...Huey Copeland Over the last two decades, American artist Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) has emerged as one of the most visually attuned photographers of her generation, using images as a means of documentation, invention, remembrance, and critique. Regardless of the sites and objects on which she trains her...

... think more clearly about sitcoms and their history. 1. “Andy Discovers America,” season 3, episode 23 of The Andy Griffith Show, writ. John Whedon, dir. Bob Sweeney, prod. 146  •  Camera Obscura Sheldon Leonard, Richard O. Linke, and Aaron Ruben, CBS, 4 March 1963. 2...

... to halt the unfortunate downward mobility of a lower-class insur- ance clerk, Leonard Bast (Samuel West), gets pregnant by him, and then defiantly decides to become a single mother. Released in February of 1992, Howards End became one of the most suc- cessful of the British heritage films...

... Kidman) in the last scene of The Hours: “Dear Leonard, to look life in the face. Always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last, to know it. To love it for what it is. And then, to put it away. Leon- ard, always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love...

... reflexive and autobiographical text. As a metacinematic work, the film has much to say about the means of its own production and, even fur- From The Fae Richards Photo Archive. Courtesy Zoe Leonard Camera Obscura 68, Volume 23, Number 2 doi 10.1215/02705346-2008-002  © 2008 by Camera Obscura...

... Networking Technologies. No. 83: pp. 151 – 75 Huey Copeland Photography, the Archive, and the Question of Feminist Form: A Conversation with Zoe Leonard. No. 83: pp. 177 – 89 Kristen Fallica More Than “Just Talk”: The Chelsea Picture Station in the 1970s. No. 82: pp. 125 – 33 Lucy...

... of Saigon in 1975 (6). 5. Leonard Maltin’s entry for Chrome and Hot Leather sums up the low cultural status of many of these films and the veterans they portray: “BOMB D:. . . . Lurid time-waster about some motorcycle thugs who are responsible for a young...

...., and Kyung Hyun Kim, eds. Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of Korean National Cinema. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2002. Jancovich, Mark, ed. Horror: The Film Reader. New York: Routledge, 2002. Leff, Leonard J., and Jerold L. Simmons. Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship...

... wings and an egret-feather headdress and singing an old Ethel Waters tune while the hippie children, passing jugs of wine and joints, go wild. Cut to Sylvester, backed by a band of scruffy, white, long- haired rock and rollers, singing Neil Young and Leonard Cohen tunes; wipe to Sylvester...

... links across time among three heroines, whose steady gazes into the camera imply an excavation of female subjectivity. Each scene suggests a specific chronotope of bour- geois family life familiar within Anglo-­American visual culture: technicolor Los Angeles postwar suburbs, Virginia and Leonard...

..., US, to be followed by Purity and The Girl o’ Dreams (dir. unknown, American Film Company, US, Her last lm, Heedless Moths (dir. Robert Z. Leonard, US, was derived from “By the ‘Queen of the Artists’ Studios,’ ” a series on art, modeling, and beauty that Munson authored for Hearst’s New...

... is there to facilitate this focus but her presence should not interfere with the more important narrative. Delacroix’s foregrounded visibility and Battle’s erasure are defining features of the show’s politics. As a result, I was a bit taken aback when I read that John Leonard, a reviewer...

... took social networking a step further in her next project, which focused on building an early social networking and matchmak- ing website for academics. With several students, including her research assistant Leonard Foner, Maes created a program that would recommend users to others based...

... draws the scene for the newspaper, his sketches look more like fashion prints than they do forensic docu- ments. Ironically, while within her films Garbo is the height of cutting-edge Deco fashion, in her off-screen life she had little patience for haute couture. As Leonard Hall writes...

.... With the exception of Alan Wolfson and Leonard Kuras (mentioned in note 62), I notice that there are few if any HUD (Housing and Urban Development) houses A Taste for Shrinking • 27 in shops catering to miniature lovers. The occasional dentist’s office or drug store...

...) to inauthenticity. The implicit linkage here was between integrity and Americanization. In “The Passing of Pola,” Leonard Hall wrote that “Pola Negri’s failure was a failure of the mind and spirit.” He continued: Stars are because film fans find in each one things to love and cherish. In Jack Gilbert...

... stanzas of “Paper-Thin Hotel,” sung by Leonard Cohen: The walls of this hotel are paper-thin Last night I heard you making love to him 89 The struggle mouth to mouth and limb to limb The grunt of unity when he came...

... University Press). Camera Obscura 2002 Zoe Leonard, The Fae Richards Photo Archive, 1993–96. Created for Cheryl Dunye’s film The Watermelon Woman (1996). From a series of seventy-eight black and white photographs and notebook of seven pages of typed text on typewriter paper. The accompanying...

... that the Soviet soldier appealed to her mother, demonstrate an explicit concern in part 2 of the film with sexual relationships less violent than rape. Indeed, the interview with Eckert follows the interview with the former Soviet soldier Leonard...

... points to the revolutionary potential of film. Notes I am grateful to Paula Rabinowitz, John Mowitt, Karen Steigman, Julia Musha, and Danielle Bouchard for their comments on earlier versions of this essay. I am also grateful for a Harold Leonard Memorial Fellowship in Film Study, which...