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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 192–211.
Published: 01 May 1994
... characters (Russell befriends Melissa [Melanie Mayron], and Peter works with the pro- tagonists Michael and Elliot at the advertising agency DAA). Melissa very nonchalantly tells Michael (Ken Olin) that his colleague Peter is gay, and Elliot (Timothy Busfield) introduces...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Melissa Phruksachart This article studies Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) to examine the constitutive role Mickey Rooney’s yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi plays in shoring up the infamous brand of white femininity embodied by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 69–87.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Melissa Bradshaw “Devouring the Diva” explores the drives that push us to pursue, consume, and destroy the diva, arguing for a reading of the diva as a figure of feminine gendering and as a stand-in for the fetishized mother whom we ambivalently adore, mourn, and hate. Through an analysis...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 151–163.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Melissa Ragona Abstract This essay examines the central position the medium of sound played in the work of the artist Carolee Schneemann (US, 1939–2019). By exploring a few key early works such as Glass Environment for Sound and Motion (1962), Chromelodeon (1963), and Noise Bodies (1965), it traces...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 189–215.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., and a single therapist who speaks the clichéd languages of the recovery movement. That therapist, Dr. Melissa Reeves (Jami Gertz), is engaged to Bill Harding (Bill Paxton), and she accompanies him on a trip to recover his divorce papers from his estranged wife Jo Harding (Helen Hunt). On one level...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 198–199.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., 2003. Pinney, Melissa Ann. Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls. Santa Fe, NM: The Center for American Places, 2003. Prince, Stephen. Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930–1968. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 34–49.
Published: 01 May 1992
... . Knox , Melissa “Beltraffio: Henry James' Secrecy.” American Imago , 43 , 3 (Fall 1986 ): 211 —277. Martin , Robert K. The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry . Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974 . Miller , D. A. “Anal Rope.” Representations , 32 (Fall 1990...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 133–163.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Melissa Anderson, “Rainer said yes .” 11 Emboldened by the feminist movement, the author of the “No Manifesto” began to incorporate expressive content into her work. “The language of specific emotional experience,” Rainer gushes in her autobiography, “promised all the ambivalent pleasures and terrors...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 166–191.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of her parents’ decision to divorce after 40 years of marriage. In the second, Michael and Elliot do some promotional work for a conservative political candidate and Gary begins his ro- mantic involvement with Susannah. In the third, Melissa is hired to produce a photograph for the cover...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 132–145.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of Brideshead Revisited, and the well-known spot for Forever Krystle perfume based on the Dynasty characters. Commercials during the ABC thirtysomething premier had the im- ages of old money wealth (Cadillac again); a yuppie stockbroker taking Actifed; funky characters a la thirtysornethzng’s Melissa...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
... as an engagement ring to his girlfriend, Melissa, played by Rachael Harris as a shrill harpy. As the men prepare to leave Las Vegas, the stripper returns to Stu his grandmother’s “Holo- caust ring” (“I didn’t know they gave out rings at the Holocaust,” says Alan); Stu in the end decides not to give the ring...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2008
...) and as a figure of resistance (the “positive” diva). Melissa Bradshaw takes a hard look at the dynamics of divadom and reveals that The Rose (dir. Mark Rydell, US, 1979) compellingly, and troublingly, represents “the drives that push us to pursue, consume, and destroy the diva.” In tracing the film’s...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 165–173.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in Monster Theory: Reading Culture, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 7. 11. “The Story of Lift.” 12. Quoted in Melissa Seymour, “Q&A with Rachel Johnson, Director of Henrietta Bulkowski,” Fempower Q&A’s (blog), 8...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 86–107.
Published: 01 January 1989
... partner, and his wife Nancy; Michael’s unmarried childhood friend, Gary, an English professor; Hope’s unmarried childhood friend Ellen, a civil servant; and Melissa, Michael’s cousin, a photographer who is also unmarried. As opposed to MTM series like The Mary Tyler Moore Show...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 127–153.
Published: 01 May 2021
....” See the press release, Le Collectif 50/50, “Déroulé de la Table Ronde,” 14 May 2018, and Le Collectif 50/50, “Communiqué de Presse,” 12 May 2018, collectif5050.com/cannes (accessed 10 May 2020). 22. Melissa Silverstein, “Cannes Film Festival Signs Pledge in Push for Gender Parity,” Women...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 99–141.
Published: 01 May 2001
... in West German Literature and Film (1991) and Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions (coedited with Sandra Frieden, Vibeke R. Petersen, and Laurie Melissa Vogelsang, 1993). 04-McCormick.sh 5/29/01 12:39 PM Page iv 04-McCormick.sh 5/29/01 12:39 PM Page 99 Rape...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2011
...: “[The camera] makes performance inevitable, it constitutes being as performance.”20 Clarke’s critique of Leacock and Pennebaker is, first, staged through the casting of Jason as her test subject. As Melissa Ander- son notes about Jason’s performance in her analysis of the film: If one...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 125–155.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Stabile for all her help and support on this article. Also, thanks to my dissertation committee — Courtney Thorsson, Priscilla Ovalle, and Melissa Stuckey — who helped me shape, revise, and rethink the ideas in this article. Thanks to Carol Ladewig, Sarah Todd, Melissa Sexton, and Ted West...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 99–131.
Published: 01 December 2016
... account of the influence of computer science and cybernetics on the economic foundations of neoliberalism, see Philip Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). 3. See Melissa Gira Grant, “Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 49–65.
Published: 01 September 1995
... they lived. The relationship between Kate Delacroix (Melissa Gilbert) and Carrie Grace Battle (Cicely Tyson) is a study in race and class opposition. Delacroix is a young white woman, whose family is one of the wealthiest and most powerful in the state. Battle is an older...