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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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 Cinemactivism  • 53 films. All of these practices, Gilman contends, were defeated by the larger problem of consolidated...
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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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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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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...