...Paula Gladstone © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 Coney Island, followed by Leopard Lady Paula Gladstone I simply have a love affair with Coney Island. I lived there most of my life. My parents still live there. My grandparents died there. I’ve walked every street, inspected...

...Alexander Doty Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 The Sissy Boy, The Fat Ladies, and The Dykes: Queerness and/as Gender in Pee-wee’s World Alexander Doty In all the things I’ve read or heard about Pee-wee Herman, his shows, and his films, only two...

...Ella Shohat “Lasers for Ladies”: Endo Discourse and the Inscriptions of Science Ella Shohat Feminist theory has produced an impressive corpus of texts on the imaging of the female body in the arts, photography, cinema, and the media.’ This discussion of the visual has...

... the film sound theorist Michel Chion calls the acousmêtre , or the acousmatic voice. By bringing together Chion, Lacan, and feminist film theory, the article analyzes the acousmatization of the male voice in Gabbeh (dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran/France, 1996) and Banoo-ye ordibehesht ( The May Lady , dir...

...Karen Beckman Verwehte Spuren (The Footprints Blown Away, Veit Harlan, 1938). Violent Vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and the Disappearing Woman Karen Beckman Charles Bertram, Queen Victoria's favorite magician, performed the Vanishing Lady Trick on the British stage...

...Ian Balfour The Playhouse of the Signifier: Reading Pee-wee Herman Ian Balfour I. The Mail-Lady I want to begin with a phrase from Pee-wee’s Playhouse, the epithet for the character named Reba, who is called the “mail-lady,” because her job is to deliver the mail. At first...

... Richard Bellamy. The “upstairs” contin- gent consisted of Bellamy, a commoner who married above him, Lady Marjorie, his wife and economic support, and their children, James, a weak and irrespmsible ne’er-do-well, and Elizabeth, who flirted with socialism, suffragism, and always ended up asking her...

... through voice, an important detail given the game’s cultivation of voices and sound as mediums of truth. Daisy is the most vital other in this narrative and a foil for Booker and Comstock, as well as for Elizabeth and the Prophet’s wife, Lady Comstock. Although Dai- sy’s characterization...

... yeux verts, no. 312- 313 (June 1980), which she wrote and edited. Paula Gladstone, oripally from New York City, now lives in Ber- keley, Cahfornia. Primady a filmmaker, she also is a poet and painter. Her present body of work includes her film-in-progress, kopard Lady; a filmscript which she...

... With what? With a little touch of ladies fir~t.~ The summer of 1989 marked the tenth anniversary of rap music’s explosive debut in the recording industry. In honor of its unexpected longevity, Nelson George, a pro-Hip Hop music critic and Village Voice columnist...

... and power on The Fifty-Fifty Club per- sisted unabated for many years, earning her frequent mention in national publications. Cosmopolitan magazine called her “A Mil- lion Dollar Dynamo,”11 while Ladies’ Home Journal featured her as “the Midwest’s most influential housewife.”12 By the early 1960s...

...” woman behind the por- trait. In classic film noir fashion, the enigma that sets the protago- nist on his quest is supplanted by another story.11 In this case, the narrator’s initial quest for the “velvet lady” becomes a search for the portrait’s creator, Charlie McPhee. The narrator’s...

... metaphors. In the poem reprinted here, the question of voice (who speaks?) is very interesting. CONEY ISLAND mmmmmmmmmmmmm sweet tar lady come on ovcr here come on ovcr 116 lemme make your buns come alive cold drinks and hot dogs here it tuck-us a long time...

... girl from Philadelphia. . . . Gracie and I got along beautifully because we liked the same pills. And I was the only person she knew who could get her the pills she wanted. And that’s a wonderful feeling, ladies and gentlemen, to be needed, to be helpful At other moments in her act, Kiki might...

... of Lady Purple” (1974) and “The Youngest Doll” (1976 in Spanish, 1991 in English) turn the tables on the conventional association of dolls with docile femininity. While consumption and destruction are the elements of the film most often remarked by film reviewers, in the final por- tion of my...

...Scott Bukatman The Delicate Delinquent (Don McGuire, 1957) Paralysis in Motion: Lewis’s Life as a Man Scott Bu katman Jerry Lewis: the disorderly orderly, the delicate delinquent, the ladies man, the nutty professor. Jerry Lewis: oxymoron, idiot savant. In Cracking Up...

... adolescent girl who practiced piano and obeyed her mother. Cosmopolitan’s “An Actress from the ‘Movies’” declared her to be an “unsophisticated believer in fairies” and the “pet of playgoers all over the country who don’t even know her name.”34 In 1915, Ladies’ Home Journal’s “The Most Popular Girl...

... presents us with a Warhol who is also insult­ ingly unable to differentiate between black drag queens. Helen/ Harry Morales, for instance, is one of the ten African American queens depicted in Warhol’s series of screenprinted portraits, Ladies and Gentlemen (1975), a series that, as Taro Nettleton...

... that when copying Bara’s slicked hair and slithering movements, girl fans expressed sexual agency and power, characteristics celebrated in the vamp’s on-­screen persona but frowned on when performed by well-­bred young ladies in everyday life. Vital information about the seminal relation...

... autobiography in her 1981 one- 30  •  Camera Obscura woman show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, in which Horne brought the performance conventions of the cabaret to the Broad- way stage and vividly sounded the aloof impersona she cultivated in her early career.43 David Román suggests...