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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Lynne Joyrich; Misha Kavka; Brenda R. Weber This introduction to the special issue “Project Reality TV” interrogates, while also playing with, some of TV's forms and conventions, particularly those of the “preshow special” and the interview format. Borrowing from this format, it explores key issues...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 188–190.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Continuity, Reality
Celebrity, and the Female Grotesque. No. 88: pp. 11 – 39
Lynne Joyrich, Misha Kavka, and Brenda R. Weber
Project Reality TV: Preshow Special. No. 88: pp. 1 – 9
Kyoung-Lae Kang
Kyung-Sung: Cinematic Memories of the Colonial Past in
Contemporary Korea. No. 90: pp. 27...
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“Quality” Reality and the Bravo Media Reality Series
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 185–195.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Jane Feuer This essay attempts to break down a binary opposition between “quality TV” and reality TV, which is usually set up along an axis of distinction based on aesthetic value. That is: HBO dramas are art; reality TV shows are trash. As Misha Kavka writes, “Because reality television is seen...
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Sex on the Shore: Care and the Ethics of License in Jersey Shore
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 101–127.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Misha Kavka Perhaps no reality TV program has been as roundly criticized for bad behavior as Jersey Shore (MTV, 2009–12). The libidinal license exhibited by the cast, as well as the early controversy regarding the show's use of the terms guido and guidette to describe the Italian American cast...
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“I'm Very Rich, Bitch!”: The Melodramatic Money Shot and the Excess of Racialized Gendered Affect in the Real Housewives Docusoaps
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
... franchise functions affectively, it is important to examine the way in which the program produces a sense of intimacy through its melodramatic 158 Camera Obscura serial mode, which captivates viewers and primes them for the money shots. The franchise is part of what Misha Kavka calls the intimate...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 59–83.
Published: 01 September 2014
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how affect can be experienced in paradoxical ways, with negative
affects playing a role in certain experiences of social connection.26
In line with this thinking, Misha Kavka sees the centrality of shame
and humiliation on reality television as central to its achievement of
intimacy...
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They Gon’ Think You Loud Regardless: Ratchetness, Reality Television, and Black Womanhood
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
... in Palmer, Who You Calling Ratchet, emphasis in original. 5. Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp (1964), in Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966; New York: Picador, 2001), 279. Misha Kavka s intervention visvis flaunting describes a more nuanced discursive strategy for defining camp. Misha Kavka...
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Calculating Couples: Computing Intimacy and 1980s Romance Software
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 145–171.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Doesn't Work,” JSTOR Daily , 10 February 2016, https://daily.jstor.org/dont-fall-in-love-okcupid/ . 38. Misha Kavka, “The Science of Affection: Algorithmic Love Matches on TV,” Screen 62, no. 2 (2021): 227–35. 39. Eva-Lynn Jagoe, “Depersonalized Intimacy: The Cases of Sherry Turkle...
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Making Television Live: Mediating Biopolitics in Obesity Programming
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
... to the editors,
especially Lynne Joyrich and Misha Kavka, for their incisive feedback
and criticism.
1. According to the World Health Organization, “Overweight and
obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation
that may impair health.” World Health Organization, “Obesity...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 165–195.
Published: 01 May 2023
... revel in it. 39 Delighting in the transgressive energies of Trumpism without threatening the privileged pleasures of a free ra(n)ging conservative masculinity, the tough girl's media presence differs from the proper appearance of other Trump women. As Misha Kavka and Emma Blackett astutely note...
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Dead Woman Glowing: Karla Faye Tucker and the Aesthetics of Death Row Photography
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2004
... the obviousness of the thought it has,
which stymies the production of the thought it might become.”
Lauren Berlant, “The Subject of True Feeling,” in Feminist
Consequences: Theory for the New Century, ed. Elisabeth Bronfen
and Misha Kavka (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001...
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In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Popular Culture
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
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Meets Celebrity Culture,” in Consequences: Feminist Theory for the
New Century, ed. Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka (New
York: Columbia University Press, 2001), 283–318, for more
on Eisenman as well as the relation between drawing and
advertising media.
38. For more...
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Memory and Melodrama: The Transnational Politics of Deepa Mehta's Earth
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2005
...: Theory for the New Century, ed. Elisabeth Bronfen and
Misha Kavka (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), 105.
30. Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings, 33.
31. Sidhwa, Cracking India, 28.
32. Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, Borders and Boundaries: Women in
India’s Partition...
