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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2012
... projected through mobile exhibition on city buildings, and Eli Rezik's online “web-movies” Living Alone without Me (Palestine, 2011) and Between Us Two (Palestine, 2011) compelled a panel discussion of alternative means of distribution and exhibition. Finally, Alaa AbuAsad's Masturbate bil beit (Palestine...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 63–93.
Published: 01 December 2011
... performance artwork? And what is the specific cartography of pleasure associated with reenactment from docu- mentation? In Sprinkle’s 1981 film Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle (US), masturbation appears as an activity in which the phenomenon of spectatorship and the performance of pleasure become blurred...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 30–59.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... © 2020 by Camera Obscura 2020 ecosexuality environmental justice masturbation Pornhub pornography queer Figure 1. Pornhub s Arbor Day 2014 Celebratory Tree Counter Nature is so full of sensual delights. It s so erotic. It s so beautiful. It s so fulfilling. There s so much pleasure...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 92–122.
Published: 01 January 1996
... focuses relentlessly on the ordinary. He shows a wife masturbating, her husband painting a chair, the family watching television. The result is not a cinema verite minimalism, but an explosion of meaning. Godard allows us to see that even the most routine household activities and bodily functions...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 29–67.
Published: 01 May 2010
... the most damning photos of the whole fiasco: those of the naked human pyramid and of the forced masturbation taken on the night of 7 November 2003. Morris orchestrates the narration of this event through the familiar, digitally white-framed photos, but also in a grisly video, itself...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 150–176.
Published: 01 May 1992
... would admit to experiencing sex- ual pleasure through masturbation either. Full membership in the assigned gender was conferred by orgasm, real or faked, accom- plished through heterosexual ~enetrationWringing the turkey’s neck,” the ritual of penile masturbation just before surgery...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 115–147.
Published: 01 December 2002
... the “straight” theater, where the only women to be seen are on-screen, male patrons cruise from aisle to aisle. A variety of sexual encounters take place: mutual masturbation, oral sex, what have you. On one particu- larly memorable occasion, my friend said, a man walked down the aisle toward the front...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 1–21.
Published: 01 December 2004
... in the scene in which the narrator, Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale), is discovered masturbating to glam-rock music by his horrified parents and subjected to the extreme humiliation occasioned by his father’s ferocious moralistic response. Far from Heaven, in its positioning of Cathy Whitaker, the perfect...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., mostly by means of masturbation.21 Amateur contributors mail in their submissions and the Beautiful Agony staff selects which entries appear on the site. The submission guidelines are minimal but 170  •  Camera Obscura key: the frame must be focused on the face of the contributor...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 76–87.
Published: 01 September 1991
... chose to organize them as “neutrally” as possible. Thus I followed a basic chronology, starting with French pornographic da- guerreotypes of masturbation, lesbian sex, “exhibitionism,” hetero- sexual sex, nude tire changing, and even reading (the woman reading, although...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 92–111.
Published: 01 May 1992
... in late 1991, for in July of that year, Paul Reubens-“Pee-wee Herman” of television and movie fame-was arrested at a Sarasota, Florida, adult movie theater for allegedly masturbating in view of several undercover police officers, and the ensuing media coverage was widespread and intensive...
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 237–244.
Published: 01 May 1979
... no longer enough to make the ontological affirmation “I am a woman.” Women were not necessarily less ob- sessed with power and more inspired by love and generosity than men. It got boring to read repeated accounts of how terrific it was to make love with other women, to masturbate, to have...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 175–185.
Published: 01 May 2016
... intertwine with Zhang’s recording of her own performance, completing a self-­examining picture of three generations of women who grew up in different historical con- texts. From puberty and sexual awakening (including menstrua- tion, masturbation, birth control) to love and marriage (including dating...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2021
... was drawing before I could speak”—and she was masturbating. The two experiences are linked in her telling, as the experience of an unassimilable, sacred ground, of “truth”: “By the time the culture moved in to try to get the pencil out of my hand and my hand off my body, it was too late. I knew where...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 81–109.
Published: 01 December 2008
...- tion.”3 Provocatively, Pincus-Witten offers no further insight into this connection between masturbation and lesbianism, or between sexuality and politics. During this period, Benglis’s relationship to the women’s movement was an intentionally ambivalent one. She never partici- pated...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 145–171.
Published: 01 September 2023
... with no surprises, the program might suggest “Win Some, Lose Some,” which directs the woman to curl up with a good book and leave sex for another night or “The Eyes Have It,” which instructs the man to pretend he is alone and look at pornography and masturbate in proximity to his partner who would presumably watch...
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 118–145.
Published: 01 May 2025
... to her rebuttals. The actress's reasonable protests are sidelined in favor of the more prominent dialogical volume afforded Sam's musings. We also directly see Sam using women exclusively to fuel his conspiracy theorizing when he masturbates, listening to a song backwards while darting his gaze around...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of sexual endurance, to a form of attenuated castration, to menstrual envy, to a substitute for human sacrifice.”33 As a hygienic measure, circumcision was believed to increase capacity for cleanliness and to discourage masturbation by desensitizing the penis. Simultaneously, medical discourse...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
Published: 01 September 2013
...- erosexual genital penetration, homosexual anal sex, fellatio, cun- nilingus, and masturbation.” Yet she also observes different modes of representation in the two reels of Christmas: “Reel A, for instance, privileges corporeal fragments much more than reel B, which is dominated by images...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
... by the phone call — namely, an announcement that is about birth and also is giving birth to the sentimentalized comedy of the traditional rom-com.­ While Ben and Alison talk, the guys tease him by miming sexual activity — masturbating, giving one another blow jobs, and so forth. This activity operates...