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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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The Face and the Public: Race, Secrecy, and Digital Art Practice
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 37–65.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Jennifer González Contemporary digital artists have been exploring the function of the face and its relation to public space for several decades. This essay offers a close reading of artworks by Keith Piper, Nancy Burson, Keith Obadike, and the collective Mongrel that address the relation between...
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Sight, Insight, and Power: Allegory of a Cave
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 90–110.
Published: 01 December 1980
...Thierry Kuntzel; Nancy Huston © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 ∗“Sight, Insight, and Power” was published in French as “Savoir, Pouvoir, Voir” in Ça Cinéma , no. 7–8 (May 1975).
Sight, Insight, and Power: Allegory of a Cave*
Thierry Kuntxel
One...
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French Feminism
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 237–244.
Published: 01 May 1979
...Nancy Huston Copyright © 1979 by Camera Obscura 1979 to include a list of the articles: 237
“Dora” - fragment of an analysis by Jacqueline Rose
“The Personal is Political”: The Problem of Feminist Therapy by
Susan Lipshitz
Socialist Feminism...
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Mary Cassatt
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 111–119.
Published: 01 September 1983
...Nancy Wood Griselda Pollock. Mary Cassatt (New York: Harper & Row, 1980) © 1983 by Camera Obscura 1983 Mary Cassatt
by Griselda Pollock (New York: Harper & Row, 1980)
Nancy Wood
Griselda Pollock states as the opening caveat ofher book that many readers
may well have...
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Melodrama, Masculinity, and the Family: thirtysomething as Therapy
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 86–107.
Published: 01 January 1989
... partner, and his wife Nancy; Michael’s unmarried childhood
friend, Gary, an English professor; Hope’s unmarried childhood friend
Ellen, a civil servant; and Melissa, Michael’s cousin, a photographer
who is also unmarried. As opposed to MTM series like The Mary
Tyler Moore Show...
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“All Your Faves Are Problematic”: The Performative Spectatorship of Drunk Feminist Films
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 149–159.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in October 2015. The Craft follows teenager Sarah (Robin Tunney) as she joins three other girls, Bonnie (Neve Campbell), Rochelle (Rachel True), and Nancy (Fairuza Balk), to form a witches’ coven at her new school. After dedicating themselves to the “power of Manon” during a ritual ceremony, cracks begin...
FIGURES
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She Listened: Vardian Self-Portraiture and Auto-Refrains of Sea, Wind, and Sand
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 61–85.
Published: 01 May 2021
... expose us to ourselves while always foregrounding the woman, and women, behind, before, and beyond the lens. Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2021 7. Bluher, “Other Portrait,” 49. 8. Anthony Gritten, “ Listening , by Jean-Luc Nancy,” trans. Charlotte...
FIGURES
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Diva Traffic and Male Bonding in Film: Teaching Opera, Learning Gender, Race, and Nation
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 47–73.
Published: 01 September 2004
... (dir. Nancy
Savoca, US) provides an ironic and instructive reversal of this tra-
ditional heterosexual operatic tutelage. A wounded white male,
Lino Falconetti (Victor Argo), attempts to woo Pat Shen (Dzeni
Teng), the Chinese daughter of a laundry owner. Being poor, he
Diva...
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Veronica Clare and the New Film Noir Heroine
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 76–101.
Published: 01 May 1994
...?
The problem with audience appeal clearly arises not because women
are inherently unsuited to following out the trajectory of investigation,
whether it be characterized as Oedipal, pre-Oedipal, or (as is the case
with Pynchon’s Oedipa Mas), post-Oedipal. Brought up in post-Nancy
Drew culture...
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Invitation to Perform Utopia and Catastrophe: On Okin Collective's Video Works
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 141–151.
Published: 01 December 2016
... who are distinct in identity yet share a common
interest in changing the global social and economic crisis. In this
way, Okin’s conception of collectivity echoes what Jean-Luc Nancy
and Giorgio Agamben have proposed as a nonessentialized idea
of community, a community that promotes a sense...
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The Future of Feminism and Film History
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 39–44.
Published: 01 May 2006
... of the author) that allowed wom-
en’s subjectivity to speak to us across those texts. Yet at the same
historical moment that feminist biographers adapted auteurist
criticism to female subjects, literary critics pronounced the death
of authorship — a political fact most pointedly noticed by Nancy K...
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Susan White
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 327–331.
Published: 01 December 1989
... with the literary criticism that informs my work (including
the work of such feminist theorists as Luce Irigaray, Juliet Mitchell,
Mary Jacobus, Nina Auerbach, Naomi Schor, Nancy Armstrong and
Catherine Gallagher), I continue to find linguistically based psycho-
analysis a valuable instrument with which...
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Is the Gaze Maternal?: E. Ann Kaplan's Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 195–214.
Published: 01 September 1985
... and contrasts them
with the reasons for patriarchy’s omission of the mother from its discourse.
Using the work of feminist theorists such as Dorothy Dinnerstein,
Adrienne Rich, and Nancy Chodorow,13 Kaplan argues that in a patri-
archal culture the child experiences ambivalent feelings toward...
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Notes on Digital Community and Revolution
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 99–131.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Chela Sandoval and Donna Haraway in the 1980s and of the
historical processes accounted for in Wendy Brown’s theorization
of neoliberalism and Nancy Fraser’s concept of the cunning of his-
tory.4 Rather than rehearsing these existing critiques or dismissing
their object as so obviously flawed...
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Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 153.
Published: 01 December 1980
... is realizing as a book of poems called Leopard
Lady, A Film Soon To Be Released; and a series of Leopard Lady drawings.
Nancy Huston is a Canadian who has been living in Paris for the past
seven years. Her thesis analyzing swearwords, Dire et interdire, written
while studylng with Roland Barthes...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 264.
Published: 01 May 1994
...: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman by
Susan M. White. Columbia University Press, 1995. $18.50.
Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia edited
by Nancy Condee. Indiana University Press, 1995. $12.95.
Family Secrets: Acts of Memory...
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Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 146–147.
Published: 01 September 1983
... critical studies by Lucette Finas. Her research interests are in French
Renaissance literature.
Nancy Wood lives in London and is on the advisory board of miland
Formations. ...
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Free Indirect Affect in Cassavetes' Opening Night and Faces
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 105–139.
Published: 01 September 2004
... about her
difficulties acting. Sarah, the author of The Second Woman, asks
Myrtle how her problem may be best addressed, and in reply Myr-
tle mentions a young girl named Nancy—a fan who has been
killed in an automobile accident earlier in the film while hound-
ing Myrtle for an autograph. Myrtle has...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of rational delib-
eration. The body is the source of aesthetic experience, and it is
therefore impossible to divorce the political from this organic and
socially organized physicality.
Nancy Love argues that deliberative democrats tend to
“translate voice into speech and, more narrowly...
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