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Reformers and Spectators: The Film Education Movement in the Thirties

Lea Jacobs
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 28–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-1_22-28
Published: 01 January 1990
...Lea Jacobs Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Reformers and Spectators: The Film Education Movement in the Thirties Lea Jacobs Public agitation against the film industry in the thirties was accom- panied by great anxiety about the ways movies...
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The Image (and the) Movement: An Overview of Italian Feminist Research

Giuliana Bruno
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 28–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-28
Published: 01 December 1989
.... La rap-presentazione del corpo nella filosofia e nelle arti . Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 1983 . Nadotti , Maria . “The Cave.” Artforum (January 1989 ). Pistagnesi , Patrizia . Anna Magnani . Milan: Fabbri Editori, 1988 . The Image (and the) Movement: An Overview of Italian...
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Representation Matters: Tatjana Turanskyj on Women’s Filmmaking and the Pro Quote Film Movement

Hester Baer, Angelica Fenner
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 129–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7142212
Published: 01 December 2018
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Pandemic Stasis and Nonlinear Memory in Palestinian Short Films

Luisa Gandolfo
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 165–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11207854
Published: 01 September 2024
...Luisa Gandolfo Abstract When the COVID-19 lockdown was introduced in Palestine-Israel in 2020, it changed how the everyday was negotiated, with stricter control on movement, access, and contact with family members. As the pandemic progressed, the lockdown restrictions layered over an existing...
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The World and the Soup: Historicizing Media Feminisms in Transnational Contexts

Kathleen McHugh
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2009-011
Published: 01 December 2009
...Kathleen McHugh Feminism in the latter half of the twentieth century was a global movement with widespread and significant, if incomplete, uneven, and diverse, local effects. This essay considers the impact of feminisms on film and media culture and asks why it has proven difficult to historicize...
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Evolving Narrative Structures Forge New Cine-Love at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival

Roya Rastegar
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727491
Published: 01 December 2012
... Film Festival, this article gestures to a waxing movement of independent filmmaking that is steadily eroding the hegemony of mainstream film culture. Films discussed include Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere and Nadine Labaki's Where Do We Go Now? Significant shifts in the field of independent film...
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Close-Ups and Curlicues: Female Neurosis in Two Films by Anatole Litvak

Seth Watter
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 93–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3160663
Published: 01 December 2015
... camera movement. Magnification of ordinary percepts, or a general and unpleasant accenting of objects in the visual field, is a common complaint in the phenomenology of mental illness, for example, in hysteria, obsession, phobia, and paranoia. An illness removes something from its ordinary context...
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The Kids Are All Right , the Pursuits of Happiness, and the Spaces Between

Jodi Brooks
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 111–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2408534
Published: 01 May 2014
... reception. The author argues that the film occupies an in-between space as a result of its movements between different genres, audiences, and agendas. Reading The Kids Are All Right in relation to Cholodenko's previous films, the author examines how it tracks, explores, and is marked by the spaces between...
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Photography Consists of Collaboration: Susan Meiselas, Wendy Ewald, and Ariella Azoulay

Ariella Azoulay
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 187–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454496
Published: 01 May 2016
... sources, including police archives, documentation of political movements like the suffragist movement, communal activism, art projects, and so on. Ariella Azoulay is a professor of modern culture and media and comparative literature at Brown University. Her recent books include From Palestine...
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“Sometimes It Seems You’re in Another World”: Afrocentric Feminisms of the LA Rebellion

Jamie Ann Rogers
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 125–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8359552
Published: 01 September 2020
...Jamie Ann Rogers This article traces the development of Afrocentric feminist aesthetics within the LA Rebellion, a film movement made up primarily of Black film students at UCLA from 1970 to the late 1980s. It argues that these aesthetics are integral to the movement’s heterogeneous but radical...
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She Listened: Vardian Self-Portraiture and Auto-Refrains of Sea, Wind, and Sand

Nadine Boljkovac
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 61–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838541
Published: 01 May 2021
... of people” she doesn't know, through her acts of listening and portraiture, in her later years Varda simultaneously attained a recognizable persona and an imperceptibility that gestured to an inward-outward movement her works so often foretell: that of a self's full dissolution into memory and world...
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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Transnational Feminist Spectatorship and Farida Benlyazid's A Door to the Sky

Suzanne Gauch
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 107–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2009-004
Published: 01 September 2009
... relating its message almost exclusively through its protagonist's point of view, the film highlights her individuality, eliding the broader Moroccan feminist and cultural movements in which Benlyazid's film claims to intervene. For transnational feminist audiences, Benlyazid's film thus stages, whether...
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“They Can't Do This to Us !”: Alan Alda as (Anti)Feminist Signifier

Peter Alilunas
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 35–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1415425
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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Tongue Twisters: The Travelogue Videos of Ming-Yuen S. Ma

Peter X Feng
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 69–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1533448
Published: 01 May 2012
... for homosexuality in the Chinese diaspora. The four videos ( Myth(s) of Creation, Mother/Land, Movements East-West , and [os] ) that make up Xin Lu: A Travelogue in Four Parts combine memoir with a meditation on the discursive construction of travel narratives. Building on Ma's earlier work ( Toc Storee and Slanted...
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Pinkface

John Greyson
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 145–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1597240
Published: 01 September 2012
... producer Robert Lantos, who repeatedly accused the Toronto Declaration signators of being blacklisters, censors, and fascists (among other choice terms). By deconstructing Lantos's accusations one by one, Greyson in turn reveals the specific tactics that distinguish this current boycott movement from past...
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Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes, Postfeminism, and the Birth of Social Networking Technologies

Jonathan Cohn
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 151–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2209943
Published: 01 September 2013
... to larger cultural movements focused on equating greater consumer choice with greater freedom. Most popular histories of these technologies portray them as being created primarily by and for men, but many of these technologies were actually pioneered by Pattie Maes, a professor at the Massachusetts...
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Choreographing Homosexual Desire in Philippe Vallois's Johan

David A. Gerstner
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2352176
Published: 01 December 2013
... Hollywood musical, Vallois creates a cinematic experience that merges historical film aesthetics with the late 1960s and early 1970s homosexual movement unfolding in France. Through a self-conscious film-within-a-film narrative, Johan provocatively commingles several genre forms (documentary, the musical...
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“Miserable Women on Television”: Irene McCabe, Television News, and Antibusing Politics

Matt Delmont
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 33–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2801507
Published: 01 December 2014
... television attention as McCabe and her Pontiac, Michigan – based antibusing organization, the National Action Group. In a protest that was more than simply an example of white backlash against civil rights, McCabe learned from other protest movements, creating television-ready scenes that garnered attention...
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An Affair to Forget: Melancholia in Bromantic Comedy

Tania Modleski
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2704652
Published: 01 September 2014
... of the protagonist's desire. In Knocked Up (dir. Judd Apatow, US, 2007), the film's visuals and its staging of visuality work against the rom-com conventions that the film draws upon, resisting the plot's forward movement into heteronormativity. The article ends by examining The Hangover (dir. Todd Phillips, US, 2009...
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Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai?/What Is behind the Stardom? Madhuri Dixit, the Production Number, and the Construction of the Female Star Text in 1990s Hindi Cinema

Usha Iyer
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 129–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3160674
Published: 01 December 2015
... and the raunchily dancing vamp. It suggests that these refigurations often revolve around dance, which operated as a critical site for the negotiation of cultural anxieties around female sexuality during the period. This article employs a body-space-movement framework to consider the strategies that nineties Hindi...
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