... sensitive way of being in the world. Through the point of view of the female protagonist, this film moves from a contemplative to a loving and epistemically productive gaze; in so doing, this story about learning to love what passes writes the history of women's cinematic subjectivity as the worldly...

... Sundance Institute I N PRAC TICE: FESTIVALS, F I L M, FE MIN I S M Evolving Narrative Structures Forge New Cine-Love at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Roya Rastegar As a young admirer of cinema, I yearned for that mythical experi- ence of being...

... contracts to repeat and return to the object of desire. In arguing that the ao dai (long dress) photograph as a copy-image of a lost or disappearing referent is central to a contemporary diasporic erotic — a feeling-state of disrupted history rendered (and recovered) in mythical terms through love and...

...Huike Wen Dwelling Narrowness ( Wo ju , translated literally as “snail dwelling”) became Chinese netizens' “favorite TV drama” in 2009. In this paper, I focus on a complex of issues in contemporary Chinese society about which Dwelling Narrowness provoked extensive discussion: love, sex, and...

...Jean-Luc Godard Copyright © 1982 by Camera Obscura 1982 Passion (Love and Work) Jean-Luc Godard A small provincial village in a region out of the way and yet modern. A factory with some twenty female workers, young for the most part, who accept any salary as long as there’s work...

...David L. Eng Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 Love at Last Site: Waiting for Oedipus in Stanley Kwan’s Rouge Duvid L. Eng And when, in the city in which I love you, even my most excellent song goes unanswered...

... Journal . Currently he is working on a manuscript about national emergencies in US literature and culture before 2001. Courtney Love can reach him at jacksonchar@uhd.edu . Star Hole (for Courtney Love) Chuck Jackson On Saint Patrick’s Day 2004, she appeared on The Late Show with David...

...Joe Wlodarz Camera Obscura 2008 Joe Wlodarz is an assistant professor of film studies at the University of Western Ontario. His book American Macho is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. Love Letter to Jane Joe Wlodarz Dear Jane, I can’t fully express how...

... progress titled “Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production.” Love and Fit Lisa Henderson “I wish I were her, I really do.”  — Meryl Streep, accepting an American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, June 2004 I wish I were her too. Twenty-eight years ago, as...

...Lucas Hilderbrand Camera Obscura 2008 Lucas Hilderbrand is an assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. His book Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright is forthcoming from Duke University Press. “More Than One Way to Love...

... relationality such as Trinh T. Minh-ha's concept of “speaking nearby” and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's notion of “besideness,” this article additionally suggests that Conti's ventriloquial documentary opens us to the possibility of a puppet love distinct from heteronormative constructs. Sarah Kessler is a PhD...

... (dir. Mimi Chakarova, US, 2011) opens and closes the film. Courtesy of Women Make Movies The Mysteries of Voice: Love and Transnational Identification inPerforming the Border, The Price of Sex, and Señorita extraviada Shilyh Warren Ursula Biemann’s voice...

... Obscura 2017 Brony fandom male privilege My Little Pony Figure 1. Lanyards for the thirteenth annual UK Ponycon, October 2016, Leeds “Little girls and the things that they love”: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Audience, Identity, and the Privilege of Contemporary Fan Culture...

...Claudia Lo Amid the ongoing popularity of hundred-hour, epic-length stories or never-ending, procedurally generated games, where is the place for short games with defined endings? Anna Anthropy's Queers in Love at the End of the World (2013) rejects the importance of having a lengthy game and flips...

...Jackie Stacey Sally Potter’s film Yes (UK/US, 2004) stages the political possibilities of cosmopolitanism through the aesthetics of a heterosexual love story whose failures reveal the limit points of such a vision. Read psychoanalytically, cosmopolitan aspirations share with love an idealizing...

...Kristen Hatch This essay explores the role that men played — as costars and fans — in Shirley Temple's film career, arguing that Temple's stardom stood at the juncture of two paradigms. It was built upon the fairly stable understanding that male child loving signified men's discipline and restraint...

...Rajani Sudan Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Company Loves Misery Rajani Sudan Preconceived formations of identity dominate much of Hollywood cinematic production. Rob Reiner’s Misery (1990) is a particularly striking example of this kind of assumption. Reiner...

...Lynn Spigel Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985 Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski’s Loving with a Engeance: Mass-Prodgced Fantasies for Women Lynn S’igel Loving With a Vengeance’ is an attempt to locate a collective feminine fantasy in ‘mass-produced...

... a volume on German popular film with Randall Halle. 06-McCarthy 176-201=26pgs 1/25/01 1:48 PM Page 176 06-McCarthy 176-201=26pgs 1/25/01 1:48 PM Page 177 Teutonic Water: Effervescent Otherness in Doris Dörrie’s Nobody Loves Me...

...Eithne Johnson Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 Theresa Saldana in Confessions of Crime. Lifetime’s Feminine Psychographic Space and the “Mystery Loves Company” Series Eitbne Johnson Since its debut in 1984, Lifetime Television has been carving a niche in...