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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 81–109.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Therese Davis The article looks at the contributions of writer and director Darlene Johnson to an emerging Australian Indigenous cinema. It discusses the ways in which Johnson draws on her experience as a young, urban Indigenous woman and her knowledge of Aboriginal culture to explore...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2012
...J. E. Smyth Although The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (dir. Nunnally Johnson, US, 1956) ostensibly focuses on Tom Rath (Gregory Peck), the production of the screenplay and shooting largely revolved around actress Jennifer Jones's characterization of Betsy Rath, a stay-at-home wife and mother...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 165–173.
Published: 01 May 2016
...-motion animated films that explicitly consider questions of disability, gender, and political action. This article considers in particular the short films The Toll Collector (US, 2003), made by Lift founder Rachel Johnson, and Henrietta Bulkowski , currently in production at Lift. It argues that both...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 42–75.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Eithne Johnson Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 Theresa Saldana in Confessions of Crime.
Lifetime’s Feminine Psychographic Space and
the “Mystery Loves Company” Series
Eitbne Johnson
Since its debut in 1984, Lifetime Television has been carving a niche...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2016
... but crucial segment of the film, a goofy, mildly
rotund ventriloquist named Kevin Johnson introduces Conti to
bifurcation as a term that, for him, signals a ventriloquial epistemol-
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ogy (fig. 5). Over footage of Johnson performing at the ventrilo-
quist’s convention...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... is a product of dis-
course. Johnson suggests that a degree of mythologizing surrounds
both the narrative in which the series’ audience is positioned and
the meanings that it is made to bear. Popular lore on websites and
journalistic publications tends to obscure the “complex motiva-
tions, social...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 103–128.
Published: 01 May 1997
... president, Bob Garvin (Don-
ald Sutherland) who instead brings someone else in from “outside.”
Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore), Sanders’ former lover, is given the
position, and it is clear that this is an unpopular choice with the
company, especially because of Garvin’s...
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 3–27.
Published: 01 September 1985
... 17th century. See Anthony Blunt,
The Drawings of Poussin (New Haven & London: Yale University Press,
1979), p. 13.
4. See Timothy Corrigan, New German Cinema: The Displacedlmage (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1983), p. 46; and Catherine Johnson...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 95–121.
Published: 01 May 2000
...-selling novel Quality by Cid Ricketts
Sumner,5 Pinky is set in the South, where Patricia “Pinky” Johnson
(Jeanne Crain) has returned home from nursing school “up yon-
der,” in the North. She returns to the small shack where her grand-
mother, Dicey Johnson...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of annihilation, and then discovered a way to break out of
their prescribed roles. Their process recalls Barbara Johnson’s elu-
cidation of the trust involved in “using people”: “Perhaps a synonym
for ‘using people’ would be, paradoxically, ‘trusting people,’ creat-
ing a space of play and risk that does...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 37–61.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., who began with a connection to and interest in Lyndon Johnson and his staffer Dick Goodwin (husband of historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and author of John- 42 Camera Obscura son s 1965 speech on the Voting Rights Act). As Webb explains, I decided here was the story I wanted to tell. I started reading...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 6–11.
Published: 01 May 1994
... only just begun. Initial versions of many of the essays published
here (Byars and Meehan, Feuer, Johnson, Streeter and Wahl, White,
and Wilson) were originally presented on Lifetime panels at Console-
ing Passions: Feminism, Television, and Video Conferences in 1993
8 and 1994. Since...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 172–177.
Published: 01 May 2008
... Room; her colonial hauteur as Karen Blixen
in Out of Africa (dir. Sydney Pollock, US, 1985); her satiric, desperado
glamour as Madeline Ashton in Death Becomes Her; her shy arousal
as Francesca Johnson in Bridges of Madison County; or her shock as
the bereft mother Lindy Chamberlain in A Cry...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 52–76.
Published: 01 September 1996
... the world) was now
not unlike being Jack Johnson, Malcolm X and
Frank Costello all in one.
Norman Mailer
Disrupting the Athletic Discourse.
Every talent must unfold...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 138.
Published: 01 May 1992
... Scorsese.
Rajani Sudan teaches at Middlebury College. She has published articles on
Johnson and De Quincey, and is currently working on her book manuscript,
“Fair Exotics: Xenophobia, Representation, and Gender in English Literature”
(1775-1 845). ...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 184–185.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... 149 – 83
Nick Davis
The Face Is a Politics: A Close-Up View of Julie Dash’s Illusions. No. 86:
pp. 149 – 83
Therese Davis
Between Worlds: Indigenous Identity and Difference in the Films of
Darlene Johnson. No. 85: pp. 81 – 109
Therese Davis and Belinda Smaill...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 128–135.
Published: 01 May 1981
.... O.B. brand tampons, produced by Johnson &Johnson,
announce on their “informative instruction leaflet” that O.B. is
superior to other tampons because they have been “designed” by a
“woman gynecologist.” The meaning and importance of this state-
ment can now be understood...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 275–276.
Published: 01 May 1997
... of a larger project on ethics and
subjectivity in contemporary culture.
Rajani Sudan teaches English and cultural studies at the University of Texas at
Arlington. She has published on a wide variety of topics ranging from Samuel
Johnson, Thomas De Quincey, and Mary...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 262–263.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of Seeing Through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism
(Duke, 1995).
Eithne Johnson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Radio-Television-
Film, University of Texas, Austin. She teaches film courses at Emerson College
while working on her dissertation, which...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2024
...: A Retrospective,” which was published in 1989 by Jeff Johnson, Theresa L. Roberts, Verplank, Smith, Irby, Marian Beard, and Kevin Mackey. They write, “An important design goal was to make the ‘computer’ as invisible to users as possible. . . . Users could focus on their work, oblivious to concepts like software...
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