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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... The accompanying notes in this fictional
archive identify this photograph as “Martha and Fae at home.
(mid-1930s Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings:
Documentary and Popular Culture
Ann Cvetkovich
Every lesbian is worthy of inclusion in history. If you...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2001
...
Secretly Negotiating
Contemporary Space in the
Lesbian-Bar Documentary
Kelly Hankin
In the introductory essay of “Lesbians and Film,” a special section
of Jump Cut published in 1981, editors Edith Becker, Michelle...
Journal Article
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...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 41–69.
Published: 01 September 2019
... in the first place. In focusing on Lesbian Factory (dir. Susan Chen, 2010), a documentary by the Taiwan International Workers’ Association on the collaborative effort of Taiwanese activists and queer Filipina migrant workers to push for better migrant labor rights, this article tracks how the documentary...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 71–97.
Published: 01 December 2003
... sexuality. . . .
Even more important to the mise-en-scène is the women’s collec-
tivity.”9 She continues: “Women’s very physical presence is defined
here in women’s terms, collectively” (229). Thomas Waugh argues
that gay and lesbian documentaries—also, for him, defined
primarily by their collaborative...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Research Group in critical feminist studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2011, as part of Arsenal Pulp Press's Queer Film Classics series, he published a book about the 1977 gay and lesbian documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives . He is presently at work on a larger book...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in a variety of other contexts, including Ann
Cvetkovich, “In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary
and Popular Culture,” Camera Obscura, no. 49 (2002): 107 – 47;
Histories of The Watermelon Woman • 63
and Kathleen McHugh, “Where Hollywood Fears...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 27–63.
Published: 01 May 2016
... departure from the
gay and lesbian fantasies of collective living incited by the sexual
revolutions of the 1970s, so often represented in gay and lesbian
documentaries and perhaps still haunting even the most radical of
queer theories. The film thus unsettles not only the fundamental
elements...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2024
... retrospective screenings stubbornly seeks to preserve the aura of the Mardi Gras footage. It aims to safeguard the original meaning of the footage within the documentary—as lesbian authored, as aligned politically with gay and women's liberation, as a significant act of bearing witness. This strategy can...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 189–218.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., “Walking on Tippy Toes: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the Post-Stonewall Period 1969–84,” in Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary , ed. Chris Holmlund and Cynthia Fuchs (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 107–24; B. Ruby Rich, New Queer Cinema...
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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 84–87.
Published: 01 December 2021
... decade of the filmmaker's life. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Hammer made work dealing with her body; gave footage she shot over the years to several filmmakers to finish as they wished; set up a grant for lesbian experimental filmmakers; and collaborated with curators, archivists, and her partner...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
...) with lesbian main characters made by women directors
in Asia since 2000:
China: The Box (He zi, dir. Ying Weiwei, 2001) (documentary),
Fish and Elephant (Yu he Daxiang, dir. Li Yu, 2002), Lost in You
(Lalala, dir. Zhu Yiye, 2006), Love Mime (Xiaoshu de xiatian, dir.
Zhu Yiye...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 195–214.
Published: 01 September 1985
...- American
feminist filmmakers attempting to challenge dominant patriarchal repre-
sentations. Kaplan divides these films into three categories: (1) the experi-
mental, formalist, avant-garde film, (2) the realist political and socio-
logical documentary, and (3) the avant-garde theory film...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Colleen Jankovic; Nadia Awad While expanding critiques of pinkwashing have drawn increasing attention to how queer issues in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories are perniciously mobilized by a network of lobby groups, Brand Israel initiatives, and international gay and lesbian...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 219–226.
Published: 01 December 1989
...
as a whole was the target audience for feminist documentaries made
in the seventies, and that group discussions revealed differences in
men’s and women’s responses to the talking-head, biographical film.
As I recall after showing Kate Millett’s Three Lives, a student came
up to me...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 112–147.
Published: 01 September 1985
...Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985
Reconstructing Documentary:
Connie Hatch’s Representational Resistance
AbzguiZ Solomon- Godeuzl
Above my desk, affixed to my bulletin board is a poster from an exhibition
entitled Photo Politic which took place five...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 93–121.
Published: 01 May 2016
...-garde, French and Spanish queer cinema, audience research, and transgender documentary. © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 video collectives Carole Roussopoulos Portapak post-1968 French activism Figure 1. Y a qu’à pas baiser! ( Just Don’t Fuck!,
dir. Carole Roussopoulos, France, 1973...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 136–143.
Published: 01 May 1981
... Claudia
Weill a feminist filmmaker was rightly criticized for its equation of
feminine with feminist and for its unawareness of the rather insidious
liberalizing of stereotypes in Gir2friends and its heterosexual bias (the
scene between the lesbian hitchhiker...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 165–175.
Published: 01 September 2012
... addressing current public dissent and protests across the globe; What Isn't There , a fifteen-year ongoing photo installation project that documents Palestinian villages that no longer exist; and the award-winning feature documentary Zero Degrees of Separation . Flanders is a PhD candidate in the Visual...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 147–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
... covers the growth of the organization since the 1970s, the close connection between feminist film theory and independent filmmaking in the 1980s, changes in the culture of documentary, gender inequities in film directing and in financing of films about women, the impact of digital culture on educational...
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