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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 129–165.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Diana W. Anselmo This article employs the concept of imitation as a lens through which the author explores the complex relationship established between the fledgling Hollywood film industry and the first generation of girls to be culturally construed as “adolescent” and “movie fans” in the US...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 7–33.
Published: 01 December 2023
... by its anxious, phobic reaction to Green's sexuality; that it both depicts and provokes paranoid queer readings; and that the movie's future depends on the imaginative re‐creations and re‐queerings of the modern fan culture that has sprung up around it. 11. See Miller, “Anal Rope ,” 120–22. 12...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 155–157.
Published: 01 September 1995
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Perspectives on German Cinema edited by Terri Ginsberg and Kirsten Moana
Thompson. G.K. Hall & Co. $65.00
At the Picture Show: Small-Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan
Culture by Katherine H. Fuller. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. $34.95.
Mexican Cinema/Mexican Woman, 1940-1 9.50...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 1990
... University; the
second, influenced by Edgar Dale’s research at Ohio State University,
was linked with the National Council of Teachers of English. Both
May and Dale had contributed monographs to the Payne Fund Studies.
May’s The Social Conduct and Attitudes of Movie Fans...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 90–107.
Published: 01 May 1990
... was an effective and apparently
constructive way of countering those threats. However, the industry
had other, related motives. Critics charged that Hays was interested
only in turning children into movie fans. Little probably had to be
done to accomplish that, but there is no doubt some truth...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 197–227.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Pickford for her lack of versatility. She
has so firmly established herself in the affection of a large army of movie
fans that, perhaps, there would be disappointment if Mary turned out in
some picture to be any one else than Mary.”12
In the same year, Pickford articulated the limitations created...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 47–77.
Published: 01 January 1988
... charged overpresence of stars, glitter and
glamor, went on to institutionalize the idea that "real life" was to be found
in the movie theater. Studio publicity departments singled out female fans,
in particular, for their devoted attention to Hollywood stars and product
tie-ins through fan magazines...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 4–7.
Published: 01 May 1990
... with Star Trek fans, Jenkins
demonstrates how the fans make mass culture into a folk culture-
literally fashioning folk (or “filk” songs as the fans call them) around
commercial media. Jenkins argues that this fan culture is extremely
intertextual and c‘n~madic,”drawing together movies, songs...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 159–195.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Fox in 1915 starring vamp
prototype Theda Bara.
27. Timothy Brennan, Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the
Nation (New York: St. Martin’s, 1989).
28. Gladys Hall, “Diary of a Professional Movie Fan,” 1923.
Unattributed clipping in the Gladys Hall Collection, AMPAS...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 75–117.
Published: 01 September 2010
...
the Marquise with her own body, feeling the touches of the bold
lover. Likewise, a fan in the movie theater could direct his or her
gaze toward the screen and imagine his or her own body caressed
by Valentino.
For Hector and Theodora, as well as the audience, Versailles
acts as a screen on which...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 131–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Francesca Coppa; Rebecca Tushnet Vidding is a thirty-year-old remix practice in which predominantly female media fans reedit television or film into music videos. Vidding is important not only as an art form in its own right but also as a subcultural — and often feminist — reinterpretation...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 58–75.
Published: 01 May 1992
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created both character and fan. Like most horror movies, however,
what is titillating is the possibility of return, and Misery is no exception;
the final scene displays the possibilities of another “number one fan”
in the guise of a waitress at a restaurant where he and Lauren...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 41–74.
Published: 01 September 1993
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7. As Tarantino told Sight and Sound, “I’ve been a fan of John Travolta . . ,
forever. I think he’s one of the best actors there is. . . . But I’ve been
very sad about how he’s been used . . . the movies he’s been doing. . .
What is wrong with these directors...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of participatory culture with which the new series is associated. Despite the apparent transgression of men enjoying a television show clearly coded as being for young girls, the article argues that Brony practices reproduce many male-centered aspects of fan media consumption in a manner that recuperates...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 149–159.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Picture Show and Popular Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); Marisa C. Hayes, ed., Fan Phenomena: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2015); J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum, “The Birth of Rocky Horror ,” in Midnight Movies (New York: Harper and Row, 1983), 1–14...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 93–127.
Published: 01 May 2017
... vision is finally located in the
movie fan magazines that accompanied Le jour se lève, revealing
that the Truth is not only intertextual but also exists in a multi-
media form. By locating the Truth in a movie magazine, Enfants
aligns this notion with the marginal status characterizing the sto...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Victor Fan This article studies the success of the Twilight franchise in relation to the stardom of Robert Pattinson by proposing a model of interpretation called “the poetics of addiction.” The term addiction is used in this essay not as a top-down form of dependency but as a multilateral...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 25–59.
Published: 01 December 2007
... fantasy of viewing and re-viewing
films, wherein the personal interacts with the cultural including
the “memories and experiences of other movies” enjoyed by fans.
As White stresses the importance of fandom and fan communities
in encouraging both fantasy and revision of the codes of Holly-
wood...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 227–265.
Published: 01 December 2001
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queerness in the dream language of fans? If the movies and the
ephemeral visual culture surrounding them invited the eyes of
vulgar people, they also made it possible for some...
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 74–87.
Published: 01 December 1982
... it will take you two or three seconds to
realize you’re watching a film . . . or to recognize Kim Novak even if
you’re a movie fan. And if, during these first three or four seconds, you
were yourself to be filmed with a small video camera looking at Kim
Novak, it would...
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