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Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Audience, The Hays Office and Saturday Matinees
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 90–107.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Richard deCordova Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990
Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child
Audience, the Hays Office and Saturday Matinees
Richard deCordova
Everybody is talking about the movies, about
what...
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Editorial
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 4–7.
Published: 01 May 1990
... of desire.
Richard decordova’s “Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Au-
6 dience, The Hays Office and Saturday Matinees” deals with the largely
ignored topic of children spectators. Taking up the postcolonial critique
of ethnography, deCordova claims that current ethnographic...
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“Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn?” Film as a Vehicle of Sensual Education
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 75–117.
Published: 01 September 2010
... with audiences.9 Despite
her critical disfavor, trade journals noted that an “Elinor Glyn film”
was a reliable hit with the “matinee audience” (middle-class women
shoppers).10 Although Morey argues against a distinctive “Elinor
Glyn touch,” I contend that this “Glyn touch” does appear specifi...
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Index to camera obscura /l9, 20–21 (volume 7); 22, 23, 24 (volume 8); and 25–26, 27 (volume 9)
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 179–187.
Published: 01 September 1991
...
Response to Questionnaire on “The Female Spectator.” No. 20-21; pp,
137-141.
decordova, Richard
Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Audience, the Hays Office and
Saturday Matinees. No. 23; pp. 91-107.
DiPiero, Thomas
The Patriarch is Not (Just) a Man. No. 25-26; pp. 101-124...
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Televisual Fears and Warrior Myths: Mary Kelly Meets Dawn Dedeaux
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 124–160.
Published: 01 September 1993
... found a strange
partner in the culture of television and the Hollywood world of cow-
boys and Chicago-style gangsters-and its matinee John Wayne and
Rambo idols. Somehow this strange mutation has created the urban
warrior.” To display such a “mutation,” Soul Shadows features a series
of video...
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Chantal Akerman and the Cinéfille
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
Published: 01 May 2023
... clamor, sounds that we understand emanate from the soundtrack of the movie the girl is watching. Michèle (Circé Lethem) is taking in a matinée. She has skipped school for the day, but she returns to the school gates at break times to meet her best friend, Danielle (Joëlle Marlier). Soon the close-up...
FIGURES
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Feminism on Lifetime: Yuppie TV for the Nineties
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 132–145.
Published: 01 May 1994
... broadcast on network prime time during the 1980s as
women’s matinee pictures for the 1990s. By re-airing most of the
major networks’ social-problem films from the previous decade, Life-
time explicitly recodes these films (whose audience was always pre-
dominantly...
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Adventures of Goldilocks: Spectatorship, Consumerism and Public Life
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 50–72.
Published: 01 January 1990
... to
men in the direct manner of popular prize fights (although Corbett’s
previous career as a matinee idol complicates already that assumption),
but surely not in the indirect manner that structurally “masculinizes”
the spectator position of classical cinema. Nor was the film...
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Swimming Pools, Movie Stars: The Celebrity Body in the Post-War Marketplace
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 4–28.
Published: 01 May 1996
... successful (if somewhat limited) careers as matinee idols, and
during the silent era, Australian Annette Kellerman (the original "movie
mermaid") enjoyed a brief career as a swimming star. Williams' immediate
onscreen predecessor, however, was Sonja Henie who made six films for
Twentieth...
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Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and means of racial formation in the larger geopolitical context of the period. To briefly recap: Hayakawa achieved international star status almost immediately following the release of The Cheat in 1915 and became one of the most celebrated matinee idols in the 1910s. His magnetic performance...
FIGURES
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Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and Serial Drama, 1946–1970
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 203–225.
Published: 01 January 1988
... Magazine.
3. Faith Baldwin's Theater ofRomance. ABC; January 1951-0ctober 1951. The
series was broadcast live but might still exist in kinescope. The title indicates
its orientation.
4. Matinee Theater. NBC; October 1955-June 1958. These were live, daily dra...
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Whatever Happened to Janet Wood? Women Story Editors in 1950s Television
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 127–155.
Published: 01 December 2019
... assistant at the Theatre Guild before going to work as a script editor on The Ford Theatre Hour (CBS, 1948 51) as well as a writer for NBC Matinee Theater (1955 58) and Studio One (CBS, 1948 58).31 Audrey Gellen Maas and Jacqueline Babbin worked together as script editors for David Susskind at Talent...
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Beyond the Gaze: Visual Fascination and the Feminine Image in Silent Hitchcock
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 77–111.
Published: 01 May 2004
... interviews, Hitchcock discusses the commercial
pressure he was under to produce the Lodger’s innocence: “Ivor
Novello, the leading man, was a matinee idol in England. He was
a very big name at the time. These are problems we face with the
star system. Very often the story line...
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Cinemactivism: Film Reform, Spectatorship, and the Cleveland Cinema Club
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 33–65.
Published: 01 December 2013
... picture production, including efforts to establish junior
matinees and family nights, preview films, and create lists of better
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films. All of these practices, Gilman contends, were defeated by the
larger problem of consolidated...
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Lena Horne's Impersona
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 11–45.
Published: 01 May 2008
... afternoon
climbing on to a revolving stage about to be transported by it before a
matinee audience in a theater-in-the-round. There was nothing terribly
glamorous about that huge, coldly modern place and the atmosphere
was not really right, I thought, for my kind of performance. But I went...
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Innovating Women's Television in Local and National Networks: Ruth Lyons and Arlene Francis
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 31–69.
Published: 01 December 2002
....
As her career advanced, Lyons hosted a number of popu-
lar programs for Crosley, including WLW Consumers’ Foundation,
where two hundred women tested products to be advertised on
radio; Morning Matinee, an audience-participation show with music,
talk, and games; and the game show Collect Calls from...
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In the Twilight of Modernity and the Silent Film: Irie Takako in The Water Magician
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 91–127.
Published: 01 December 2005
... If Shiraito sacrifices herself, it is a gift precisely
in Marcel Mauss’s sense. Her gift imposes an obligation on Kin’ya,
which he must reciprocate by any means. The legendary matinee
idol Okada Tokihiko’s acting sensitively conveys Kin’ya’s painful
awareness of this exchange.
However, I would...
