Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 850 Search Results for
like
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 75–117.
Published: 01 September 2010
... 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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 111–135.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and theorist. Camera Obscura 2008
“Jackie Treehorn Treats Objects
Like Women Two Types of
Fetishism in The Big Lebowski
Brian Wall
It is the hardest thing in the world to be a materialist. In theory,
that is — as a theorist. Even though thought seems irreducible in
its linguistic...
Image
/10.1215_02705346-9349315/3/s_cob9349315figure5.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=cwW9dVFwWJYtWSDBgNJDjIeMNkD7EcUzpKYN8O0WobuZQ3yGbV7wrSoa~AMlgc~M9orvqNHShkNXhfYTW6Oj93~oFmWgiiRhjq5aFHzF2GboXU-zn5OlBnut1sJqflweMBR6OgksywnHJVsh7uvBGMpWzPa~ixx42j3ve2WbfdGZtCyMePfNhyJeBU5qEIVsgnzAjsvV64CJ6yWKH8Qbfgtha5Mst64apwDwhaZ2ooqIU0-tMwOv7n3z6-1kpM0rUrIhCcTiHP1e~Fr0pGM~HKii1FEJWhMUV6lHSu7HegYjXBr6HtXWYeRB6XTC23uCcG-qQrVrzaJM4-1ceeXpxA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
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.
More
Journal Article
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...
Image
/10.1215_02705346-11024122/1/s_cob11024122figure1.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=lP~nvHZcklWXskqA6wxyl0hvahBeaQC0BLpAXyZmUl~9b2lqioCgERlLVdaJQFYJhtIbLUBXFZuGIckRNH8xvsDtv4BNeNpoaIAaJv8dKhFobWX~MPe-axrmjW0JSp-MpE3wfcapeiHb~sKdGGACwmfrGigYS2Mj-vLJkaTVi1vRWYxBaZFSlLTWVAZZh-i~0WhzXhr9MVkDWeJ~z0E5vQHxSw-QVMeYgh3LjlOO8rY3XB0WAmRLnnIA34rcPZexN9RSKJyo8XXt~QJfhGISMKLWLcmrfPHDH3fBD4wdthCHJ8vvFOzQTM6nzdSRwDFvVKfgJsHSF8mljhkeK7hslg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. Arabella takes pleasure in social media likes and comments. I May Destroy You (HBO, 2020).
More
Image
/10.1215_02705346-10654941/1/s_cob10654941figure1.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=W7274Tbf78yrtc5nuhv0L5k7S2Q8w-PEtbVP4fOiVieY~ZxXADKkDDeubWDBfx8Ug78RCNlxm5VFZSX8PHBKhWyMuLa1vD0s9FDEUDFabFL4KGNtJvxxm9VsCICO8p4mtxPFx41VuIRFo-kN1MSLKSo7Sk2rhMOTgBYcBgGxhgGyqclC~rDTHaDi5hussqieoTzlY27RVV3saEWYVxaCHL56F9Or9i5tDW3V3kx6zHMkNOaUlIZeSY6fhVsm6BNrPOencjECc7sv6xZitDg2i0gL1Y6YmjdvaOCldrPuet0xCXyaGv2VxJBadjqdrSYBRLxaUriuDGlHnF9BAHurRA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
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).
More
Image
/10.1215_02705346-11024096/1/s_cob11024096figure2.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=aFUJ-37im1d4~EfRvX1-kSl~bBegelo1mVFtwFr6~oIvddW5Kr77DcqH9t6j92FZ-pRKMMkwtOu8NCoWHreW1HImEZaLl1jcnelkQI4iOV1bbMXn0pOj3nGjtYYZe9rsSctdF6WhIqO~E3sOn16xV7S8HM3J--mL0xLPRZS8sUNxTigvVBfkKOAdU5mzl~5uj96Xm0B2O3Os58Iq4RPgQJVCDDhZ62Uz9yCbhMfaK9Ilanw6ih1doVykFzSn-JmNXhHFMFmYBXc0xhw6xl~FNPsH4vlUkPed9uJfo36GxbIbJmGQ6JyFqMRgXdpLU-0IPAJq1MXWROIPwbLRsCnNDQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
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)
More
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Image
/10.1215_02705346-11207789/2/s_cob11207789figure2.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=K2IQe1HZHvLTiFRYlssliSQljoF~BVTC69R9NdOTcjFjEQuJqmDMz0Iyj1tHibbap5vOZuxJPc46-eE6~5F3C8uxKcV6O5k5RW3PbA8EoA-ujh7QHgRckUMdYUs-yKAo5oDLovSrwhVLlTnI3FeaSxPjORYZZ9ghnh0PrGVK38FSqkwB5qPSJ23PsMjuob6onOdb-CWr2BL3WymNZROlbQ6LIxeceQpdd31Y~BbkUInMnoMCP6aR9NI7NrjMU2gnoQTbTuFnZMZlqhhzho8F8ybT04P3NzDY20pRYLzBnZG6CtLumaD4vpIlm0WtfkKamQbBccBmfSfh~7WnEpn4Gg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
Published: 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
More
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2010
... on a more recent slate of girl-oriented consumer electronics: mediamaking gear for girls. Like the “pink software” of the girl games era, much of this “pink technology” relies on design strategies grounded in stereotypes of girls, girlhood, and girls' culture in order to attract female youth to historically...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 173–181.
Published: 01 September 2010
... factories along the Mexico-US border began relocating to China, leaving behind thousands of unemployed workers and a chaotic urban milieu devastated by faulty infrastructure and toxic industrial waste. The story is told from the perspective of resilient workers-activists ( promotoras ), dauntless women like...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 65–89.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... Supernanny is a hybrid form of pedagogical television: Third Way TV — a commercialization of the public service model. In a time when public subsidies and the delivery of services like child care have all but disappeared, the institution of commercial television easily fills the gap. Supernanny readily...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to be shaped by this very difference. Further, through initiatives like the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement, networks of filmmakers and film enthusiasts from communities historically mis- or underrepresented in film are beginning to shift the constitution of festival audiences and thereby...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and desire — this essay cannot consider the photograph in isolation from others like it, because the calendar serializes and is itself a serial and because the photograph is a copy-image of a beloved object that itself becomes beloved. It is the copy rather than the original that must stay behind...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 125–133.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., this piece articulates some of the core values expressed when WMM was founded — values like community, feminist activism, access, and support — and suggests that these values established important precedents for WMM's institutional identity. This historical overview also shows how WMM's community workshops...
1
