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in Female Surrogate Labor and White Corporeal Debt in Singin’ in the Rain
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2. Debbie Reynolds performs an approximation of a Hawaiian hula dance as O'Connor and Kelly (from left to right) look on, part of the eruption of a multiracial genealogy of jazz dance in the “Good Morning” number. Singin’ in the Rain (dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, US, 1952)
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Figure 2. Debbie Reynolds performs an approximation of a Hawaiian hula dance as O'Connor and Kelly (from left to right) look on, part of the eruption of a multiracial genealogy of jazz dance in the “Good Morning” number. Singin’ in the Rain (dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, US, 1952) ...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 8–41.
Published: 01 May 1990
... at chain stores, black consumers could refuse to patronize
white-owned establishments that failed to hire blacks or overcharged 11
black customers. Purchasing blues and jazz recordings by black artists
helped blacks develop and promote a culturally reaffirming African-
American sound. Rather...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 31–71.
Published: 01 May 2002
... a more perfect synchronization. The characters’ bodies are
by turns monumentalized and fragmented by the camera until
they finally become the distorted shadows that dance across the
screen in the film’s most visually stunning and self-reflexive
moments. Once again, black bodies meld into the apparatus...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 73–101.
Published: 01 September 2007
...
in the US racist imaginary. See Black Marxism: The Making of the
Black Radical Tradition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2000).
13. See Rose, Jazz Cleopatra, 109; Anthea Kraut, “Between
Primitivism and Diaspora: The Dance Performances of
Josephine Baker...
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 112–119.
Published: 01 December 1980
...Janet Bergstrom 7he Dancing Soul of the Walking People
The Dancing Soul Ofthe Walking People
(Paula Gladstone)
Janet Bergstrorn
This is both an abstract film, out of the minimal, hard-edge tradition,
and figurative, a kind of documentary on Coney Island. It would...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2015
... female performer and, in some cases, a pop music sound track; these films include COSMIC RAY (1961), VIVIAN (1964), EASTER MORNING RAGA (1966), and THE WHITE ROSE (1967). This essay examines a work by Conner that combines all of these elements, 1966's BREAKAWAY, an experimental dance film he made...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 35–79.
Published: 01 December 2008
... diction is in fact a
collage of South American beat and jazz, hints of Martha Graham
(already a borrowing of neo-Greco classicism as well as of African
and Asian choreographic rhetoric), Caribbean and Latin Ameri-
can dancing, as well as the Charleston and the cakewalk, the latter
two being...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the importance of jazz for Pollock's innovations in painting. It is jazz's method of improvisation that influenced Pollock's abstract expressionism—as it was Pollock's “genius” to be able to realize “an essentially alien aesthetic methodology” into a new mode of painting. 11 The problem that precipitated...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2014
... to be directed to the side of the
dance floor as the band strikes up an allegro arrangement of the
jazz classic “Summertime,” enlivened by the pounding drumbeat
of timbales. To this accompaniment a lone performer, the afore-
mentioned Margo, makes her way onto the floor and proceeds to
mesmerize...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to modernity. Whereas
Kracauer finds that the chorus lines of “sexless bodies in bathing
suits” epitomize the mass ornament,38 Dinerstein notes the abil-
ity of big-band jazz of the 1920s and 1930s, and the dancing that
went with it, to “swing the machine,” an innovative response...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 224–249.
Published: 01 September 1991
...
is most constitutive of the film musical-music.
One index of this resistance is the emphasis which the critics cited
above place on dance as against singing. Giles, for example, proposes
an analogy between conversion hysteria and musical comedies,
whereby ‘(the body seems...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 1–39.
Published: 01 December 2009
... the taboo act of interracial
sex was transferred, in The Little Colonel, to the more manageable
desire to watch Shirley and Bojangles dance. For it was through
dance that American audiences’ desire to see black and white
bodies touching on screen was first satisfied. It is hardly a figment...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 11–45.
Published: 01 May 2008
... • Camera Obscura
politicization. Café Society represented a dramaturgical exchange
between two different cabaret-performance traditions, offering a
“remarkable synthesis of the radical political cabarets of Berlin
and Paris with the African American jazz clubs and revues of Har-
lem.”39...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., Jinsong Kim’s book Seoul-eh dance
hall-ul huhara (Permit Dance Halls in Seoul) introduced such “micro-
history” to contemporary discourses about Korean colonial moder-
nity. As its subtitle, The Formation of Korean Modernity, suggests, the
book traces unknown cultural histories of Seoul...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 69–98.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Garland, tells the story of two girls’ efforts to save the
languishing town orchestra. The failure of the Durbin/Garland
duet at the end of the lm should be obvious to anyone watching
without the bene t of hindsight. “Americana,” a jazz- opera melody
accompanied by Garland’s character’s poolroom...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 129–159.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Is Crazy, dir. Yash
Chopra, India, 1997) and Devdas. Dil to pagal hai’s vigorous dance-
off, set to instrumental music, pits two professional dancers against
each other — the Westernized, jazz/modern-dancing, brazen Nisha
(Karisma Kapoor) and the kathak-trained, demure Pooja (Dixit).
Nisha’s...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 155–168.
Published: 01 May 1988
...
when Miss Yvonne and Tito are dancing at a playhouse party, Pee-
wee sidles up to the couple and asks to be allowed to cut in. Miss
Yvonne graciously nods her approval, only to find that Pee-wee turns
to Tito and starts dancing with him. No more than two or three seconds
pass before Pee-wee...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
Published: 01 December 2013
... highlight Vallois’s indebtedness to traditional and
twentieth-century dance à la Hollywood, jazz, and classical ballet.
It is the second mode of choreography on which I concentrate
because it tears at the skin and bodily locus that Hocquenghem
rightly marks as an overdeterminedly repressed site...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 113–135.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Lynn Turner Camera Obscura 2007 Lynn Turner is a lecturer in visual culture at Goldsmiths College at the University of London. She is currently completing a monograph titled “Translations: Sex, Dancing, and the Queer Feminine” and editing a collection called “Choreographesis: Dance...
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