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The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 102–110.
Published: 01 September 1983
...Lea Jacobs Fredric Jameson. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981) © 1983 by Camera Obscura 1983 Book Reviews
Nina and the Book (Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau, 1922)
The Political...
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Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 215–234.
Published: 01 September 1985
..., and as the introductory chapter explains, she wants to use 223
Frederic Jameson’s “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture.” 14 In that
article Jameson took issue with Frankfurt School theory by arguing that
mass art does not simply serve the interests of capitalism; it also criticizes
and negates the social...
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The Mercator of the Postmodern: Mapping the Great Divide
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 67–79.
Published: 01 September 1988
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of the postmodern debate is because it has been conducted among
what is largely a male constellation. Habermas, Lyotard, Jameson,
Rorty, Jencks have formed the register of requisite footnotes which
delimit the debate. As initial authorities on the postmodern they have
determined the terms...
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Carnal Knowledge: Visuality and the Modern in Charulata
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 155–186.
Published: 01 January 1996
... their alterity. This is in stark contrast to perspectives
that conveniently dissipate the problem of cultural difference into either
"situational" expressions of a global allegory of the modern (Jameson)
or, at best, "hybrid" stories of post-colonial consciousness (Bhabha...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 174–178.
Published: 01 September 1991
... by Tom Gunning. University of Illinois Press, 1991. $42.50.
Signatures of the Visible by Fredric Jameson. Routledge, 1990. $25.00.
Explorations in Film Theory: Selected Essays from Cink-Tracts edited by Ron
Burnett. Indiana University Press, 1991. $14.95.
Issues in Feminist Film Criticism...
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Sumiko Higashi
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 179–183.
Published: 01 December 1989
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as a Latin lover during the years of the notorious Sacco and Vanzetti
case. Was this just a coincidence? As Fredric Jameson argues in The
Political Unconscious (1981),history is a subtext repressed or denied
by the text and can be grasped as a “symbolic move in an essentially...
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Melodrama's Other: Entrapment and Escape in the Films of Tom Tykwer
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 108–143.
Published: 01 September 2006
.../Postmodern?
In addition to the nonlinear narrative elements I have mentioned,
postmodern film style is characterized by formalism, pastiche,
and overcoded citations of filmic and cultural moments that in
Fredric Jameson’s terms engender a “nostalgia for the present.”5
In other words...
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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
... as its output.
— Anthony Stafford Beer, Designing Freedom
What is important in a Utopia is not what can be positively
imagined and proposed, but rather what is not imaginable
and not conceivable.
— Fredric Jameson, “Utopia as Replication”
Attempts to formalize a relationship between...
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Veronica Clare and the New Film Noir Heroine
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 76–101.
Published: 01 May 1994
... set of objects, clothing, etc., as a manifestation of, or even
the ontological essence of, the self. In these ways, subjectivity still acts 95
as an organizationaVjuridicaVmarketing strategy, despite what Jameson
describes as the “death of the subject” in postmodernism. “[N]obody,”
he writes...
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The M-m-mama of Us All: Divas and the Cultural Logic of Late Ca(m)pitalism
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 11–37.
Published: 01 September 2007
... camp to Fredric Jameson’s “blank parody,” she does
not consider the role of camp in the text of postmodernism itself,
instead labeling such comparisons “ahistorical.”28 Although Andy
Warhol plays a pivotal role in Jameson’s description of the postmod-
ern aesthetic in his famous essay (whose...
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Pleasure Aesthetics: On the Art of Mika Rottenberg
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 71–102.
Published: 01 September 2024
... “scopophilic” theory of male-gaze “visual pleasure.” See Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in Feminist Film Theory: A Reader , ed. Sue Thornham (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999), 58–69. 13. See Jameson, Postmodernism , 50–51. See also Alberto Toscano and Jeff Kinkle, C...
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The Actress Experience: Cruel Knowing and the Death of the Picture Personality in Black Swan and The Girlfriend Experience
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 1–35.
Published: 01 May 2013
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US, 2009); a role in an award-winning film in the Best Anal Sex
Scene category (Anal Cavity Search 6 [dir. Erik Everhard, US,
2008 and the Jenna Jameson Crossover Star of the Year award.
The next year, a very different star stands on another red car-
pet. This time it is Los Angeles...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 156.
Published: 01 September 1988
.... $13.95.
TheIdeologies ofHistory:Essays 1971-1986. Volume I: Situations ofTheory;
Volume II: Syntax of History by Fredric Jameson. University of Minnesota
Press, 1988. $12.95 each.
The College of Sociology (1937-39) edited by Denis Hollier. University of
Minnesota...
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“Jackie Treehorn Treats Objects Like Women!”: Two Types of Fetishism in The Big Lebowski
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 111–135.
Published: 01 December 2008
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larly in this instance, has to do with mediation and is at least as old
as Freud: how can we coordinate the public and the private, the
social and the psychic? As Fredric Jameson points out, Freud intro-
duces this particular problematic as early as in “Creative Writers
and Daydreaming,” in which...
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Endangered Humans?: Wired Bodies and the Human Wilds in Carnosaur, Carnosaur 2 , and 12 Monkeys
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 226–242.
Published: 01 May 1997
..., ca ble-laden facility disorient and disperse
their human subjects. Like Jameson’s observations about “postmodern
hyperspace,” these hallways transcend “the capacities of the individ-
ual human body to locate itself, to organize its immediate surround-
ings perceptually, and cognitively...
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Feminism and Film History
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 8–27.
Published: 01 January 1990
... of the spectator-subject). As Fredric Jameson has remarked,
there are always two historicities, two paths of historical inquiry: “the
path of the object, and the path of the subject, the historical origins
of the things themselves and that more intangible historicity of the
concepts...
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The Playhouse of the Signifier: Reading Pee-wee Herman
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 155–168.
Published: 01 May 1988
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Fredric Jameson has taught us to think of the products of mass
culture in terms of reification and utopia, the two poles of a dialectic
at work in every text simultane~usly.~Much as Walter Benjamin argued
that there is no document of culture that is not at the same time...
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Turkish Cinema in the New Europe: Visualizing Ethnic Conflict in Sinan Çetin's Berlin in Berlin
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 105–149.
Published: 01 September 2000
... a particular vision of gendered rela-
tionships and his claim to the unreciprocating object of his desire.
It would thus be tempting to think of Çetin’s film as proffering ele-
ments of what Frederic Jameson has termed “national allegories.”
Jameson coins...
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Bringing Up Babe
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 149–187.
Published: 01 May 2002
... decon-
structive text, depicting individuals and centers as “necessary fail-
ures” that, as Fredric Jameson explains, “inscribe the particular
postmodern project back into its context, while at the same time
reopening the question of the modern itself for reexamination.”7
At the end of the film...
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All that Television Allows: TV Melodrama, Postmodernism and Consumer Culture
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 128–153.
Published: 01 January 1988
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III. Simulated Sentiment
It is not surprising that today's media-saturated society has been linked,
in Mulvey's analysis for example, to the end of melodrama. As Fredric
Jameson remarks, postmodernism is repeatedly marked by such "senses
of the end of this or that the hypothesis of some...
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