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Projecting Heterosexuality, or what do you mean by “it”?
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 161–186.
Published: 01 May 1996
... the relationship of the two central
men, Johnny Farrell and Ballin Mundson.' This undecidability, he
argues, allows the film "to disavow its gay meaning Such an under-
standing of "gay meaning" as something to be either disavowed or
avowed, said or silenced, in effect produces...
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Gilda: Epistemology as Striptease
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 6–27.
Published: 01 September 1983
... I Rita Hayworth, tossing her hair back with an almost violent
gesture, rises into the frame and answers, "Me?" (later adding, after a
reverse shot of johnny and as she pulls her dress strap over her shoulder,
"Sure, I'm decent In this case, the movement upward to fill the frame
with a content...
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Special Effects: Sexual and Social Difference in Wild at Heart
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 274–295.
Published: 01 September 1991
...
of Johnny Farragut, one of Marietta’s two boyfriends. In a film that
insists upon lining up its characters along a clear, brutally simple
dividing line between the “good,” wayward, but ultimately innocent,
and the “per~ertsthose whose violence is always sexual and whose...
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The Terror That Makes One Whatever One Is: Sterling Hayden's Emotional Testimonies
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 157–187.
Published: 01 September 2015
... was not as
a writer, however, but as the actor who played its troubled villain, a
gunfighter named Johnny Crale. The star of the film is Hayden, so
the drama acted out between hero and villain will again, unavoid-
ably, be allegorical. Hayden plays George Hansen, a Swedish sailor
who leaves the sea so he can...
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Continuum of the Human
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2007
... carried by the least likely of objects and
characters: witness Johnny Mnemonic (Keanu Reeves), the flattest
man on film (even the Terminator has a richer and more accessible
inner life than poor Johnny, who dumped his long-term memory
in order to free up wetware space in his head for data...
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“The Soap Opera Is a Hell of an Exciting Form”: Norman Lear's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and the 1970s Viewer
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 109–149.
Published: 01 September 2013
... (CBS, 1962 – 71), My
Three Sons (ABC, 1960 – 65; CBS, 1965 – 72), Family Affair (CBS,
1966 – 71), and The Johnny Cash Show (ABC, 1969 – 71), were can-
celled in unprecedented numbers. As cancellations piled up, the
Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Peterson spoke for many when he asked,
“What...
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Swimming Pools, Movie Stars: The Celebrity Body in the Post-War Marketplace
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 4–28.
Published: 01 May 1996
... Williams not been
tapped by the new industry. And yet, she was not successful merely
because she was a movie star, or a swimmer, or both; other celebrity
swimmers, including Johnny Weismuller and Buster Crabbe, endorsed
home swimming pools, but it was Esther Williams alone who seemed
to best "embody...
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“All Your Faves Are Problematic”: The Performative Spectatorship of Drunk Feminist Films
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 149–159.
Published: 01 September 2022
...). 16. Caryl Flinn, “The Deaths of Camp,” Camera Obscura 12, no. 2 (1995): 70. 17. Flinn, “Deaths of Camp,” 77. 18. Drunk Feminist Films (@DrunkFemFilms), Twitter, 15 October 2016, 9:32 p.m., https://twitter.com/DrunkFemFilms/status/787466243720810496 . 19. Johnny Walker...
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Innovating Women's Television in Local and National Networks: Ruth Lyons and Arlene Francis
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 31–69.
Published: 01 December 2002
....
In 1932, Ruth married her longtime boyfriend, Johnny
Lyons, but continued to work arduously at the radio station,
appearing on air and developing new programs. When Johnny
accepted a promotion and transfer to Cleveland, Ruth chose to
remain in Cincinnati—in part to remain close to her ailing par...
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On Film Studies and the Unconscious
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 39–67.
Published: 01 December 2012
... also kills off several of its characters in direct
violation of normal codes of screen death: the little girl, the hunky
male hero, and even the protagonist himself, little Johnny (Gregory
Moffett), are all strangled by Ro- Man before the world is “smashed
out of the universe” and the dream...
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Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and Serial Drama, 1946–1970
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 203–225.
Published: 01 January 1988
... a Johnny Carson-type TV talkshow host. This format produced
a veritable parade of guest stars, all playing themselves. UCLA: 132 episodes;
1961-1965.
julia. NBC; 1968-1971. In this sit-com singer Diahann Carroll portrays a nurse
and single mother whose husband was killed in Vietnam. UCLA: 2 episodes...
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The Red and the Black: Gender, Genre, and the Romance of (Anti)Communism in The Woman on Pier 13
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 117–147.
Published: 01 December 2014
...,
who had previously adapted Joseph Moncure March’s narrative
about an African American boxer for the now-canonical noir The
Set-Up (dir. Robert Wise, US, 1949), was paired with James Edward
Grant, who had scripted a number of minor noirs such as Johnny
Eager (dir. Mervyn LeRoy, US, 1941...
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A Taste for Shrinking: Movie Miniatures and the Unreal City
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 1–35.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... The miniature itself is visibly
miniature. The shot of Wood (Johnny Depp) and his assistants
(as they stand next to their little Hollywood set and swing their
saucers over it with fishing poles) turns them into giants. It offers
little exaggeration of the original film and its grade-B special
effects...
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“The Occidental Tourist”: Steve Fagin's Virtual Voyage for Armchair Travelers
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 46–63.
Published: 01 September 1990
... to escape the mournful and sonorous songs sung
by Flaubert, Roussel, and the narrator by virtue of their cheerful
banality, their lack of mystery, we watch movie stills of Crawford in
A Woman’s Face and Johnny Guitar, Dietrich in The Shanghai Express
and Morocco mutilated as they are re-membered...
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Devouring the Diva: Martyrdom as Feminist Backlash in The Rose
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 69–87.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., Ricky Nelson, B. B.
King, Bessie Smith. Others represent the difficult climb from
obscure beginnings to fame — Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Lana
Turner. Still others represent icons who have died young — most
notably John F. Kennedy (in the upper right-hand corner we see
a copy...
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Pandemic Stasis and Nonlinear Memory in Palestinian Short Films
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 165–186.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to the adjacent neighborhoods of Wadi Nisnas and Wadi Salib, or cities in nearby countries, including Beirut, Sidon, Tyre in Lebanon, and Alexandria in Egypt. The narrator, who draws on Johnny Mansour's extensive work on Haifa's history, adds a temporal layering to the scene. Filmed on Nakba Day in Haifa...
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Darkness and Light: Dusky Maidens and Velvet Dreams
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 185–207.
Published: 01 May 2005
... Festival (1996), and the Silver
Plaque at the Chicago Festival (1996). Urale’s follow-up short
film Still Life won best short at the Montreal World Film Festival
(2003). She has also directed music videos for her brother King
Kapisi and has acted in The Legend of Johnny Lingo (dir...
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Wind Up: The Machine-Event of Tape
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 113–135.
Published: 01 May 2007
... wounded.” And that is
the incalculable affect that this Tape measures.
Wind Up • 131
Notes
I would like to thank Patricia White, the reviewers at Camera Obscura,
and Johnny Golding for their feedback, as well as John Mowitt, Eric
Prenowitz...
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Woman-House: Architecture, Gender and Hybridity in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 126–150.
Published: 01 September 1996
... of the father, a son who is mentally
retarded, a lack of material resources, and the stifling atmosphere of
a small town in Iowa. While the film centers around a pretty predict-
able love story between Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) and the young
stranger who shows him strategies for rediscovering hope, Becky...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2010
... not
deliberately murder his first wife in the backstory of Rebecca (US,
1940)? He does in the novel!4 Does Johnnie not try to push Lina
out of the car and over the cliff at the end of Suspicion (US, 1941)?
Does Scottie not hurl Judy off the tower at the end of Vertigo (US,
1958)?5 To be sure, repressive...
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