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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 125–151.
Published: 01 September 2003
... examines death and beauty in twentieth-century art, literature, and film. “Don’t you feel eyes moving over your body? Don’t your
eyes seek out the things they wantHannibal Lecter
(Anthony Hopkins) in The Silence of the Lambs
(dir. Jonathan Demme, US, 1991)
The Practice and Politics
of “Freeing...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 36–53.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Judith Halberstam Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991).
0 1991 Orion Pictures Corporation
Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan
Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs
Judith Halberstam
The monster, as we know it, died in 1963 when Hannah Arendt
published her “Report...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 4–35.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Elizabeth Young Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
The Silence of the Lambs and the Flaying of
Feminist Theory
Elizabeth Young
I. The Sheepish Spectator
Let me begin with a curious fact about my relation to Jonathan
Demme’s film The Silence ofthe Lambs: Ted Levine...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 34–51.
Published: 01 September 1996
... tion," Montgomery wrote about Home Avenue (1989, 17 min Age
12: Love with a Little L (1990, 23 min and I, a Lamb (1991, 19
min "They are very personal and were really made in a kind of
punk underground aesthetic for a limited audience." Her modesty is
misplaced, however...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 179–187.
Published: 01 September 1991
... to Questionnaire on “The Female Spectator.” No. 20-21; pp.
165-168.
182 Halberstam, Judith
Skin-Flick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the
Lambs. No. 27; pp. 36-53.
Hansen, Miriam
Adventures of Goldilocks: Spectatorship, Consumerism...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 1990
... suggests how the film segment could have been used to
provoke a discussion about acquisitive and status-conscious women:
Alice Adams’s father is on sick leave from his job as a clerk at Lamb’s. He 41
is worrying about his lack of money, feeling that Alice cannot have the
advantages...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 124–159.
Published: 01 September 1999
... Museum, to the imaginative African jungles of
Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan, to the lurid landscape of Tennessee
Williams's short fiction and drama, and to a wide range of films, as
126 various as Soylent Green, The Hills Have Eyes, Eating Raoul, and
The Silence of the Lambs:" Recently...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 151–163.
Published: 01 September 2021
... In extreme experiments, in which she would set smaller box assemblages on fire, she often performed symbolic destructions of gendered cultural tracts, as in Music Box Music , in which she incinerated the preprogrammed cylinder for the song “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Second, as Schneemann moved from miniature...
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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 134–147.
Published: 01 September 1991
... discover
that they have taken each other as ego-ideals, one emulating the others
independent, arty, lace-up boots, the other mimicking the first’s fash-
ionable Persian lamb jacket. Here we learn that the “perfect” image
is always elsewhere. The object of my desire is essentially an object...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 66–87.
Published: 01 May 1981
..., there exist differential semantic fea-
tures that permit one to distinguish between the lexemes mutton and
lamb, for example.
Recognizing that this imminent “collapse” of the linguistic sign
would largely undermine a cinesemiology, Metz avoids, or at least
dxplaces...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 202–223.
Published: 01 September 1991
...-swapping with nightmarish results:
Letty’s husband gets indigestion from Grace’s home-cooked lamb
chops while Letty’s wildness exhausts her new mate. Over Harold’s
tired objections, Letty invites all of her friends from the Ardmore
(including Uncle Claude’s...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 106–128.
Published: 01 May 1995
... pose with a lamb over his shoulder to
"kitsch" pictures of Jesus Christ (247).
56. Riefenstahl attempts the female opposition to Andre Bazin's theory of
erotic film, "one that is capable of provoking the audience to desire the
heroine sexually...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 92–122.
Published: 01 January 1996
... are clubbed, lambs torn from mothers Men
risk death hunting leopards and crocodiles for bags and shoes. Bit by bit
Venus asserts herself With the final words, the grandmother looks
ironically at the camera, in an overt acknowledgment of its presence.
KS: She does so because...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 148–175.
Published: 01 May 1990
... in Mass Communication 5.2 (1988) :
85-107; Patricia Frazier Lamb and Diane L. Veith, “Romantic Myth,
Transcendence, and Star Trek Zines,” Erotic Universe: Sexuality and
Fantastic Literature, ed. Donald Palumbo (New York: Greenwood, 198 6)
235-56; Constance Penley, “Feminism...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 75–102.
Published: 01 May 1997
..., no matter how many
alien autopsies we watch performed.
NOTES
My thanks to Stephen Markley, Gwen Bergner, Molly Rothenberg, Rajani
Sudan, Thomas DiPiero, John Lamb, Ronald Schleifer, and Rhonda Baker for
putting their cynicism on hold long enough to discuss paranoia...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 159–195.
Published: 01 December 2001
... in Hollywood:
I wonder if other directors will understand Pola as Lubitsch does or
whether they will expect fire to always be cool and a tiger cat as tame as
one of the curly ingenue lambs. Will Pola escape the standardization
process? Or will she have to submit to being a perfect lady, always kind...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 73–109.
Published: 01 December 2009
...-lamb, and the ship Tomorrow that beckons
to the hereafter. When Kee dramatically reveals her pregnancy to
Theo in the barn, he exclaims, “Jesus Christ!” and, when asked who
the father is, Kee jokes that she is a virgin. As Tavener’s score swells
and Tomorrow approaches to “complete...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 31–68.
Published: 01 January 1996
... through the course of the film.
A further, more consciously political explanation for the phenomenon
of the non-threatening gay best friend may be the desire to produce
"positive" gay representations, especially amidst the controversy about
films such as Basic Instinct and Silence of the Lambs (1991...
