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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Irene Gustafson This article analyzes Shirley Clarke's seminal film, Portrait of Jason (US, 1967). Through an examination of the film's formal qualities within the context of its production and reception, this article argues that the film is best understood as a “screen test.” The relatively scant...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 103–123.
Published: 01 September 2007
...
james and jason: Yeah, yeah.
joan: I want it to be fabulous.
james and jason (chuckling): Yeah, yeah.
joan: I wanted her that I’m playing, which in that case was Gloria, I
wanted her to be fabulous, and sometimes you get it on the first take.
The producer/director told me on Young...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of Modern Family, writ. Bill Wrubel
and Dan O’Shannon, dir. Steven Levitan, prod. Lloyd- Levitan
Productions, ABC, 12 May 2010; “Dude Ranch,” season 3,
episode 1 of Modern Family, writ. Paul Corrigan, Brad Walsh,
and Dan O’Shannon, dir. Jason Winer, prod. Lloyd- Levitan...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 31–57.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of Charlottesville. After an African American high school sophomore started a petition in early 2016 that was taken up by the city's youthful and also African American vice-mayor, Wes Bellamy, to remove the Robert E. Lee statue and rename the downtown park over which it loomed, a match was lit. Jason Kessler...
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“How much did you pay for this place?” Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 69–91.
Published: 01 January 1996
... in this genre, the fear-provoking figures of Jason Vorhees and
Freddy Krueger emerge foremost in the context of a territorial struggle
between those who own property and the cooks, janitors, and caretakers
whose labor earns them the right to live there. Freddy is a maintenance
man who lives in the basement...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 60–91.
Published: 01 May 1996
... for Marcy, had left, we asked Marcy's son Jason and
the other boys to come into the living room, which contained a large
console television and a VCR. I ordered pizzas for delivery while the
kids gathered around the TV.
The kids' movement from the back room to the front of the house
was significant...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 127–133.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., I wanted to be Judy (and I think M. did too). But
what if I loved and did theater as a way to have Judy and not simply
to become her? And what if M. and I were mad for each other as
a way to, well, take turns having and doing Judy? As the gender
theorist Jennifer Jason Leigh reminds us...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 71–99.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Americanarticle by the two scien-
tists makes several connections between television and addiction,
claiming that “most of the criteria of substance dependence can
apply to people who watch a lot of TV.”15
As Jason Mittell points out, television has always been asso-
ciated with metaphors of drugs...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 191–217.
Published: 01 May 2024
... complexity in this instance is not used to evoke feelings of pleasure via narrative decoding or problem-solving (what Jason Mittell calls television narrative “pyrotechnics”) but instead to challenge our investments in a type of narrative—here, the version of the rape narrative that has historically been...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 90–107.
Published: 01 May 1990
... matinees were run precisely this way.
In Hays’s 1925 annual report, he noted the efforts of the M.P.P.D.A.’s
Film Board of Trade to control this menace, while Jason Joy, in an
early statement on the matinee plan, argued that it was unwise to
show movies to children for free because it had...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of these works took one of a handful of characters and
sent them on increasingly exotic adventures: Hercules, Maciste,
Samson, Jason, Ursus, Goliath, and a few others.8 In the American
versions, almost all of these characters became Hercules (or “son
of Hercules” on late-night television). All...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 39–71.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., a Los
Angeles Times journalist noted that the only way you could not know
about the musical Wicked would be if you “haven’t been following
Broadway or living with adolescent” girls.9 The New York Times
critic Jason Zinoman wrote disparagingly that Wicked’s “popularity
among teenage...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 161–183.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., 2003), and the parodied hypermasculinity
of Duke Nukem (n-Space, 2000).10 Examining Silent Hill as another
alternative to usual male characterizations, rather than consider-
ing the wider construction of masculinity in video games, has many
benefits. The observation made by Jo Bryce and Jason...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 95–105.
Published: 01 September 1988
... of painting,
provides us with several potent shots of masked figuresat a distance, figures 105
that, like Jason in Friday the 13th, terrify by virtue of their visual inac•
cessibility-much as Max Ernst's Two Children areThreatened by a Night-
ingale produces a terror-effect for the spectator...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... audiences of this
period.50 The integration of theatrical animated shorts into the
flow of screen entertainment programs appears to have contin-
ued in the early television era. Jason Mittell notes that throughout
this period, made-for-television animation attracted high percent-
ages of older...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
Published: 01 September 2017
... highlighting the expressive range of
“small” short-duration games like Passage ( Jason Rohrer, 2007),
which Destructoid called the “greatest five-minute-long game ever
made.”2 By 2014, a roster of queer-designed games made primarily
by transgender women — Dys4ia (Anna Anthropy, 2012), Mainichi...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 155–165.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... Alexander R. Galloway and
Jason E. Smith (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2010); Alexander R.
Galloway and Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: A Theory of Networks
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
4. Galloway and Thacker, Exploit, 135.
5. Dean Spade, Normal Life...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 109–149.
Published: 01 September 2013
... were
quick to appreciate it. Yes, it was the darling of the New Yorker and
the Village Voice. Yes, it had “hip cachet,” as Jason Mittell notes.58
But, in fact, it was a ratings sensation, besting even the previously
unbeatable Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (NBC, 1962 – 92)
in some...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
... they
will meet for her to announce the pregnancy, the men’s antics pro-
voke confusion on Alison’s part and threaten to jam the conver-
sation between the heterosexual pair. For example, Ben’s friend
Jason ( Jason Segel), who is being given a pretend blow job, has his
legs spread out like a pregnant woman...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2021
.... Jason Shumake and Jake Slane, “LOGOtv Declares ‘Witch, Please!’ with Premiere of Campy Sitcom Classic Bewitched ,” press release, 24 September 2012, press.logotv.com/press-releases/2014/05/27/logo-declares-witch-please-with-premiere-of-campy-sitcom-classic-bewitched . 25. “How I Wish I Could...
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