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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 29–55.
Published: 01 May 2018
... manifest as unreadable noise, interventions on the print page that produce a technological feminine. Situated alongside ANT (actor-network theory), media theory, and cyborg feminism, the technological feminine gestures at the limits of these attempts to de–black box media, insisting on an irreducible noise...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of California, Santa Barbara, with a PhD in film and media studies and an emphasis in feminist studies. Their work on technology, sexuality, feminism, and film theory has appeared in Porn Studies, New Review of Film and Media Studies, Mediascape, Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 131–159.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Julie Levin Russo This article returns to Sigmund Freud's and Jacques Lacan's theories of scopophilia to intervene in a pessimistic thread of new media criticism. By complicating doomsday scenarios, it unpacks the complexities of exhibitionism iterated as online self-display, including aspects...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2020
... “Silence = Death” relies and yields a rethinking of media history and sound studies as they relate to queer lives. Copyright © 2020 Camera Obscura 2020 duration and identity queerness and queer theory sound and sonic technologies vocality and voice American popular music I visited Vito...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of the changes that have taken place in the field — namely, the rise of queer theory. Indeed, queer theorists may be drawn to film and media, as is evident in a wide range of key works, precisely because film and media are (figurations of) queer theory. One key thinker who understood this early...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 67–107.
Published: 01 May 2009
... in the same era. The reconfiguration of privacy is also linked to how race, gender, and class are articulated visually in nineteenth-century media culture. Thus drawing on histories of photography and consumerism, legal history, and cultural theory, as well as on the visual archive of the original Aunt Jemima...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., these two products offer rich sites for exploring the particular challenges designers and marketers face in attracting female youth to media production. Grounding this study is Ellen van Oost's theory of “gender scripts,” the discourses of gender that designers encode into consumer goods based...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 149–175.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of these multiple provisional pasts, presents, and futures. The article points toward the way that narrative and theories of collective storytelling can be used as frameworks for understanding social media platforms. amecklen@umich.edu Copyright © 2022 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 147–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and media studies at Swarthmore College, she is the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability , the coauthor of The Film Experience , and the coeditor of Critical Visions in Film Theory . Her book on contemporary global women's filmmaking is forthcoming from Duke...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 5–27.
Published: 01 December 1989
... to mark
out new terrain. Feminist media theory has not developed in a vacuum.
In a way, it is particularly tempting to write a history of feminist
theory -precisely because it is feminist -which stresses or even implies
“progress.” Yet, it is important to acknowledge that, even and perhaps...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 171–179.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of digital technology. All of the alt- right figures, misogynist tech bros, proliferators of horrific working conditions, and masculinists with universalizing but also miniature theories of media recognize the technological as a form of power. In fact, they seem to have a good handle on the medium...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
... spaces and aesthetics for producing collective memory that differently configure spectatorial interaction and social intervention. Counterposing the hyperindustrialized military vision of the fictional reality TV show Drones with the social media–styled memory market TruNode, the film’s caricature...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2021
... especially) as irrelevant and passé, syndicated programs are neither of those things if their continued popularity assures our familiarity with them. As a text, Bewitched is already supple enough to motivate two politically opposing media brands to pick it up, but the context of each of these channels’ flow...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2016
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Three Women (dir. Zhang Mengqi, China, 2010) collaboration media collective transnational media activism technology feminist and queer theory ...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and places. © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. collaboration media collective transnational media activism technology feminist and queer theory Collectivity: Part 1...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 94–100.
Published: 01 December 1989
... that
shows how historiographical issues may be productively addressed.
I think that the most interesting work that combines historiography
and film/media theory is just beginning, and it is with that understand-
ing that I agree with those who feel that the study of the female spectator
is also...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
...-
tion Vidéo, Isis Collective, Reelfeelings Collective, Women’s Media
Collective, and Women Artists in Video, as well as using autoethno-
graphic and scholarly research, I argue for the use of affect theory
as a different way to do and undo feminist media history. Affect
theory, with its emphasis...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 191–202.
Published: 01 January 1988
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for entertainment is often seen in media theory as something simple, noth•
ing more than an interest artificially created by the media. For Ang, the
complexity of desire belies any understanding of culture as "mere enter•
tainment." Desire would be that force which has not one function...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 65–91.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Franco “Bifo” Berardi, The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (Los
Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2012), 14.
3. Geert Lovink, “Hermes on the Hudson: Notes on Media Theory
after Snowden,” e-flux journal, no. 54 (2014), www.e-flux.com
/journal/hermes-on-the-hudson-notes-on-media-theory...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 7–35.
Published: 01 May 2009
... essay, González addresses the limitations of seeing
technoculture as an ideal public sphere through insightful critiques
of contemporary new media theory and digital art. Starting with
the contradiction between the “desire to see online digital spaces
as sites of universal subjectivity that can...
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