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“Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn?” Film as a Vehicle of Sensual Education
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 75–117.
Published: 01 September 2010
... and Rudolph Valentino look on
as director Sam Wood gamely plays the beau.
Courtesy of Donna Hill
“Would you like to sin with
Elinor Glyn?” Film as a
Vehicle of Sensual Education
Laura Horak
Today Elinor Glyn is best known for inventing “It,” the indefin-
able sex appeal of Clara Bow...
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Finding Home in Bend It Like Beckham and Last Resor t
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2011
... in the UK, Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort (2000). Irene Gedalof is a senior lecturer at London Metropolitan University, where she teaches in the equality and diversity and film studies programs. Her current research focuses on questions of home...
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“Jackie Treehorn Treats Objects Like Women!”: Two Types of Fetishism in The Big Lebowski
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 111–135.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and theorist. Camera Obscura 2008 Brian Wall is an assistant professor of cinema at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is currently working on a manuscript exploring Theodor Adorno's conceptions of spirit in relation to cinema.
“Jackie Treehorn Treats Objects
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in Re witched : Retextuality and the Queering of Bewitched
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 5. Like FamilyNet before it, FETV's social media campaign for Bewitched primarily features Samantha's use of magic for women's work.
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in Archaeological Narrative; or, Nostalgic Fascination with the Obsolete in the South Korean TV Drama Reply 1988
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 2. The alley that helps the characters function like a family. Reply 1988 (tvN, 2015–16)
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in Archaeological Narrative; or, Nostalgic Fascination with the Obsolete in the South Korean TV Drama Reply 1988
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 3. Media remediation and puzzle-like narratives. Reply 1988 (tvN, 2015–16)
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Faceblindness, Visual Pleasure, and Racial Recognition: Ethnicity and Technicity in Ted Chiang's “Liking What You See: A Documentary”
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 135–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
... induces another kind of damage, or agnosia: the ability to evaluate facial beauty. “Liking What You See” reflects on the ways in which such a technology might either disrupt or reproduce gender and racial ideologies by altering people's ability to recognize and experience a particular form of visual...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. Arabella takes pleasure in social media likes and comments. I May Destroy You (HBO, 2020).
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in Calculating Couples: Computing Intimacy and 1980s Romance Software
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 1. Software cover art for IntraCourse (Intracorp, 1986) resembles the aesthetics of popular sex manuals like The Joy of Sex , by Alex Comfort (1972).
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Nightmare sequence in which Dr. Alex Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is shock...
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in Revisiting Queer and Trans Representation in Junior
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2. Nightmare sequence in which Dr. Alex Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is shocked to find his exact likeness on his newborn's face. Junior (dir. Ivan Reitman, US, 1994)
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Slapstick Comediennes in Transitional Cinema: Between Body and Medium
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 85–117.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of a male cigar smoker who gets pestered by two micrographic nicotine fairies; and a Pathé slapstick comedy, Betty Pulls the Strings (dir. Roméo Bosetti, 1910), about a madcap female trickster whose pranks wreak mass anarchy. Whereas films like Princess Nicotine micromanage their comediennes' unruly bodily...
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Little Red Riding Hood Meets Freud in Lucrecia Martel's Salta Trilogy
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 93–115.
Published: 01 December 2014
... the action in these films appears to develop in a political vacuum, the trilogy reads like a fairy tale and, more specifically, like a rereading of “Little Red Riding Hood” from a feminist perspective. At the same time, however, hints that La Ciénaga is set in the late 1970s, La niña santa in the 1980s...
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Epistemology of the Answering Machine: Cher, Chaz, Mourning, and Some Trans Archives
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2020
... “relegate the embodied voice to a service role of rendering audible the coherent thought.” Similarly, for trans-gender individuals undergoing vocal change, media technologies of vocality like the telephone and the answering machine—the subject of this article—do more than render subjects audible. Through...
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Mourning and Music in Blue Velvet
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 137–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... within musical performance functions as a likely origin for the murderous rage of the film's antagonist, Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). Frank tries, via mimicry, to displace intimations of homosexuality that arise within musical performance. But the film suggests that mimicry is likely to fail...
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Interfaces of Identity: Oriental Traitors and Telematic Profiling in 24
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
... media technologies. Technophilic television programs like 24 , which create pleasure out of paranoia and dramas out of identification, employ digital special effects sequences like FRSs to demonstrate the power of both cinema and science to reveal hidden identities. These identities are often racialized...
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The default folder organization of the “This PC” view in Windows 10, as an ...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 September 2024
Figure 2. The default folder organization of the “This PC” view in Windows 10, as an example of the desktop metaphor used in operating systems today. Note that the folders are on their sides and open, showing objects nestled inside of them, like documents and pictures. Because the author's
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Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 113–143.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of race and sexuality, as well as of formulating “queer of color” as a kind of critical modality. Much like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin functions, according to Sigmund Freud, as a cultural artifact prized in the form of an idealized beating fantasy by the Victorian (white) child, Imitation...
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Beyond Indiewood: The Everyday Ethics of Nicole Holofcener
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 137–159.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., where female characters grapple with the ethical conduct of themselves and their environment. While comparable to the brittle satire of “smart” film directors like Solondz, Neil LaBute, and Noah Baumbach, Holofcener never allows her work to drift into absurd or taboo territory. Instead she advances...
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“Quality” Reality and the Bravo Media Reality Series
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 185–195.
Published: 01 May 2015
... audience and a boutique show. In addition, the article suggests that the audience is already embedded in the show through affective economies, product placement, extradiegetic activities like blogging, and a more intimate relationship with television executives than ever before. Bravo Media points...
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Raised Fists: Politics, Technology, and Embodiment in 1970s French Feminist Video Collectives
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 93–121.
Published: 01 May 2016
... but rather emerges, so to speak, through the lines, much like the video image itself. Ros Murray is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the film studies department at Queen Mary University of London. Her work focuses on 1970s feminist video collectives. She has published on the French avant...
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