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When Is A Lesbian Not a Lesbian?: The Lesbian Continuum and the Mainstream Femme Film
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 144–180.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Christine Holmlund Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Entre Notis (Diane Kurys, 1983)
men Is A Lesbian Not a Lesbian?: The Lesbian
Continuum and the Mainstream Femme Film
Christine Holmlund
In the early to mid 1980s, a hybrid subgenre of the woman’s film...
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The UCLA Gay and Lesbian Media Conference
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 120–131.
Published: 01 September 1983
...Larry Horne; John Ramirez © 1983 by Camera Obscura 1983
Conference Report
The UCLA Gay and Lesbian Media Conference
Larry Horne andJohn Ramirez
The UCLA Gay and Lesbian Media Conference took place over three days
in]anuary, 1983. It was preceded...
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“Wish We Didn't Have to Meet Secretly?”: Negotiating Contemporary Space in the Lesbian-Bar Documentary
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Kelly Hankin Camera Obscura 2001 Kelly Hankin received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester, where she is currently a visiting professor of film studies. Her book The Girls in the Back Room: The Lesbian Bar in Film, Television, and Video is forthcoming from...
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Holiness Codes and Holy Homosexuals: Interpreting Gay and Lesbian Christian Subculture
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 151–193.
Published: 01 December 2001
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Holiness Codes and Holy
Homosexuals: Interpreting Gay
and Lesbian Christian Subculture...
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In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Popular Culture
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Ann Cvetkovich Camera Obscura 2002 Ann Cvetkovich is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public...
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Unnatural Affinities: Me and Judy at the Lesbian Bar
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 127–133.
Published: 01 September 2007
... and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (2003), and the coeditor of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (2003). Unnatural Affinities:
Me and Judy at the Lesbian Bar
Ann Pellegrini
For my eighteenth birthday, my high school boyfriend gave me
two Judy Garland albums: Alone and Miss Show...
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Hairgate! TV's Coiffure Controversies and Lesbian Locks
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 166–172.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Controversies
and Lesbian Locks
Julie Levin Russo
Hillary Rodham Clinton is well acquainted with the travails of
divadom. In her 2001 commencement address at Yale University,
she told the graduating seniors, “The most important thing that
I have to say today is that hair matters. . . . Pay...
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The Documentaries of Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Creativity, Kinship, and Erotic Pleasure in the Historical Margins
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 105–117.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Ronald Gregg Abstract Lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer turned from experimental filmmaking to feature-length documentaries in the early 1990s. These late documentaries illustrate her distinct perspective on queer history and affect, which was influenced by 1970s lesbian feminism and queer...
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“She Could Hardly Invent Them!” From Epistemological Uncertainty to Discursive Production: Lesbianism in The Children's Hour
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 86–105.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Julia Erhart Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 The Children's Hour (William Wyler, 1961)
"She Could Hardly Invent Them!"
From Epistemological Uncertainty to
Discursive Production: Lesbianism in
The Children's Hour
Julia Erhart...
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Commodity Lesbianism
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 181–201.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Danae Clark Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Commodity Lesbianism
Danae Clark
A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial
thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows...
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Petting the Rabbit: The Favourite (2018), Anti-heritage, and the Search for Lesbians in the Past
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 33–59.
Published: 01 December 2024
... focuses on the queen's fictional rabbits. Gradually, these animals overwhelm the film's narrative, turning the cinematic image into an undulating, grey morass. This essay meditates on why The Favourite endlessly reproduces the rabbits’ image and expands on how searching for lesbians in the past on film...
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Barbara Hammer and Queer|Art: Granting for the Future
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 137–139.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Vanessa Haroutunian Abstract This essay describes how the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant came into fruition, created by the pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer and administered through the New York City nonprofit organization Queer|Art. In 2017, Hammer...
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The Face Is a Politics: A Close-Up View of Julie Dash's Illusions
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 149–183.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and narrative progressions. Second, I perform a lesbian reading of Illusions based on palpable frissons of attraction and mutual fascination linking the two female protagonists and also on the film's deliberately rough aesthetics, situating Dash's film within a tradition Patricia White and others, following...
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Queer-ing Texture: Tactility, Spatiality, and Kinesthetic Empathy in She Monkeys
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 121–154.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Katharina Lindner This article is situated within a critical context in which phenomenological approaches to film intersect with debates around queer cinema, and lesbian film in particular. With a specific focus on Apflickorna ( She Monkeys , dir. Lisa Aschan, Sweden, 2011), it proposes ways...
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Histories of The Watermelon Woman : Reflexivity between Race and Gender
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of these discussions and explore their interrelations, by looking at the film through a history and analysis of cinematic reflexivity. As a metacinematic work both by and about an African American lesbian director, the film has much to say about the means of its own production and, even further, about the way...
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The Ins and Outs of Female Sensibility : A 1973 Video by Lynda Benglis
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 81–109.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Susan Richmond A video produced by Lynda Benglis in 1973, Female Sensibility features the artist in a lesbian liaison with her friend and colleague, Marilyn Lenkowsky. This essay suggests that aspects of the video's content indicate that the artist intended this liaison to be an ironic enactment...
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Making Electricity: Narrating Gender, Sexuality, and the Neoliberal Transition in Billy Elliot
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., by working-class women, feminists, and lesbian and gay activists. Eschewing recognition of such complexities, the narrative drive of the film relies on a temporal and spatial transition that places familial reconciliation in a postconflictual present and in a location far removed from the communal...
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Performing Essentialism: Reassessing Barbara Hammer's Films of the 1970s
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Greg Youmans Since 2005, a number of video artists have mined the essentialist iconography and practices associated with 1970s lesbian feminism, such as central-core imagery, rural separatism, and Goddess rites. These artists have produced work that is pointedly queer in sensibility and that brings...
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Valencia: The Movie/s : A New Collectivity
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 165–175.
Published: 01 December 2016
... audiences with a contemporary vision of queer feminism that embraces a multitude of gender expressions. This approach can be understood in the context of the cultural changes to lesbian and queer communities over the past twenty years, shaped by the growing visibility and inclusion of transgender politics...
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The Kids Are All Right , the Pursuits of Happiness, and the Spaces Between
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 111–135.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Jodi Brooks The Kids Are All Right (US, 2010) is Lisa Cholodenko's most commercial film to date and has been the most divisive in its reception. Pitched as a film of and for the times, the film has been celebrated for its portrayal of a lesbian family unit and taken to task for its homonormativity...
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