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... of the Senses in Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom Elena del Río The eye is not the mind, but a material organ. —Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception The visible caresses the eye. One sees and hears...

...John Michael Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1996 Science Friction and Cultural Studies: Intellectuals, Interdisciplinarity, and the Profession of Truth John Michael Albert Einstein Meets the Nutty Professor The recent "science wars" between...

... and the exploitation of bodily secretions such as tears, sweat, and fingernails. Drawing on the writings of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, I argue that Rottenberg's works meditate on how women's bodies are reshaped and rendered productive by the shift from industrial production to “biopolitical production.” Camera...

...Vincent Hausmann This essay focuses on George Cukor's A Woman's Face (US, 1941), a film that complicates a dominant narrative in studies of Joan Crawford's work that locates Mildred Pierce (dir. Michael Curtiz, US, 1945) as inaugurating the star's pronounced, albeit disparaged, iterations...

... of subjectivity, and does so through an intensification of the masochism on which biopolitics depends. In addition to engaging Freudian and Deleuzian theories of masochism, this paper also draws on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's work on biopower and immaterial labor. Jaime Brunton teaches critical...

...Nguyen Tan Hoang The essay examines a tropical manifestation of camp deployed by queer independent filmmakers in Thailand in response to virulent censorship measures. Through close analysis of performances and films produced between 2000 and 2010 by Michael Shaowanasai and Tanwarin Sukkhapisit...

... a visibility of what Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri term “the flesh of the multitude” that offers opportunities for new forms of recognition and political alliance. Sleep Dealer provides an ambivalent theory of visibility and the production of collective memory within a neoliberal frame that sheds light...

... Wieder-Atherton; and pieces by curators Michael Mazière and Sandra Percival. Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Camera Obscura Chantal Akerman feminist film theory...

...Michael T. Martin While slavery is distinctive in human history, its enduring legacy and practices in the modern world are manifest in the “disposable” labor that provisions the brothels, sweatshops, and agricultural plantations in the global economy. This interview with filmmaker Amy Serrano...

...Michael LeBlanc Camera Obscura 2006 Michael LeBlanc is completing his PhD in English at the University of California, Riverside. He is currently working on his dissertation exploring representations of the street as an urban space of masculine revolt in twentieth-century American...

...Michael DeAngelis With Russell Crowe character attributes that might code the star as a narcissistic diva are recontextualized, constructing an authentic figure whose occasional acting out enhances his masculinity rather than feminizing him. This article contrasts the notion of the performer...

...Michael Litwack How can we understand television's pervasive ideology of liveness at a moment in which the medium increasingly invests in the vital capacities of individuals and populations? This article approaches this question by looking at the imbrication of televisual liveness and a perhaps...

...Michael Mazière This essay tracks the development and production of a series of interconnected projects revolving around the work of Chantal Akerman between 2013 and 2016 in London involving retrospective screenings, in-person presentations, symposiums, a major exhibition, an international...

... against the form’s as- sociation with femininity. thirtysomething focuses on an extended “family” of friends who live in or around Philadelphia: the happily married Michael and Hope, the emotional centers of the show; Elliot, Michael’s best friend and business...

... of thirtysome- thing remains unresolved to a greater extent than on conventional series. Like Hope and Michael’s endless home remodeling efforts, this is part of the drama’s attempt to construct a realistic fictional world in which characters’ problems cannot be fully...

... 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...

... of Duras’s next novel in ths cycle. Le Vice-Consul (1966), on which India Song is partially based, takes place in Calcutta and focuses primarily on Anne-Marie Stretter and Michael kchardson. Lol’s story circulates through the novel in fragmented references to Le Ravissement de Lol V...