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Passion (Love and Work)
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 124–130.
Published: 01 December 1982
...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...
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Learning to Love What Passes: Sensual Perception, Temporal Transformation, and Epistemic Production in Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 69–101.
Published: 01 September 2008
... 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 exercise...
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Evolving Narrative Structures Forge New Cine-Love at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., 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 overwhelmed by the moving image in a dark room
of strangers. But my...
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Diasporic Erotic: Love, Loss, and the Copy
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
... 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...
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Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
Published: 01 September 2014
...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...
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Love at Last Site: Waiting for Oedipus in Stanley Kwans Rouge
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 75–101.
Published: 01 September 1993
...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...
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“Little girls and the things that they love”: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , Audience, Identity, and the Privilege of Contemporary Fan Culture
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 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
Ewan...
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Everything Is Wiped Away: Queer Temporality in Queers in Love at the End of the World
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 185–192.
Published: 01 September 2017
...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...
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Star Hole (for Courtney Love)
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 154–157.
Published: 01 September 2007
... , and Faulkner Journal . Currently he is working on a manuscript about national emergencies in US literature and culture before 2001. Courtney Love can reach him at [email protected] . Star Hole (for Courtney Love)
Chuck Jackson
On Saint Patrick’s Day 2004, she appeared on The Late Show...
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Love Letter to Jane
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 160–164.
Published: 01 May 2008
...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...
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Love and Fit
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 172–177.
Published: 01 May 2008
... in 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...
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“More Than One Way to Love”: On Kiki and Herb (but Mostly Kiki)
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 178–183.
Published: 01 May 2008
... to Love”:
On Kiki and Herb (but Mostly Kiki)
Lucas Hilderbrand
“Any minute now some little terrorist bomber might just come in
here and blow up this entire joint, and then no one’s going to have
to worry about me.” Kiki slurred this kiss-off after her delirious
rendition of Suicidal...
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Puppet Love: Documenting Ventriloquism in Nina Conti's Her Master's Voice
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of 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...
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The Mysteries of Voice: Love and Transnational Identification in Performing the Border, The Price of Sex , and Señorita extraviada
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
...
(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...
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Sentimental Activism as Queer-Feminist Documentary Practice; or, How to Make Love in a Room Full of People
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 41–69.
Published: 01 September 2019
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in Reading Border through Desire: Queer Indigenous Theory, Nordic Settler Colonialism, and Trans Aesthetics
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1. Vore (Eero Milonoff, left ) and Tina (Eva Melander) falling in love. Gräns ( Border , dir. Ali Abbasi, Sweden, 2018). Used with permission from Nadim Carlsen
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Love Is Elsewhere: Neoliberalism and the Tourist Romance
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 66–89.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Koel Banerjee Abstract Focusing on Eat Pray Love (dir. Ryan Murphy, US, 2010) and Ticket to Paradise (dir. Ol Parker, UK/Japan/US, 2022), this article telescopes over a decade of the tourist romance genre. It examines the ideological impact of the tourist romance's happy resolutions and argues...
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in Love Is Elsewhere: Neoliberalism and the Tourist Romance
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2025
Figure 1. A view from above. Eat Pray Love (dir. Ryan Murphy, US, 2010)
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Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 215–234.
Published: 01 September 1985
...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...
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Teutonic Water: Effervescent Otherness in Doris Dörrie's Nobody Loves Me
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 177–201.
Published: 01 September 2000
... is coediting a volume on German popular film with Randall Halle. 06-McCarthy 176-201=26pgs 1/25/01 1:48 PM Page 176
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Teutonic Water: Effervescent
Otherness in Doris Dörrie’s
Nobody Loves Me...
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