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Collective Writing Projects Online and the Challenges of the Promise Economy

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Hanna Kuusela
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 65–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3662009
Published: 01 December 2016
... 2016 Crowdsourcing collaborative writing literary crowd-funding promise economy processuality Figure 1. A screenshot of the crowdsourcing campaign Web page for Daniel Perlmutter’s “Unwritten Masterpiece” project, first launched in 2012 Collective Writing Projects Online...
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The Confidence Game

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B. Ruby Rich
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 157–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2017005
Published: 01 May 2013
... of feminist cinema but, alas, discovered that WMM’s workshops had deteriorated into a platform for its members’ own productions. Meanwhile, NYSCA had initiated its own funding for film­makers and would eventually fund Barbara Kopple, Camille Billops, Jill Godmilow, Yvonne Rainer, Lizzie Borden, Jennie...
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Big Affect: The Ephemeral Archive of Second-Wave Feminist Video Collectives in Canada

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Marusya Bociurkiw
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3661991
Published: 01 December 2016
...: Television Nationalism and Affect (2011) and four literary books, including the award-winning food memoir Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl (2007). Her media works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the National Archives, and various universities and libraries...
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Memory Once Removed: Indirect Memory and Transitive Autobiography in Chantal Akerman's D'Est

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Alisa Lebow
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 35–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-18-1_52-35
Published: 01 May 2003
... Smith Purchase Fund, 1995 Memory Once Removed: Indirect Memory and Transitive Autobiography in Chantal Akerman’s D’Est Alisa Lebow In the Imaginary Jew, contemporary French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut laments that while his Jewishness furnished him with the deepest, most...
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John Waters's Vulgarity: Trash Cinema, Serial Mom , and the Politics of Abjection

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Ashley T. Shelden
Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): iv–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11606544
Published: 01 May 2025
... transgressions—belongs to us all. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Serial Mom 's fixation on the ways that the suburban home is depicted as a repository of trash. Every domestic space in this film mirrors the crowded mise-en-scène of the flea market that I discussed earlier. The Sterners’ bedroom...
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Appropriate Feminisms: Ambivalence and Citational Practice in Appropriate Behavior

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Clara Bradbury-Rance
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 145–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013660
Published: 01 December 2022
... by mocking the Brooklyn hipster crowd for “talking about their Kickstarter campaigns” and dismissing an OKCupid date for declaring his desire to use “comedy to bring attention to social justice issues.” While Akhavan frequently demonstrates her awareness of the role she plays in telling stories...
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“How much did you pay for this place?” Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman

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Aviva Briefel, Sianne Ngai
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 69–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-1_37-69
Published: 01 January 1996
...-city neighborhoods following Reagan's drastic cuts in public housing funds: The housing crisis for the poor reached a new level of severity under policies of deliberate cruelty during the Reagan and Bush administrations. From 1977 to 1980, during the Carter administration, the federal...
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Cinemactivism: Film Reform, Spectatorship, and the Cleveland Cinema Club

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John G. Nichols
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 33–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2352149
Published: 01 December 2013
... through censorship or prescreening committees in the 1910s. This strand of thinking culminated in the Payne Fund Studies of the late 1920s and early 1930s and other attempts to link child and adolescent behaviors with those groups’ attendance at movies. The other mode by which film study...
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Warrior Marks : Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context

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Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 4–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-3_39-4
Published: 01 September 1996
... flyers on the subject of global feminism tied to the 1995 UN Beijing Women's Conference. We at- tended the screening of the rough cut of the film at the 1993 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian film festival where a capacity crowd en- thusiastically applauded the presentation of a special director's award...
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Technologies of Early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body

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Jennifer M. Bean
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 9–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-16-3_48-9
Published: 01 December 2001
... reporters turned to an enumerative structure, akin to the idiom of lists, when describing the star’s ceaseless momentum. “In France French soldiers on furlough idolize her,” began one commentator’s litany: “In Porto Rico [sic] she crowds the theatres. In Bombay she figures frequently...
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The Wages of Affluence: The High-Rise Housewife in Japanese Sex Films

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Anne McKnight
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1533430
Published: 01 May 2012
... that privatization and gen- dered space galvanized both social thought and literary/cinematic representation throughout the s and s and worked to obscure what had been seen as public politics. The Wages of Af uence • Social theorist Tada Michitaro¯ explains...
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History in Miniature: Colleen Moore's Dollhouse and Historical Recollection

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Amelie Hastie
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 113–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-16-3_48-113
Published: 01 December 2001
... about the dollhouse and its tour. These ads functioned 120 • Camera Obscura like literary or cinematic serials: although each could clearly stand on its own, to a certain extent they depended on prior knowledge of the story (Moore’s identity, information about the tour in general, and so forth...
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Recovering the Lone Mother: Howards End As Aesthetic Anodyne

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E. Kim Stone
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 43–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-19-1_55-43
Published: 01 May 2004
... debates and Howards End were focused on a crisis of class hostility, a crisis in which lone mothers participated as disturbing catalysts. My juxtaposition of these two discourses seems odd because critical discourse on Howards End as a heritage film—a costume drama based on literary works...
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From Elif to Esty? Unorthodox and Turkish German Cinema's Captivity Narrative

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Olivia Landry
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 119–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9787042
Published: 01 September 2022
... calls the “cinema of duty,” early Turkish German cinema often played to the expectations placed on filmmakers by a German audience. 11 As Göktürk puts it, “They have been expected to make films about the problems of their people. To receive funding, filmmakers have been almost driven to represent...
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Turkish Cinema in the New Europe: Visualizing Ethnic Conflict in Sinan Çetin's Berlin in Berlin

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Angelica Fenner
Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 105–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-15-2_44-105
Published: 01 September 2000
... in Germany!” thereby establishing not himself but his mother as final arbiter. Adelson’s assessment of Torkan’s literary production seems equally pertinent in this filmic instance: what emerges is “the sense of personal accountability...
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