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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 112–137.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Thomas DiPiero Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 White Men Can’tJump (Ron Shelton, 1992)
White Men Aren’t
Thomas DiPiero
There is a quite memorable passage in James Baldwin’s novel Just
Above My Head in which Hall Montana, a young African American
who manages...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 73–109.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Zahid R. Chaudhary This article aims for an account of materiality that helps apprehend race as a material reality while attending to its semiotic, aesthetic, and cultural signification. Through a close reading of Alfonso Cuarón's film, Children of Men (UK, 2006), the author argues that allegory...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 206–214.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Bruce Robbins Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Men in Feminism
Bruce Robbins
Men in Feminism, Alice Jardine and Paul Smith, eds., New York
and London: Methuen, 1987
A number of women have declined to review this book. I think I can
understand...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 68–81.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Tania Modleski Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988
Three Men and Baby M
Tania Modleski
While some of the films in the current boom of baby boom movies
suggest that woman’s primary role is to be a mother, others show men
taking over this role...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 4–25.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Erin Addison Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 Aladdin (Walt Disney Pictures, 1992). 0 The Walt Disney Company.
All rights reserved.
Saving Other Women from Other Men:
Disney’s Aladdin
Erin Addison
In academic writing...
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in The Reserve Army of Affectivity: Unemployed Labor in William Greaves's Psychodramatic Cinéma Vérité
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. The title of In the Company of Men (dir. William Greaves, US, 1969) appears over the frozen face of Charles Darby. Image courtesy of Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 27–55.
Published: 01 September 2003
... and filmmakers have depicted transformations in the meaning of public, paid work since World War II. Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis in Unbreakable
(dir. M. Night Shyamalan, US, 2000)
Hoodoo Economics: White Men’s
Work and Black Men’s Magic
in Contemporary American Film
Heather J. Hicks...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2017
...
Manchurian Candidate (US, 1962). Courtesy of MGM Media
Licensing
Trauma, Shame, and
Men’s Tears in
The Manchurian Candidate
Joy McEntee
In John Frankenheimer’s film The Manchurian Candidate (US,
1962), a company of US soldiers is captured and brainwashed.
Often discussed...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the possibility for her figure
to possess an eroticism that exceeds a maternal role. Rudy Cox
creates an erotic fantasy of Jasmin that allows women (and men)
to cast a desiring gaze on her. In terms of Hollywood, this gaze is
05-Mennel&Onigiri 150-175=26pgs 1/25...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 127–155.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Kristen Hatch This essay explores the role that men played — as costars and fans — in Shirley Temple's film career, arguing that Temple's stardom stood at the juncture of two paradigms. It was built upon the fairly stable understanding that male child loving signified men's discipline and restraint...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Figure 1. The title of In the Company of Men (dir. William Greaves, US, 1969) appears over the frozen face of Charles Darby. Image courtesy of Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive ...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 103–139.
Published: 01 September 2008
... speech, that the surge of weeping men in recent Israeli films–men who discuss their inability to cry or to stop crying, who parade their tears–might be read as an attempt by Israeli mainstream entertainment to deal with Israeli society's infatuation with victimhood and its tendency to conflate identity...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and multilayered network of mutual dependency and interactive/interpassive reconfigurations. The article asks in what ways the Twilight films construct or imagine their targeted audience — teenage girls, Twilight moms, and gay men — and how such desires are then consumed, multiplied, and circulated on textual...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of participatory culture with which the new series is associated. Despite the apparent transgression of men enjoying a television show clearly coded as being for young girls, the article argues that Brony practices reproduce many male-centered aspects of fan media consumption in a manner that recuperates...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2018
... production. Although Turkish film producers first adapted European exploitation films (particularly Italian erotic comedies), in time they created a trashy and irregular film practice addressing the specific needs of its assumed audience: young, unemployed, underclass men with rural backgrounds. The article...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 137–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... as a strategy for the containment of desire, since desire itself is already constituted through imitation. In other words, one cannot fail to become—if only in a partial, incomplete way—what one imitates. Frank's “becoming gay” would appear to drive his violent acting out against men, women, and music...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 161–183.
Published: 01 September 2009
... this assured, aggressive, and unexamined machismo. The series' protagonists are instead nondescript, flawed, domesticated men—unstable, angst-ridden, and unreliable in a manner that interrogates the dominant mode of masculine gameplay. The problematic nature of video-game interactivity and identity, the extent...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
... representations they seek. The facettes de la petite mort featured on Beautiful Agony are drawn from amateur video submissions of the faces of women and men experiencing orgasm, or so the viewer is meant to presume. While the site may be conceptually innovative in the realm of adult Web sites for its lack...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2010
... male-dominated activities. This study explores the design and marketing of Daisy Rock Girl Guitars and Mattel's Barbie Wireless Video Camcorder, two early examples of this unique category of consumer electronics. Since men have historically dominated both filmmaking and electric guitar playing...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 35–61.
Published: 01 December 2011
... has become a culturally accepted shorthand for weak and failed masculinity. Putting these two elements into discussion, this history of Alda's politics and stardom suggests that his efforts toward equality may have always had more in common with “men's movement” philosophies than with breaking down...
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