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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 143–179.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Erin Schroeder Camera Obscura 2001 Erin Schroeder received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Rochester in 1999. She is currently pursuing research in Martinique. 05-Schroeder.sh 5/29/01 12:39 PM Page iv
Menace II Society (dir. Allen...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 6–23.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Grant Farred Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton, 1991)
No Way out of the Menaced Society:
Loyalty within the Boundedness of Race
Grant Farred
Where there is an actual arc of rising violence...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 274–295.
Published: 01 September 1991
... repetition, helps to figure the murder
more as spectacle than event, in a maneuvre of spectacular aestheti-
cization. At the same time, however, the scene stages an anxious fantasy
in which the menacing black man is the mother’s agent; he has been
sent by Marietta Pace (Diane...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 96–119.
Published: 01 May 1993
... for attract-
ing large audiences. I will argue that the spectacle of the imperilled
white nuclear family is crucial to AMWs definition of crime and I will
examine how this construction functions, in Foucault’s words, to
affirm “that criminality is a constant menace to the social body...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 1–35.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Metropolis
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) treats us to amazing visual effects.
With frequent dissolves to huge, menacing engines and steam
towers that run his futuristic city, the film offers us various angles
of an urbanscape that was inspired by Lang’s visit to Manhattan:
layers and layers of stacked...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 86–109.
Published: 01 December 1986
..., charged with
an ineluctable menace-just as the front doors of the Bates house in
Psycho seem to move eerily towards Vera Miles as she goes to pene-
trate the mystery behind them.
The unsettling quality of the “ordinary” future environment fore-
grounds the unabashed...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 158–160.
Published: 01 September 1995
... to
Discursive Production: Lesbianism in The Children’s Hour. No. 35; pp.
87-106.
Farred, Grant
No Way Out of the Menaced Society: Loyalty within the Boundedness of
Race. No. 35; pp. 7-24.
Feuer, Jane
Feminism on Lifetime: Yuppie TV...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 4–23.
Published: 01 January 1989
.... Questions of differentiation are organized in spaces coded
to represent “high art,” and good taste, which are estab-
lished in contrast to the menace of the common, the vulgar, the popular
and the “lower class.” These ambivalent cinematic constructions of
sexual difference...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 75–102.
Published: 01 May 1997
... of The X-Files are con-
fronted by the paradoxical mantras of post-Watergate consciousness:
white capital letters appear against menacing backgrounds warning us
to “Trust No One” and declaring that “The Truth Is Out There.” The
episodes that follow these injunctions fascinate us not because we...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2017
...
menacing as the monster asserts its authority over the child:
Figure 3. A friendly version of the monster, from Alexander
Juhasz’s pop-up book Mister Babadook
Parenting through Horror • 11
Figure 4. The monster shows his true face in Juhasz’s Mister...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 134–139.
Published: 01 September 2007
... the pace and darkening the
tone of the original, Jones sucks out the track’s lothario sleaze and
replaces it with cyborg soul. Throbbing bass and synthesizer ar
peggios transform Bryan Ferry’s dandy daydream into something
rather more menacing, evoking a world in which love is a side effect...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 40–65.
Published: 01 December 1984
..., of Australian-ness as a gesture
delimiting, momentarily, a space of replication.
This can be a menacing move, depending as it does on a double shuttle
‘The
between 1) Maltinationah, ” a myth if not a principle of evil
rendered all the more demonic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 81–109.
Published: 01 December 2008
...
Friedan’s infamous condemnation of the “lavender menace” cap-
tured the intolerance that some women’s communities harbored
Ins and Outs of Female Sensibility • 99
against lesbians. At the other end of the spectrum, advocates of
“Sapphic love” situated lesbian identity...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2010
... that of a sinister
character (or monster) threatening the world of the protagonists.
Cowie gives an example from Coma (dir. Michael Crichton, US,
1978), where an objective shot of the protagonist attempting to
start her car is suddenly transubstantiated into that of a menacing
character who we thereby...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 52–76.
Published: 01 September 1996
... which Douglas, himself an avid fan of the New York Knicks
basketball team, played with such calculating menace. Figures such as
the iconographic and ubiquitous Michael Jordan, the black athlete
who is not only financially successful, but constitutionally incapable
of giving political offense...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 129–157.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of Orientalism were combined with qualities of
the modern American male in Hayakawa’s persona. Kirihara fur-
ther states that “the image of a thin veil of civility shrouding the
menacing beast would remain a part of Hayakawa’s star personal-
ity throughout his career,” but civility, and beyond...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 90–107.
Published: 01 May 1990
... Menace.” Civic, religious and educational organizations
were increasingly showing films in auditoriums and courtyard squares,
often without charging admission. Thus, an alternative mode of ex-
hibition had arisen that bypassed the theaters and presumably hurt
their business. Many of the early...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 161–179.
Published: 01 May 1997
... are the
primary adversaries, while caretaking institutions-hospitals, social
services, law enforcement-assume supporting menacing roles, all linked
by their inhumanity to the ominous machines that wish to wipe out
civilization. Terminator 2 does not, of course, explicitly address...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 231–239.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and we were dealing with these familiar tasks, an unfamiliar and rather menacing specter cast a pall over our progress. By early March the spread of COVID-19 had already prompted event cancellations and postponements in academic circles, leaving organizations scrambling to address or mitigate...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2007
... “Gun-
slinger” of Westworld.1 Odder still, all the footmen of the droid
army — in the newest generation of Star Wars movies (Star Wars:
Episode I — The Phantom Menace; Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of
the Clones; Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith) — also carry
guns despite...
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