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Cinderella Man: Russell Crowe as Il Diva
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 47–67.
Published: 01 May 2008
... regimes. South Park (Comedy Central), season 6, “The New Terrance
and Phillip Movie Trailer,” 3 April 2002. Courtesy Comedy
Central/Photofest
Cinderella Man:
Russell Crowe as Il Diva
Michael DeAngelis
Born in New Zealand in ’64
A hot-headed actor named Russell Crowe
He loves to act...
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The Organization Woman behind The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2012
...J. E. Smyth Although The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (dir. Nunnally Johnson, US, 1956) ostensibly focuses on Tom Rath (Gregory Peck), the production of the screenplay and shooting largely revolved around actress Jennifer Jones's characterization of Betsy Rath, a stay-at-home wife and mother...
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Responses to “Male Trouble”: The Patriarch is Not (Just) a Man
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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...
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in Self-Suspension in Frames: Hito Steyerl's Lovely Andrea
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 8. Inserts from Steve and Ageha's bondage performance, Spider-Man , and the Abu Ghraib picture at Tanaka Kinichi's studio. Lovely Andrea (dir. Hito Steyerl, Japan/Austria/Germany, 2007). Courtesy of the artist
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“Fat Man Walking”: Masculinity and Racial Geographies in James Mangold's Copland
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 4–29.
Published: 01 September 1999
...Rachel Adams Copyright © 1999 by Indiana University Press 1999
"Fat Man Walking": Masculinity and Racial
Geographies in James Mangold's Copland'
Rachel Adams
In Hard Bodies, Susan Jeffords argues that the Reagan era was char•
acterized by an uncommonly close...
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The Legend of the White-and-Yellow Black Man: Global Containment and Triangulated Racial Desire in Romeo Must Die
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 151–179.
Published: 01 May 2004
...James Kim Jet Li in Romeo Must Die (dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak, US, 2000)
The Legend of the White-and-Yellow
Black Man: Global Containment
and Triangulated Racial Desire
in Romeo Must Die
James Kim
How may I touch you across this chasm of flown things?
—Li-Young Lee, The Winged Seed...
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Paralysis in Motion: Jerry Lewis's Life as a Man
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 194–205.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Scott Bukatman Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 The Delicate Delinquent (Don McGuire, 1957)
Paralysis in Motion: Lewis’s Life as a Man
Scott Bu katman
Jerry Lewis: the disorderly orderly, the delicate delinquent, the ladies
man, the nutty...
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The Forgotten Man; or, How Hollywood Invented Welfare
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 74–107.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Jonathan Kahana Camera Obscura 2006 Jonathan Kahana teaches in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is completing a book on the public spheres of American documentary. William Powell as the Forgotten Man in My Man Godfrey
(dir. Gregory La Cava, US, 1936...
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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 2. Gede teaches Lily about the harmony between man, nature, and God. Ticket to Paradise (dir. Ol Parker, UK/Japan/US, 2022)
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Kathryn Bigelow: On Her Own in No-(Wo)Man's-Land
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 146–153.
Published: 01 December 2011
... as numerous articles examining the relationship between women's behind-the-scenes employment and on-screen representation. © 2011 by Camera Obscura 2011 IN practice
Kathryn Bigelow:
On Her Own in No-(Wo)Man’s- Land
Martha M. Lauzen
As high-profile film directors...
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The Twin Towers bound by Spider-Man's web, as seen in his eye's reflection....
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in Self-Suspension in Frames: Hito Steyerl's Lovely Andrea
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 5. The Twin Towers bound by Spider-Man's web, as seen in his eye's reflection. Teaser for Spider-Man (dir. Sam Raimi, US, 2002) in Lovely Andrea (dir. Hito Steyerl, Japan/Austria/Germany, 2007). Courtesy of the artist
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NOW , Chantal Akerman’s Last Work
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 67–73.
Published: 01 May 2019
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Staggering Toward Modern Times: The Video Art of Max Almy
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 3–17.
Published: 01 December 1984
...Denise Mann © 1984 by Camera Obscura 1984
Modem Sexuahty (1979)
Staggering Toward Modern Times: The Video Art
of Max Almy
DeniJe Man n
Max Almy’s video art moves from the highly personal, low-tech, black and
white multi-monitor performance piece to that of the multi-layered...
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The Spectacularization of Everyday Life: Recycling Hollywood Stars and Fans In Early Television Variety Shows
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 47–77.
Published: 01 January 1988
... themselves" (p. 420).
40. Auto-Lite Spark Plugs ad. "Which is Really Dorothy Lamour?" Look 12
(March 30, 1948), p. 15.
41. "How Has Having a Movie Star's Name Affected You?" Look 12 (March 16,
1948), pp. 14, 16.
42. Jonathan Kilbourne, "America's Man Godfrey...
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Conferences, Conventions, Conversations, and Coffee
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the assumed heteronormativity of the characters in the script as well as by not limiting who can be cast as each character: a straight white man, for instance, can find himself playing a queer woman of color. Coffee troubles the idea of the gaze in the sense of being a transparent production wherein...
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All That Glitters Isn’t Gold: Auma Obama’s Nightmare of Postunification Germany
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 75–101.
Published: 01 December 2018
... man and mother to an Afro-German daughter named Achieng. Inspired by Obama’s own experiences, a central focus of the film is the personal effects of racism on black immigrant women and the fungibility of black lives in postunification Germany where political rhetoric has contributed to an atmosphere...
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Next to Chantal Akerman: An Installation of Generations and the Shoah
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 99–111.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... Writing her personal history in images and words, Aker-man explores the meaning of Jewishness and other ethnicities threatened by death while reaching out to her mother as a daughter whose being has always been shadowed by legacy and history. The essay explores intertextual resonances of the installation...
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The Times of The Hours : Queer Melodrama and the Dilemma of Marriage
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 37–67.
Published: 01 May 2013
...), Savage Grace (dir. Tom Kalin, Spain/US/France, 2007), and A Single Man (dir. Tom Ford, US, 2009). Released at a historical conjuncture when queer debates about marriage and conjugal life are deeply polarized, these works share an ambivalent and stylized fascination with the white bourgeois family...
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Damsels Who Distress: Gender and the Acousmatic Voice in Video Games
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 63–93.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Liam Mitchell Female figures routinely appear in popular fiction as ostensibly critical correctives to masculinity who can inadvertently retrench problematic divisions between “Woman” and “Man.” In video games, these figures are often aural rather than visual; whether they are off-screen narrators...
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Revisiting Queer and Trans Representation in Junior
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 129–155.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Jon Heggestad Abstract The 1994 film Junior (dir. Ivan Reitman), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the world's first pregnant man, has been the subject of much scholarly debate since its initial release. Specifically, feminist critiques have both called attention to the film's androcentric...
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