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Disputed Territories: Masculinity and Social Space
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 4–23.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Sharon Willis Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 To Live nnd Die in LA. (William Friedkin, 1985)
Disputed Territories: Masculinity and Social Space
Sharon Willis
A cop stealthily enters the tract house bedroom of his occasional lover,
a young blond woman...
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Melodrama, Masculinity, and the Family: thirtysomething as Therapy
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 86–107.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Sasha Torres Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989
Melodrama, Masculinity and the Family:
thirtysomething as Therapy
Sasha Torres
I. Genre and Gender
In an interview with The New York Times, Edward Zwick, one of the
producers and creators of ABC’s...
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Joan Crawford's Padded Shoulders: Female Masculinity in Mildred Pierce
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2006
... in Postwar America and Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity . He is also the editor, with Stephen Valocchi, of Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader . He is currently writing a book about gender and sexual mobility in Cold War Hollywood cinema. Joan Crawford...
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Masculinity in Video Games: The Gendered Gameplay of Silent Hill
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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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“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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Masquerading As the American Male in the Fifties: Picnic , William Holden and the Spectacle of Masculinity in Hollywood Film
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 41–72.
Published: 01 September 1991
... Institute, 1979 . Easthope , Antony What a Man's Gotta Do: The Masculine Myth in Popular Culture . London: Paladin, 1986 . Ehrenreich , Barbara The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment . New York: Anchor Press, 1983 . Ehrenreich , Barbara “5,940 Women...
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Peter (A Young English Girl) : Visualizing Transgender Masculinities
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 1–45.
Published: 01 September 2004
... was transgender identities and modernism. Figure 1. Romaine Brooks, Una, Lady Troubridge (1924).
Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the
Artist
Peter (A Young English Girl) :
Visualizing Transgender
Masculinities
Melanie Taylor
“To be myself . . . I need...
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Muscles and Subjectivity: A Short History of the Masculine Body in Hong Kong Popular Culture
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 104–125.
Published: 01 September 1996
...Kwai-Cheung Lo Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996
Muscles and Subjectivity: A Short History
of the Masculine Body in Hong Kong
Popular Culture
Kwai-Cheung La
About a year ago, watching David Letterman's Late Show on CBS, I
was surprised to find...
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Trauma, Shame, and Men's Tears in The Manchurian Candidate
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the representation of masculine traumatic symptoms in both Richard Condon's 1959 novel and Frankenheimer's cinematic adaptation of it. In a period of national shame about the unwon Korean conflict, Frankenheimer first feminizes his protagonists by rendering them hysterical, and then allows them to redeem themselves...
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“The Hard Shining Brightness of You”: Witnessing the Assumption of a Body in George Cukor's A Woman's Face
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 55–87.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of masculinity. Not only does A Woman's Face anticipate displays that, as in Mildred Pierce , register challenges to normative gender and sexual identities, but it also exceeds them in range and degree. Cukor's tale of Anna Holm (Crawford), whose facial scarring codes her as a marginal figure, spawns an image...
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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
...Ewan Kirkland The recent generation of My Little Pony has received popular and academic attention due to its visible following of young male enthusiasts. This article explores this so-called Brony phenomenon in terms of gender and age, cult spectator practices, fandom, masculinities, and the kinds...
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The Black Visual Experience: Hendrix, Porn, and Authenticity
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 65–93.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and the multiplicity of gazes at play in the making of this authenticity. Specifically, the tape illuminates the reflexive constitution of an authentic black masculinity via the white female gaze while further revealing pornography's investment in the imaging and imagining of a genuine black masculinity as being still...
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“Jackie Treehorn Treats Objects Like Women!”: Two Types of Fetishism in The Big Lebowski
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 111–135.
Published: 01 December 2008
... but then rewritten, as Jeff Bridge's “Dude” comes to abjure both the imaginary and the symbolic dimensions of paternity in favor of more material and yet less oppressive and monolithic construals of paternity and masculinity. Third, I examine the consequences of the Dude's refusal of phallic mastery for the viewer...
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Laurel and Hardy Queer the Fraternity: The Comedy Duo and Heterosexual Brotherhood in Sons of the Desert
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 97–129.
Published: 01 May 2010
... masculine performance space was challenged both by the development of a clearer heterosexual/homosexual cultural binary and by the instability of patriarchal structures during the first half of the twentieth century. As such, a queering of fraternity materializes in many Laurel and Hardy films...
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Making Electricity: Narrating Gender, Sexuality, and the Neoliberal Transition in Billy Elliot
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
... with challenges to gender and sexual normativity, specifically, to the masculinity of the working-class miners. But this is made possible through the film's problematic and schematic treatment of history, since it suppresses any consciousness of the solidarities with the miners that were formed, or attempted...
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Bollywood in Drag: Moulin Rouge! and the Aesthetics of Global Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 29–67.
Published: 01 December 2011
... cinema, while the love-addicted hero Christian relies on the sentimental codes of Bollywood masculinity. Our task in this article is to archive these less-visible debts and to query the logic of the absent/present form that Bollywood takes in this film, appearing as style but remaining obscure...
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(Mis)Imagining Africa in the New Millennium: The Constant Gardener and Blood Diamond
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 69–99.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., neither of the films manages to evade the racism that dominated cinematic portrayals of Africa in the previous century. Both films model their central characters on archetypes and imagine an Africa in which whiteness is normative and in which white masculinity connotes agency. Narrative and cinematography...
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“They Can't Do This to Us !”: Alan Alda as (Anti)Feminist Signifier
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 35–61.
Published: 01 December 2011
... has become a culturally accepted shorthand for weak and failed masculinity. Putting these two elements into discussion, this history of Alda's politics and stardom suggests that his efforts toward equality may have always had more in common with “men's movement” philosophies than with breaking down...
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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
...-director Johnson and producer Darryl F. Zanuck's eventual taming of Jones's power on the set mirrored the script's struggles between Betsy and her husband. But an analysis of the film and its production contexts also highlights the consequences of creating a masculine melodrama in a system that depended...
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Gender and the Art of Benshi : In Dialogue with Midori Sawato
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2011
... to decipher in detail. Finally, the way in which the art of benshi is an act of radical gender-bending is examined. By performing the voices of heroes and villains, Sawato expresses and embodies masculinity that gives her a tremendous sense of catharsis and empowerment. Akiko Mizoguchi teaches visual...
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