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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., Picturing the Nation: The Moving Pictures and American Modernity . Traffic in Souls (US, 1913), directed by George Loane Tucker. Courtesy Library of Congress Motion Picture Reading Room Regulating Mobility: Technology, Modernity, and Feature-Length Narrativity in Traffic in Souls Kristen...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 43–75.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of modernity and traditional or religious law, this essay argues that Longinotto frames the women not as “primitive others” but as entrenched in the complex paradigms of modernity. Moreover, the four documentaries under consideration weave together the activities of expressing pain or witnessing the pain...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 91–127.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Tanaka's Acting in Mizoguchi Films,” was published in Screening the Past . Shiraito (Irie Takako) looks at her absent lover’s desk in The Water Magician (dir. Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan, 1933). Courtesy Tokyo National Film Center In the Twilight of Modernity and the Silent Film: Irie Takako...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 129–157.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Catherine Russell Hara Setsuko in End ofSummer (Ozu Yasujiro, 1961). "Overcoming Modernity": Gender and the Pathos of History in Japanese Film Melodrama Catherine Russell Although this seemed unpalatable to Westerners...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Juliana Chang This essay explicates how Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) and Linda Low (Nancy Kwan), the Asian migrant and Asian American female leading characters in the film Flower Drum Song (dir. Henry Koster, US, 1961), oscillate between embodying the fantasies of American modernity and exposing...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 63–101.
Published: 01 December 2006
... networks in recent American fiction. “her” (frontispiece to title page) from Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster. Courtesy of Eastgate Systems Subject to Change: The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster and Other Posthumanist Critiques...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 161–171.
Published: 01 September 2010
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 15–55.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... Courtesy Kawakita Memorial Film Institute Imaging Modern Girls in the Japanese Woman’s Film Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano In Japan during the 1920s and early 1930s, the true other of modernity was not so much the worker but woman.  — Harry Harootunian, Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Tison Pugh Despite the progressive ambitions announced in its title, the sitcom Modern Family (ABC, 2009–) has been excoriated by many viewers for its purported conservatism and reactionary politics. In particular, the program’s treatment of homosexuality, evident in the story line of gay couple...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Douglas S. Ishii The “ Modern Family effect,” a reference to the ABC family sitcom that premiered in 2009, first emerged to describe the program’s ratings success and then shifted in meaning to discuss its seemingly bipartisan depiction of same-sex marriage. This convergence of television’s...
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 3–17.
Published: 01 December 1984
...Denise Mann © 1984 by Camera Obscura 1984 Modem Sexuahty (1979) Staggering Toward Modern Times: The Video Art of Max Almy DeniJe Man n Max Almy’s video art moves from the highly personal, low-tech, black and white multi-monitor performance piece to that of the multi-layered...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 155–186.
Published: 01 January 1996
...Keya Ganguly Carnal Knowledge: Visuality and the Modern in Charulata Keya Ganguly There is such a thing as a special subject for the cmema. Satyajit Ray, quoted in the New York Times...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Heidi Brevik-Zender Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette (US, 2006) is about fashion and the construction of feminine identity — but not those of ancien-régime France. Rather, it is a modern consideration of contemporary sartorial networks that reflects an ironic twenty-first-century attitude...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 35–79.
Published: 01 December 2008
... or colonial fetish that haunts the making of modern architectural theory and the celebrity of Baker become the site of critical possibility through which we can track the conjoined stories of “modern nudity” (as stylized purity) and “primitive nakedness” (as material embodiment.) Tracking the charged concepts...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Kyoung-Lae Kang This essay examines two films, Modern Boy (dir. Ji-woo Jeong, South Korea, 2008) and Private Eye (dir. Dae-min Park, South Korea, 2009), both of which depict Seoul in the 1930s—the period during which Korean colonial modernity was fully shaped—and in so doing draw contemporary...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 163–193.
Published: 01 September 2019
... liberalism’s paradigmatic other. Although it builds on these critiques, the essay asks how these logics play out quite differently in a majority Buddhist society and in a modernity that is not understood only as secular. The essay investigates how contemporary globally circulating Thai films furnish...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 139–159.
Published: 01 May 2020
... we read the emergence of the “horror city” as a representation of the political unconscious of this historical conjuncture. Many films refer back to older mythologies of imperial and racial conquest, but also by doing so represent the symbol of modernity—the city—as travel back to a traumatic past...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2009
... is ultimately conservative and functions as a form of narrative containment, the modern purification ritual that emphasizes the need to be recuperated into the male order of things. Camera Obscura 2009 K K Seet established the Theatre Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore in 1992...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 73–109.
Published: 01 December 2009
... is a figure for recasting the problematic of racial alterity as a materialist concern. Relying on Walter Benjamin's formulations on allegory as a privileged mode of representation under conditions of modernity, the author argues that alterity straddles the boundary between the corporeal and the ideational...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of nudity, it contributes to a long-standing obsession with revealing a person's interiority through the translation of embodied signifiers. Modern technologies, and the cultures of self-display they have fostered, offer up new methods of achieving what more self-consciously empirical projects have always...