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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 151–179.
Published: 01 May 2004
...James Kim Jet Li in Romeo Must Die (dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak, US, 2000)
The Legend of the White-and-Yellow
Black Man: Global Containment
and Triangulated Racial Desire
in Romeo Must Die
James Kim
How may I touch you across this chasm of flown things?
—Li-Young Lee, The Winged Seed...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 176–192.
Published: 01 May 1979
... Excerpts from an Interview with
The Legend of Maya Deren Project
The Camera Obscura Collective
The Legend of Maya Deren, a three-volume documentary biography of
the late filmmaker, writer and ethnologist, is being published as a
special series of Film...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 129–160.
Published: 01 May 1997
... of
popular consumption, but specifically the actual, historical man of
learning and public figure-not, per se, the mad scientist of fiction,
although the two overlap considerably. I will look at the scientist’s
production of an android, a legend that is attributed to certain histor-
ical men...
Journal Article
“How much did you pay for this place?” Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 69–91.
Published: 01 January 1996
... of researching and ultimately debunking urban legends for a
collaborative thesis. The film begins with Helen interviewing a white
teenager about Candyman, a bogeyman who can be invoked by the
ritual of saying his name five times in front of a mirror. In the teenager's
narrative...
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in Agnès Varda and Le Collectif 50/50 en 2020: Power and Protest at the Cannes Film Festival
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 1. Agnès Varda presents speech with Cate Blanchett at the 12 May 2018 Cannes Film Festival demonstration. She stands beside director Céline Sciamma and with members of the French 50/50 en 2020 collective. Clarence Tsui, “French Film Legend Agnès Varda on Faces Places , Her Feminist Vision
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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 116–118.
Published: 01 September 1980
...-17s.
Interview with Babette Mangolte. Vol. I, no. 3-4;pp. 198-210.
Interview with The Legend of Maya Deren Project. Vol. I, no. 3-4;pp. 177-191.
Review: mlf. Vol. I, no. 3-4;pp. 233-237,
Cine-Femmes International (Rosine Grange and Vivian Ostrovsky...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 137–145.
Published: 01 September 1977
... forgotten. We
realized that Maya Deren's work could easily become obscured and lost
once again. Our goal was to explore the sometimes spectacular legend to
discoverthe struggles and accomplishments behind it. The Legendis part-
ly the complex image of Deren projected in her films and on public oc...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2013
... published volumes of The Legend of Maya Deren already
provide an embarrassment of biographical riches to consider.3
Third, her life, films, and theoretical tracts have previously been
subjected to almost microscopic analysis. For example, Lauren
Rabinovitz positions Deren as a political force...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 148–175.
Published: 01 May 1990
... / throughout the land” and ending
with the proclamation that “the legends will live on eternally.”
How can we make sense of this particular song? Obviously, one
reading, already suggested by my summary above, would treat “Born
Again Trek” as a representative artifact drawn...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 159–166.
Published: 01 January 1990
... and the China of myths and legends in a fascinating manner.
It is the myth of Golden Lotus, a prostitute whose fate is depicted as
the result of patriarchal oppression, which motivates this narrative.
Reborn into the China of the Cultural Revolution, Golden Lotus’s life
becomes a web of past life...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): iii–np.
Published: 01 May 2004
...
Beyond the Gaze: Visual Fascination and the Feminine
Image in Silent Hitchcock • 77
Jessica Brent
Envisioning the (W)hole World “Behind Things”:
Denying Otherness in American Beauty • 113
Vincent Hausmann
The Legend of the White-and-Yellow Black Man:
Global Containment and Triangulated...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 67–107.
Published: 01 May 2009
... customers and mer-
chants. Central to the marketing strategy would be the creation
of a “legend” that specified the narrative terms by which Aunt
Jemima pancakes would trade both on projected nostalgia for the
Old South and a desire for cohesive national identity occlusive of
sectional...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 154–157.
Published: 01 September 2007
...-destructive. Legend has it that during Hole’s
“Live through This” tour later that year, a makeup-smeared Love
tumbled barefoot out of a limo and into a Houston drugstore one
night, not four blocks from my apartment. She tried to pay for a
pack of gum with an American Express credit card. Confusing her...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 176–179.
Published: 01 December 1986
... Press. Sydney, Australia, 1985.
The Legend of Maya Deren: A Documentary Biography and Collected Works
edited by Veve A. Clark, Millicent Hodson, Catrina Neiman and Francine
Bailey Price. Anthology Film Archives. New York, 1985. $22.50.
The Light on Her Face by Joseph Walker, ASC, and Juanita...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 112–119.
Published: 01 December 1980
... is fascinated with these people, specifically as
part of a fantasy of childhood and return.
The Ballet Shoes
At several points in the film the filmmaker reads her own poems.
The verbal image’ry is, in a way, very child-like-it is all taken from the
rides and legends of Coney Island...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 123–127.
Published: 01 December 2021
... (US, 2000), and Lover/Other (US, 2006). They had a great working relationship that kept her coming back to the Studio. By the time I arrived in 2001, Barbara Hammer was kind of a legend, holding the honor of most demanding and most generous, engaging artist. Barbara and I first met in 2005, when...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 37–61.
Published: 01 December 2006
...-Armed Swords-
man (Dubei dao, Hong Kong, 1967) into The Blade (Dao, dir. Tsui
Hark, Hong Kong, 1995). The special effects – filled Zu: Warriors
from the Magic Mountain (Xin shu shan jian xia, dir. Tsui Hark, Hong
Kong, 1983) and The Legend of Zu (Shu shan zheng zhuan, dir. Tsui
Hark, Hong...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 104–125.
Published: 01 September 1996
... of the heroes of the comic-book but also
from the world of comic-book production which is no less intriguing
and violent than the cartoon story itself. Comparable to his own
comic creations, Wong Yuk Long is a legend in his own way, a legend
constructed and overseen by him directly...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 31–69.
Published: 01 December 2002
... the next few years writing her autobiography, Remem-
ber with Me. She died a Cincinnati legend in November 1988.
Lyons’s influence on television history did not end with her retire-
ment in 1967, however. In the same year, Phil Donahue adapted
Lyons’s extemporaneous style and premiered a revamped form...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 81–109.
Published: 01 May 2014
... white
friends mimic the water ballet routines of Koorine’s idol Esther
Williams in Million Dollar Mermaid (dir. Mervyn LeRoy, US, 1952), a
popular biopic of Australian swimming legend Annette Kellerman.
Koorine’s desire to be “just like Esther Williams,” as she says, is an
example...
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