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Smokin' Tokens: thirtysomething and TV's Queer Dilemma
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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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The Many Lives of Mr. Yunioshi:: Yellowface and the Queer Buzz of Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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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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Devouring the Diva: Martyrdom as Feminist Backlash in The Rose
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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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Schneemann Sounding: Embodied Sonic Systems
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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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A Blustery Day for a Baby: Technologies of Family Formation in Twister
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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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Books Received
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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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Hitchcock's Secret Agency
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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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Archiving Feeling in Yvonne Rainer's Journeys from Berlin/1971
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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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Stripping on the Girl Channel: Lifetime, thirtysomething , and Television Form
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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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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
... 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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An Affair to Forget: Melancholia in Bromantic Comedy
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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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Collectivity in (Stop-)Motion: Lift Animation, Lantern Software, and the Making of Community
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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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Melodrama, Masculinity, and the Family: thirtysomething as Therapy
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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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Agnès Varda and Le Collectif 50/50 en 2020: Power and Protest at the Cannes Film Festival
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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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Rape and War, Gender and Nation, Victims and Victimizers: Helke Sander's BeFreier und Befreite
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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
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Putting Things to the Test: Reconsidering Portrait of Jason
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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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Comic Relief: The Andy Griffith Show , White Southern Sheriffs, and Regional Rehabilitation
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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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Notes on Digital Community and Revolution
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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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By Any Other Name: Sweet Justice , Cicely Tyson, and Contemporary Visual Politics
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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...
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