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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 60–87.
Published: 01 December 2020
... it to the elision of gendered labor found in Stan Brakhage’s lyrical film Star Garden (US, 1974). The article charts two types of gendered labor Robertson engages in over the course of the project. First, as a document that tracks Robertson’s weight loss, a form of labor that she presents in a register...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 139–161.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Kelley Conway Chantal Akerman’s films are typically characterized as minimalist and melancholy due to her signature long takes and understated performances. Yet her films also express extraordinary lyricism and euphoria, notably through song. Amid the highly patterned narratives and the exquisitely...
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 60–71.
Published: 01 September 1983
..., does the fact that Keller (intentionally or not) "reworked" the
principles ofBrakhage or any other' 'patriarchal" filmmaker necessarily or
in itself' 'make a feminist meaning"? The film may attempt to rework or
subvert Brakhage's somewhat lyrical filming strategies but the point...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 137–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... throughout the film, it
seems fitting that a tiny three-line section should be missing.6
A subtle lyrical difference between the two halves of the
song corresponds to the microdrama that unfolds during this sec-
ond performance. The first half of the song posits certain memo-
ries (“She wore...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 74–107.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Obscura
song — disabled veterans, unemployed farmers, and out-of-work
laborers — is muted by the socially conventional difference, the
difference between woman and man, with which the lyric ends.
It is as if the lyric, like the narrative dimension of the film,
attempts to inoculate...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 219–226.
Published: 01 December 1989
... Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 regard that data from audience surveys, fan letters, oral histories and 219
non-filmic instances of representation can be a valuable, supplementary
source, helping to elaborate the web of discourses intersecting any film...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 167–177.
Published: 01 May 2017
... being
hyperlinked. These spaces of the radical political impulse, the aes-
thetic impulse, and the professional entertainment impulse oper-
ate alongside each other, as exemplified by the radical poets of
the 1950s.6 The poets wrote political poetry as well as Hindi film
lyrics, often combining...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 224–249.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Edward Baron Turk Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 I Married an Angel (W. S. Van Dyke, MGM, 1942)
Deriding the Voice of Jeanette MacDonald:
Notes on Psychoanalysis and
The American Film Musical
Edward Baron Turk
I...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and total collapse, yet poised expectantly
toward new horizons of the “everyday,” ready to arrive.
20 • Camera Obscura
Notes
1. Conner specified that the titles of his artworks and films appear
in all capital letters.
2. Antonia Christina Basilotta, “Breakaway,” music and lyrics...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 129–159.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Usha Iyer Though popular Hindi cinema is frequently identified by its song-and-dance sequences, little has been written specifically about film dance. This article analyzes film dance and female stardom in Hindi films of the late 1980s and 1990s through an examination of the star text of Madhuri...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 105–145.
Published: 01 May 2006
... the flowers herself,” a line spoken in the film by
Virginia as she begins writing her book. With its signature trans
historical lyricism, just after Virginia says this line, the film cuts
to Laura Brown, who has just started reading Mrs. Dalloway while
in bed and who repeats the first line out loud...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 139–146.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Kristina Busse; Alexis Lothian Vidding is a thirty-year-old remix practice in which predominantly female media fans reedit television or film into music videos. Vidding is important not only as an art form in its own right but also as a subcultural — and often feminist — reinterpretation...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2014
... fitness.
As Yeh observes, the film sets out to legitimize dance as a “healthy,
athletic, and kinetic art form.”26 The “I Love Cha-Cha” number
24 • Camera Obscura
that comes later in the film takes place in a high school gymnasium,
and the song’s lyrics include the lines
We merrily go...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 148–175.
Published: 01 May 1990
... the fans’
experience of watching the ch.aracters gets translated into a musical
interpretation of their thoughts. Ecklar’s “One Final Lesson” posits
depths to Savick’s personality which were never disclosed in the Par-
amount film upon which it is based. Her lyrics suggest...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 68–81.
Published: 01 May 1988
... to the
process given by the film, in which song lyrics addressed to one’s
“baby” would literally refer to a baby (“Little baby want to hold you
tight / I don’t ever want to say goodnight though retaining, of course,
the sexual charge they have gained from years of metaphoricity.’O
It becomes apparent...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
Published: 01 September 2013
...,
privileges corporeal fragments much more than reel B, which is
dominated by images of complete bodies.”22 Christmas on Earth,
while soliciting musical and lyrical accompaniment, imaginatively
undermines the conventional narrative progression of sex films.
The film, as Osterweil remarks, refuses...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 137–145.
Published: 01 September 1977
...
antithetical double, silence; the lyrical quality of the voices.
Baxter, VeraBaxter was shot and edited early in 1976, but its opening
in Paris was delayed until mid-June of this year. Duras herself has said
that in Vera Baxter 'I have regressed (it) remains a film that is exterior
to me. ' 1 In theme...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 178–183.
Published: 01 May 2008
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 29–53.
Published: 01 September 2015
... an impor-
tant twenty-first-century challenge to the relationships between
performance and performer, film and archive, and death and the
image. The lyrics of the song that ushered in the virtual Tupac’s
Coachella appearance, “Hail Mary,” suggest the performer’s eerie
implications. The song...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 105–117.
Published: 01 December 2021
... with Hammer out of chemo, freed from the hospital bed, and vigorously riding this horse on the open plains of Wyoming. In her last feature-length film, the sophisticated, lyrical documentary Welcome to This House , Hammer continues her interest in discovering lesbian lives in the archive while drawing...
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