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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 125–151.
Published: 01 September 2003
... the Look”:
Jonathan Demme’s
The Silence of the Lambs
Andrew Schopp
Much of the initial reaction to Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation
of The Silence of the Lambs (US, 1991)1 centered on the film’s prob-
lematic depiction of serial killer Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine), as this
depiction...
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 93–104.
Published: 01 September 1977
...Bertrand Augst The Defilement Into the Look.
Bertrand Augst
Thierry Kuntzel's' closescrutiny of the effect produced by the defilement
of a series of still images passing through the gates of a projector, and
Raymond Bellour's- analysis of the inflection of the film-text resulting...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 54–85.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Kaja Silverman Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989
Fassbinder and Lacan: A Reconsideration of
Gaze, Look and Image
Kaja Silverman
Although the descriptive phrase “aesthetics of pessimism” derives from
Fassbinder himself,l it might well have been...
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 88–115.
Published: 01 December 1982
...Margaret Ganahl; R. S. Hamilton Copyright © 1982 by Camera Obscura 1982
One Plus One:
A Look at Six Fois Deux
Margaret Ganahl and R. S. Hamilton
No one really knows
Or cares whether this is the whole of which...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 91–117.
Published: 01 September 2022
... situate The Girl and the Picture in the dynamic context of the flourishing domestic and international Nanjing Massacre film industry, which, in my opinion, is closely connected with the broader historical context of memorializing of the Nanjing Massacre. I look at how the adoption of the trope of family...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 147–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
...
in practice: women make movies at forty
Looking Back and Forward:
A Conversation about
Women Make Movies
Debra Zimmerman and Patricia White
In the summer of 1984 I interned at Women Make Movies, work-
ing closely with Debra Zimmerman, the organization’s relatively
new director...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 159–169.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Lovely, and the McDonagh sisters. However, women s participation in the industry diminished significantly after the 1930s. As producer Jan Chapman Looking Back, Moving Forward: Retrospectives at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival Janice Loreck, Sian Mitchell, Whitney Monaghan, and Kirsten Stevens...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 115–147.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., and a reader of Hermann Broch's The Sleepwalkers . 15 And Antonioni shows their first encounter by emphasizing this phantasmagoric setup. In contrast to an almost classic shot/reverse shot exchange of looks between Lidia and Valentina when they first see each other, the second time we encounter Valentina...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 35–61.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the division between seeing and being seen, particularly for women viewers, while enacting strategies to contain and discipline women. They mobilize women's navigation of visual subjectivity and objectification only to eschew their ability to look and reify their status as objects to be looked at. By taking...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 149–159.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Shana MacDonald Abstract This article looks at the work of the Drunk Feminist Film (DFF) collective from Toronto, Canada. DFF screenings offer interactive in‐person and online events that combine watching popular Hollywood films with simultaneous live commentary, audience participation, and hashtag...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 155–165.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of visibility in an age of pervasive surveillance, Blas and Gaboury look to the work of artists and critical thinkers who offer alternate modes of veiled, obscured, or otherwise negotiated being in the world. Focusing on Blas's own work, the conversation interrogates what Blas terms “informatic opacity” through...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 197–217.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Sandra Percival This essay brings to the fore the voice of composer and cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton, who was Chantal Akerman’s collaborator and life partner for over thirty years. This dialogue was initiated in 2016 by Sandra Percival, founding director of Zena Zezza, who curated LOOKING, REALLY...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 132–141.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of creating a visual archive to offer a look back and a look forward at the practice of Black photography. © 2020 by Camera Obscura 2020 archive Black photography Black visual culture Figure 1. Willis proposed this independent research project in 1973. Scholars working in media studies, film...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 59–83.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and transgressively intimate mode of looking at bodies. At the same time, the shame involved in this act of looking animates a sense of social connectedness and feelings of relatedness to others that are also pleasurably intimate. The viewer's pleasure in this intimacy can be understood in relation to the traditional...
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in Daughter of Saul, or Saul Leanya : The Gendered Place of Atrocity in László Nemes's Son of Saul
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. A Nazi doctor strangles a young survivor of Zyklon B gassing as a Hungarian doctor and another SK man look on ( Son of Saul , dir. László Nemes, Hungary, 2015).
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of these discussions and explore their interrelations, by looking at the film through a history and analysis of cinematic reflexivity. As a metacinematic work both by and about an African American lesbian director, the film has much to say about the means of its own production and, even further, about the way...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Kenneth Chan By first looking at the gay consumption of melodrama, this essay presents the notion of tears as a political trope to negotiate the reclamation of crying from being a signifier of gendered/sexual “weakness” to one of tactical empowerment, a tactics of tears. Gay political readings...
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Why Isn't Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy ? Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.'s And I Do Survive
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Ani Maitra In a conversation with the queer South Asian independent filmmaker and video artist Hima B. and through an analysis of her cinema verité work-in-progress And I Do Survive , this interview-article looks at the relationship between televisual discourse and “citizenship” as a form...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., there is a danger of underplaying, reifying, or of just not looking at the spaces of belonging and inhabitance that are also characteristic of an era of transnational migration. As a result, theories of transnational and diasporic cinema run the risk of closing down spaces for considering the complexities...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., industrial, and transnational levels. In the Twilight series, Pattinson's highly flexible star image appeals to audiences with different kinds of sexual or romantic desires, for if we look carefully at the way Edward Cullen is represented, and how Pattinson is marketed in the media, he is portrayed as both...
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