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The “Newer Angels” and the Living Dead: The Ethics of Screening Obsessional Desire
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 15–41.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Molly Anne Rothenberg Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 Original design by Tom Pribyl, from a photo by Thomas DiPiero
The “Newer Angels” and the Living Dead:
The Ethics of Screening Obsessional Desire
Molly Anne Rothenberg .
Apparently, we...
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Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupac's Live Performance at Coachella
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 29–53.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and archive, and death and the image. This essay traces the ghostliness of entertainers speaking from beyond the grave and the new interpretive problems that come to the fore when the performance is “live” but the performer isn't. Bringing together star discourse, media ontology, and sound studies...
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The Many Lives of Mr. Yunioshi:: Yellowface and the Queer Buzz of Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
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The Many Lives of Mr. Yunioshi:
Yellowface and the Queer Buzz of
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Melissa Phruksachart
Much like its female protagonist Holly Golightly, Truman Capote’s
1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s has led a chameleonic life. The
narrative about...
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Making Television Live: Mediating Biopolitics in Obesity Programming
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Michael Litwack How can we understand television's pervasive ideology of liveness at a moment in which the medium increasingly invests in the vital capacities of individuals and populations? This article approaches this question by looking at the imbrication of televisual liveness and a perhaps...
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Sexual and Intersectional: Region, Family, Disability, and Lived Experience in Lee Chang-dong's Oasis
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 28–65.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Kathleen McHugh Abstract This article rereads Lee Chang‐dong's 2002 film Oasis (South Korea) from a feminist disability media studies perspective. It begins with Lee's recent revelation that his sister's lived experience inspired its narrative. That inspiration, inflected by regional (South Korean...
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. Carolee Schneemann, Glass Environment for Sound and Motion , the Living Theatre, New York (1962). From left: Malcolm Goldstein, Yvonne Rainer, and Andre Cadet. Photograph: Steve Schapiro. Courtesy of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation; P•P•O•W, New York; Galerie Lelong, New York
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How EXPRMNTL Made the Small Coastal Town of Knokke the Scene for Radical Artistic New Waves and Political Sea Changes
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 169–179.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., that there are different bourgeoisies and different undergrounds and they can clash in many ways. Just as we still live with the heritage of May 1968 in Paris, in the experimental film world so too we still live with the aftermath of EXPRMNTL 4 in 1967 in the small town of Knokke. When the fifth edition of the festival...
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Maquilapolis : An Interview with Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 173–181.
Published: 01 September 2010
... (Tijuana, Baja California) and chronicles the lives of maquiladora workers who experience firsthand the debilitating effects of development driven by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) along the Mexico-US border. The making of the film coincided with the global economic crisis of 2001, when...
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All That Glitters Isn’t Gold: Auma Obama’s Nightmare of Postunification Germany
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 75–101.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Priscilla Layne Between 1990 and 1997, Auma Obama, half-sister of Barack Obama, studied at the Berlin Film and Television Academy (DFFB). For her final project, Obama wrote and directed All That Glitters (1993), a short film about Wendo, a Kenyan woman living in Bayreuth, married to a white German...
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CHANTAL? A Dialogue with Sonia Wieder-Atherton
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 197–217.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., 1988). D’Est ( From the East , France/Belgium, 1993) is featured for its impact on the future work of both artists and expanding Chantal’s work from the big screen to live performance with D’Est in Music (2005). Their passion for the live stage and breaking the confines of the film frame is seen...
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Ethical Whiteness and the Death Drive: White Women as the New War Hero
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... domains of war and political machinations. While one film takes on a serious ethical polemic (the innocent lives of civilians caught in the visual crosshairs of drone cameras) and the latter is a romantic comedy following the adventures of a journalist in Afghanistan, both visually capture important...
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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
... affirms past queer lives, celebrating and highlighting rebelliousness, agency, creativity, queer kinship, and passion. Additionally, Hammer attempts to communicate with and embody the past, physically and emotionally seeking out and feeling the interior and exterior lives of her biographical subjects, who...
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Not New to This: A Genealogical Approach to Black Girls’ Media Production
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2022
... the pulse of Black life; the role of digital media in the lives of twenty‐first‐century Black Americans mirrors that of Black magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Of particular note is the way that Black youth, especially Black girls, use digital media spaces to make...
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Imagining Television as a Vital Queer Medium: Riot
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... Between its opening framing as televisual event and its riot sequence, the telemovie privileges television's past and future capacity to both document and dramatize historical events and also to broadcast queer visibility to the nation. Through its collage of archival effects and codes of liveness, Riot...
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Surviving the Reset: Speedrunning Spyro , Trans Mundanity, and Playing in the Impasse
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 149–175.
Published: 01 December 2024
... the temporalities and affective dimensions of both, as well as the ways media practices and subjectivity become intertwined. To be specific, the article examines the experience of living in the impasse, which is brought on by temporal engagements, such as the reset and the grind, with videogames. Living...
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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Transnational Feminist Spectatorship and Farida Benlyazid's A Door to the Sky
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 107–137.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and the Middle East. This article examines how Benlyazid's first feature at once engages and resists the burdens of representation that accrue to it as it circulates transnationally. Alternately proposing and withholding insights into Muslim women's lives, Benlyazid's film strives to adapt mainstream narrative...
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From This Body to Yours: Porn, Affect, and Performance Art Documentation
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 63–93.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... In reperformance, the documentation image is made live again , thereby reorienting its temporal relationship to performance. Through an examination of the work of porn-star-turned-performance-artist Annie Sprinkle, the “grandmother of performance art” Marina Abramović, and younger Canadian artist Diane Borsato...
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Road Movie : Notes from the Field
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 165–175.
Published: 01 September 2012
... dissimulation as a democratic and progressive nation in its advancement of queer-rights (commonly referred to as pinkwashing ), “Notes from the Field” exposes the realities of occupation and its impact on the lives of Palestinians, including queers and their profound interventions. Through a critique...
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Sex Out of Sync: Christmas on Earth 's and Couch 's Queer Sound Tracks
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Lucas Hilderbrand This essay draws from queer theory and sound studies in an analysis of two sexually explicit 1960s underground films that refused synchronization: Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth (US, 1963), which is intended to be screened with a live radio sound track, and Andy Warhol's Couch...
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Afterlife and Afterimage: Maya Deren in “Transfigured Time”
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2013
... that revisits the places in which she lived and the people whom she encountered. Lucy Fischer is Distinguished Professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author or editor of nine books: Jacques Tati ; Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema...
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