warsaw...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Marusya Bociurkiw From 1972 to the early 1990s, Canadian feminist media collectives created dozens of social-issue documentaries and television series, producing an ephemeral archive of a vibrant era of political and social change. This article discusses the loss and/or deterioration...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
... consumers and to frame the HIV epidemic as an issue to be addressed largely through rational individual choice and integration into commercial markets. The behavior change it promotes and represents relies on securing female reproductive heterosexuality and the family. The melodramatic mode has proven vital...
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