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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 149–175.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Madison Schmalzer Abstract This article explores the relationship between everyday life and play, focusing on the mundane play practices of speedrunning. Employing autoethnographic techniques, the author analyzes her own experiences speedrunning and transitioning as case studies, drawing out...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 95–119.
Published: 01 December 2024
... throwing. No noteworthy testimonies of trauma. It's not even that long, mere seconds, the camera surveilling the bus for something of filmic interest, something for the final cut. These mundane seconds of the Xtravaganzas on a road trip never get their big premiere, as the record shows. It's just a glimpse...
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 30–49.
Published: 01 September 1999
... configurations, of preferred arrangements of intimate
bonds across or within biological groups (that is, among men and
women, among women and women, or among men and men). In this
regard, the numerous small, unremarkable details in the film that fill
the mundane experience of actually living together become...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 248–252.
Published: 01 December 1989
..., except that it also means reading Germans and Russians
and thinkers from the Third World when you can find them in print,
as well as English and French writers. It is rather mundane to say and
something we all do tacitly, but my main guides to research are the
puzzling...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 148–175.
Published: 01 May 1990
... allows fans to abandon “mundane” real
world identities in order to move “betwixt and between” a number
of possible fantasies. What is evoked is not simply a fantasy of escaping
from everyday constraint but also the power to control the process of
fantasy identification...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 246–248.
Published: 01 December 1989
..., except that it also means reading Germans and Russians
and thinkers from the Third World when you can find them in print,
as well as English and French writers. It is rather mundane to say and
something we all do tacitly, but my main guides to research are the
puzzling...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 181–185.
Published: 01 May 2007
... names and describes.
Watching the video is like looking at a family album with
Anna Freud. Her father’s daughter, she alternates everyday details
of a family with telling commentary on the everyday (the com-
mentary itself seemingly mundane at times). Seeming to imitate
a child who points...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 146–150.
Published: 01 May 2008
...
boy, this was my ultimate fantasy of what my life could and should
be: steeped in beauty and sensitivity, but with the power to eradi-
cate the mundane. What this meant to me at age ten was getting
back at those kids who called me a “sissy” or a “fag.” For better or
worse, I came to understand...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 1992
... in a
deep breath and let it out quickly.
He’d learned this in the exercise class and was
determined to use it, to play his part in the mystery of life, including its
mundane sequel. A profound experience, he thought, almost religious.
Sometimes he pictured a divine experiment...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 63–91.
Published: 01 May 2017
... sorting through piles
of paperwork, DVDs, and photographs, “I would like to show how
much it takes to be an artist.” The culmination of this mundane
work is a performance that is itself mundane, ultimately reflecting
back to us the mundane power of biopolitics: the pervasive aspect...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and apparently concealed (but certainly no less violent) ways can necropower be expressed and practiced under the biopolitical program of fostering life? Lastly, in what specific ways have cultural producers offered critical representations of the seemingly mundane, routine instantiations of neoliberal injury...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 165–171.
Published: 01 May 2008
... in encounters on the
gay disco dance floor — a kind of quasitherapeutic exchange to
which Madonna gestures in the album title Confessions on a Dance
Floor (2005). Does anyone doubt that the hearer of her confession
will be a gay man? Even more mundanely, traces of the dandy-diva
couple can be felt...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 173–197.
Published: 01 September 2023
... meant the total objectification of their bodies as they became replaceable via a logic of fungibility. As a result, the affective life of Black people has been devalued or misrecognized. Rankine's Citizen gives poetic dimension to these mundane, yet integral facets of Black experiences, and Idusuyi's...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 65–91.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Surrogates
are also used for mundane affairs like work, as they enhance the
appearance and the agility of the human body: forever young and
resilient, they assuage the anxiety about aging, illness, and death.
By depicting a world in which every capacity of the human body,
including the capacity...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 59–83.
Published: 01 September 2014
... inscription of women in, and in
relation to” films and programs made for women.4 The study of
women’s genres constitutes a body of feminist inquiry that attends
to the contradictory and complex pleasures, practices, and inter-
pretations of apparently mundane and populist texts that are pro-
duced...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
...-er, on the other hand, indulges in the fantasy world
that opera provides as a way of escaping the mundane. Hence
Shaodong’s response to Ying-er’s “naive” idealism represents a
perversely interesting attempt for him to reconnect with the home
that he believes he missed when he was away...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
... characters and fabulously glamorous white women enables camp readings. For example, Desperate Housewives created scandal out of the banalities of the suburban lives of white women and their traditional nuclear families, representing these through a stylized aesthetic that underscored the mundane...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 75–101.
Published: 01 September 1993
...
memory and no sentiment for the past The filmic images of Rouge
would seem, at first, to endorse assiduously this notion of rupture and 77
abandonment. Contrasting dazzling and colorful local scenes of 1934
Hong Kong to the mundane and colorless landscape of 1987 urbanized
and transnational...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 59–89.
Published: 01 September 2022
... for themselves,” Tsangari's films metatextually instruct their own reception—if we step far enough outside Weird Wave rhetoric to hear it. Though Marina's descriptions of physical movements are mundane, David Oh suggests that “autoethnography allows insight into the mundane that are difficult to study otherwise...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 61–93.
Published: 01 December 2024
... omnipresence, creating a shared sensibility among viewers]—that it once was.” 16 For digital television viewers, the television as an emblem of an “aesthetic of ordinary, mundane human existence” as depicted in Reply 1988 may actually represent an unfamiliar, nearly forgotten aspect of the medium. 17...
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