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History Is Not a Matter of Generations: Interview with Harun Farocki
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 47–75.
Published: 01 May 2001
...
Leben—BRD [How to Live in the German Federal Republic]
(dir. Harun Farocki, Germany, 1989).
02-Halle.V2sh 5/29/01 12:34 PM Page 47
History Is Not a Matter
of Generations:
Interview with Harun Farocki
Randall...
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The Anthropocene as Cinematic View: Time, Matter, and Race in Blade Runner 2049
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Domietta Torlasco Abstract Taking Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 as a point of departure, this essay argues that cinema's stories of species survival at once hide and duplicate the racialization of matter that has marked the history of geology and, more recently, the discourse...
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Representation Matters: Tatjana Turanskyj on Women’s Filmmaking and the Pro Quote Film Movement
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 129–145.
Published: 01 December 2018
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Floating Roots: Agnès Varda's Uncle Yanco
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 9–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., Anaïs Nin, Alan Watts, and other luminaries of the San Francisco counterculture. Both Vardas were gleaners and artists. The author argues that both saw the imagination as a place where matter and spirit were reconciled. The article builds on previous work about Varda's The Gleaners and I ( Les glaneurs...
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The Politics of Third Way TV: Supernanny and the Commercialization of Public Service TV
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 65–89.
Published: 01 September 2011
... demonstrates how reality TV contributes to social governance through disciplinary discourse. Although it achieved international success as a global franchise and treated a supposedly universal subject matter, child rearing, it is at first surprising that the program was not localized for the Australian market...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
... unapproachable, sexually undefined (e.g., Is he straight? Is he gay? Or does it matter?), or even potentially dangerous. The article develops this idea via a close analysis of the films and seeks to extend this idea to an understanding of how Hollywood and the international market form a similar pattern...
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Road Movie : Notes from the Field
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 165–175.
Published: 01 September 2012
...elle flanders This piece follows the author's journey of making a film about the segregated roads in Palestine, and the ways in which queer subjectivity and radical politics inform the work we produce regardless of subject matter. Offering a counter-narrative to the Israeli government's...
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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
... visible borders in space, the film illustrates how psychoanalytically and phenomenologically informed, expansive notions of the body and perceptual field matter for understanding transgender and other forms of gender dissonance. Drawing on disability studies, queer theory, and transgender theory...
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Violence and the Gaze in Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl ( À ma sœur! )
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
Published: 01 September 2017
... misunderstood, Gelley contends, not primarily because of the transgressive nature of their subject matter but, more importantly, for the negativity and ambivalence of their critique and the way in which they reinvent the conventional cinematic language of heterosexual intimacy. Fat Girl is one instance...
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Women with Cameras: The Invention of the Selfie in the Photography of Anne Collier
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 195–207.
Published: 01 September 2019
... depict printed matter from the postmodern period that include photographs of female models posed as if they are shooting playful selfportraits in a mirror, acting as if they are themselves the photographer. Taking Collier’s work as evidence, this essay asks questions about how and why the selfie is so...
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Tactics of Tears: Excess/Erasure in the Gay Chinese Melodramas of Fleeing by Night and Lan Yu
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
... resorts to the strategy of narrative truncation and erasure to deflect the focus from melodramatic spectacle onto that of the quotidian framing of gay sexuality and its normalcy. Ideology and melodrama are implicated in the way the traditions of form constrain and mold subject matter to produce...
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Varda's Third Life
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 187–213.
Published: 01 May 2021
... up and expand on her lifelong passion for still and moving images, painting, photography, and cinema. The author also shows how Varda has rethought and reworked certain subjects that mattered to her throughout her career, by means proper to this new medium. Varda always had the gift to give us...
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No Bodies Business: Trapdoor Tactics and the Art of Transgender Disappearance in A Fantastic Woman
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 157–188.
Published: 01 May 2024
... a “disappearing act” that moves audiences beyond the flesh and into the heart of the matter: the internal depths of transgender fantasy and feeling. Aesthetically articulated, this trans cension progresses from the private visions of the film's protagonist, Marina, to an acute emphasis on sound as well as surface...
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Pandemic Stasis and Nonlinear Memory in Palestinian Short Films
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 165–186.
Published: 01 September 2024
...) by Maha Haj (Palestine, 2020), the lockdown stimulated a collision between the past and the present with ongoing, and at times increased, restrictions on movement and memory work in the West Bank. In each piece, the unhomely is presented uniquely, but the subject matter — memory, the occupation...
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Personal Film/Feminist Film
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 60–71.
Published: 01 September 1983
... debt to Brakhage
-in her self-referential subject matter and unconventional filming strate•
gies, and particularly in making a "birth" film (Misconception, 1977)
which begs comparison with Brakhagc's Window Water Baby Moving.
But Taubin is primarily interested in arguing for the strength...
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Subject to Change: The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster and Other Post-humanist Critiques of the Instrumental
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 63–101.
Published: 01 December 2006
... of materialization not
only intervenes in a continued instrumentalization of matter but
also enables one to contest the instrumentalization of subjects
aligned or conflated with an objectified, passive, inert, and form-
less matter. It reveals new possibilities for, and the necessity of,
contesting...
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The Fold of Undetectable
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 167–173.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of matter can be
conceived as a garden full of plants and as a pond full of fish. But
each branch of a plant, each limb of an animal, each drop of its
humors, is still another such garden or pond.”4
There are two curious things to note in this passage. First,
Leibniz says matter can...
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Endangered Humans?: Wired Bodies and the Human Wilds in Carnosaur, Carnosaur 2 , and 12 Monkeys
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 226–242.
Published: 01 May 1997
... flights from bodies,
animals, and matter. Carnosaur 2, for example, dramatizes the re-
entrenchment of the humanist subject through a traditional quest to
dominate nature, yet this transcendent subject is formed only by de-
flecting destabilizing forces onto abject...
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Camera Obscura Questionnaire on Alternative Film Distribution
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 157–175.
Published: 01 May 1979
... films for distribution?
158 C. Do you see your company as a political force? How does this
govern the choice of films you distribute?
D. How many films are there in your collection?
E. What is the range of subject matter in your collection? Do you
have...
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The Leaves Are Stirring (1948)
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 59–67.
Published: 01 December 2022
... details that reveal the document's age, such as the quality of the film stock, or the presence or absence of a particular technical feature of a given period. But the truth of the matter is quite the opposite. As Fernand Léger put it, each era has its own realism, and at a remove of twenty years...
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