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Saving Other Women from Other Men: Disneys Aladdin
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 4–25.
Published: 01 May 1993
..., Aladdin’s rival for the hand of the Sultan’s daughter, Princess
Ja~mineAladdin is turned out in “native dress”-though at first it
is not clear to what land he is native. Soon it is evident that he is a
6 thinly disguised American entrepreneur: he meets Jasmine, his Arab
future wife...
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In a Desert Somewhere between Disney and Las Vegas: The Fantasy of Interracial Harmony and American Multiculturalism in Percy Adlon's Bagdad Cafe
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2000
...
that the film was able to create an uncritical fantasy of multi-
cultural harmony for a West German film audience precisely
because it was situated not in West Germany but in the US, where
the Germanness of the character Jasmin (Marianne Sägebrecht)
enables...
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Making Space: Deborah Willis and the Archive of Black Visual Culture
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 132–141.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jasmine Nichole Cobb In this interview, artist and scholar Deborah Willis describes the work of excavating and organizing the history of Black photography. Willis’s groundbreaking scholarship helped to formally establish an archive of Black visual practice before libraries and cultural institutions...
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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
...Jasmine Hu Abstract The Japanese annexation of Korea (1910–45) implicates a crisis of representation in South Korean national history. Both the traumatic wounds and complex intimacies of Japan's rule over its Korean subjects were met with postcolonial suppression, censorship, and disavowal...
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The Face Is a Politics: A Close-Up View of Julie Dash's Illusions
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 149–183.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... For
Saidiya V. Hartman and Farah Jasmine Griffin, Ester “is both ven-
triloquist and dummy” and “is cast away, like the utterly depleted
body of the whore,” such that Mignon’s “mulatta visibility depends
on the erasure or marginalization of black women.”7 Even as they
acknowledge Dash’s strides...
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Lena Horne's Impersona
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 11–45.
Published: 01 May 2008
....”
In looking to Horne’s vocal production in a particular
scene of her performance — segregated cabarets in the first half of
the twentieth century — I seek to build on and extend the work of
scholars such as Lindon Barrett, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Fred
Moten, who explore the historical...
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Female Surrogate Labor and White Corporeal Debt in Singin’ in the Rain
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Biography File, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, CA. 53. Assistant Director's Reports, Singin’ in the Rain , 18 June–13 August, Freed Collection, USC. Production records indicate that Alma Maison was Reynolds's stand-in. 54. Jasmine...
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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
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This elision becomes more troubling once the film enters
the cross-cultural domain. There, the film is sanctioned as an
authentic representation of social reality because, as Jasmin Dar-
znik suggests, The Apple is “a story that the West has been wait-
ing for Iran to tell about itself.”45 Trinh...
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Spectacles of History: Race Relations, Melodrama, and the Science Fiction/Disaster Film
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 109–153.
Published: 01 September 2002
... by NASA, and in the same scene tells
Wilder that he is thinking of marrying his girlfriend Jasmine.
Wilder delivers both the bad news of his rejection and the “truth”
about the world: “You know what you have to do? You have to kiss
some serious booty to get ahead in this world.” And later, “You
know...
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Agnès Varda and Le Collectif 50/50 en 2020: Power and Protest at the Cannes Film Festival
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 127–153.
Published: 01 May 2021
.../the-festivals (accessed 10 May 2020). 23. Maha Dakhil represented the American Time's Up; Audrey Gagneux and Kate Kinninmont represented Time's Up UK; Sarah Calderon represented the Spanish Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media Artists (CIMA); Jasmine Trinca and Ginevra Elkann...
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The Minor Transnationalism of Queer Asian Cinema: Female Authorship and the Short Film Format
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., Eva Tang, Jasmine
Ng Kin-Kia, and Kaz Cai — need to be regarded as part of a wider,
coterminous development of independent filmmaking by women
in the Asian region.21 Considered in this light, women’s filmmaking
within Asian cinema, and in particular queer Asian cinema, can
most accurately...
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Finding Home in Bend It Like Beckham and Last Resor t
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2011
... broadly reflecting
the exclusionary migration practices of “Fortress Europe,” such as
Beautiful People (dir. Jasmin Dizdar, UK, 1999), Dirty Pretty Things,
L’assedio (Besieged, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy/UK, 1998), and
Jalla! Jalla! (dir. Josef Fares, Sweden, 2000).
There are obvious...
