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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 112–132.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Lynne Kirby Railroad Raiders (J. P. McGowan, 1917)
Male Hysteria and Early Cinema
Lynne Kirby
Cinema as we know it, as an institution, as an entertainment based
on the mass spectatorship of projected moving images, was born in
1895, in the Golden Age of railway travel...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 30–67.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Kaja Silverman Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (Mantegna)
Masochism and Male Subjectivity
Kaja Silverman
Perversion: Turning aside from truth or right; diversion to an improper
use...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 4–5.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Constance Penley; Sharon Willis Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Editorial: Male Trouble
The title of this special issue is meant to suggest not so much a con-
temporary “crisis” of manhood (men in trouble) but rather that the
idea of masculinity itself...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 101–124.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Thomas DiPiero Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Responses to “Male Trouble”
The Patriarch is Not (Just) a Man
Thomas DiPiero
I have always been curious-and, I must admit, a little bit anxious-
to read about men’s desires. Curious, because...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 296–320.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Amelia Jones Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Presumed Innocent (1990)
“She Was Bad News”: Male Paranoia and the
Contemporary New Woman
Amelia Jones
“She was bad news . . .” In Presumed Innocent (1990), this phrase
seems intended to vindicate...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 41–72.
Published: 01 September 1991
....” Time 24 Aug. 1953 : 51 –58. Fletcher , John “Versions of Masquerade.” Screen 29.3 (Summer 1988 ): 43 –69. Foster , Alasdair Behold the Man: The Male Nude in Photography . Edinburgh: Sills Gallery, 1988 . Frank , Lawrence K. “How Much Do We Know About Men?” Look 17 May...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 8–40.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Rey Chow Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991
Male Narcissism and National Culture:
Subjectivity in Chen Kaige’s King of the Children
Rey Chow
I: The Detour
. . . how many [teachers] (the majority) do...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 5–31.
Published: 01 May 2014
... centered on the figure of a male sojourner who travels to undertake humanitarian work. These films confuse the categories of popular cinema and art cinema, fueling the divergent appraisals of Bier's oeuvre. The author argues that the films deploy the popular and gendered dimensions of melodrama in ways...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 146–150.
Published: 01 May 2008
... at the Movies (2004) and Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America (2006). Vincent Price and Me:
Imagining the Queer Male Diva
Harry M. Benshoff
I do not know when I first became aware of Vincent Price, but
by the age of ten I had developed an intense fixation on him...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 157–187.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., passion, and nostalgia. Currently, she is writing about a subset of films made in the 1990s that she terms “male anxiety films.” Nicholas Cage in 8MM (dir. Joel Schumacher,
US/Germany, 1999)
Taking It Personally:
Male Suffering in 8MM
Pat Gill
Male suffering is nothing new to films...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 47–73.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... Frank Darabont, US, 1994)
Diva Traffic and Male Bonding
in Film: Teaching Opera,
Learning Gender, Race, and Nation
Charles I. Nero
In the influential Between Men, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick points to
“male homosocial desire” as the potentially erotic “continuum
between homosocial...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 103–139.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Boaz Hagin The article examines the trope of the crying male in contemporary Israeli fiction films as it appears near the end of the 2004 feature film Walk on Water , written by Gal Uchovsky and directed by Eytan Fox. It suggests, employing various accounts of crying, melodrama, and performative...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 57–81.
Published: 01 May 2018
... the film sound theorist Michel Chion calls the acousmêtre , or the acousmatic voice. By bringing together Chion, Lacan, and feminist film theory, the article analyzes the acousmatization of the male voice in Gabbeh (dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran/France, 1996) and Banoo-ye ordibehesht ( The May Lady , dir...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 97–129.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Scott Balcerzak Known as the Sons of the Desert, the official Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appreciation society is unique in that its very structures lampoon the rank-and-file maleness promoted by “legitimate” fraternal orders such as the Freemasons. To understand the comedy duo's lasting cultural...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 65–93.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Ariane Cruz Reading Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape and the dialogue surrounding it as a most fecund site for the collaborative laboring of black male sexuality, authenticity, and spectatorship, this article reveals the constitutive relationship between authenticity and spectatorship in the production...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 146–153.
Published: 01 December 2011
... reveals her attempts to fit into the male-dominated business of film directing by distancing herself from gender issues, while simultaneously aligning herself with traditionally male-identified traits, such as toughness and the desire for control. Articles appearing during this time also routinely mention...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and personally productive, offering nostalgic alternatives to both the gay cultural attachment to masculinity and the powerful historical narratives about the inherent abjection of queerness at midcentury. However, even as Infamous exposes, celebrates, and aestheticizes Capote’s effeminacy and the male...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 161–183.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Ewan Kirkland This article explores construction and representation of masculinity in the “survival horror” video-game series Silent Hill . Noting the dominance of traditional male characters and masculine themes within the video-game medium, the Silent Hill franchise is seen as deviating from...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., in the words of Judith Butler, as “ungrievable and unacknowledged losses.” Same-sex desire becomes “an affair to forget.” In the bromance Superbad (dir. Greg Mottola, US, 2007), however, homosexual possibility comes to the fore, so that melancholia actually turns into mourning for the lost male object...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 115–147.
Published: 01 May 2022
... enjoyment. On the narrative level, the capitalist‐patriarchal discourse is incarnated in double complementary figures, both male and female. The male couple consists of a traditional fatherly moralizing figure and a modern mute solipsist, who is also a sexual predator. The female one is constructed out...
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