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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 146–165.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Sasha Torres Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 Figure 1.
War and Remembrance:
Televisual Narrative, National Memory,
and China Beach
Sasha Torres
I. Memory: Televisual, Popular, National
In “The Gift the last show of China Beach’s third season on ABC...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 137–145.
Published: 01 September 1988
...Richard Allen Brushing Classical Hollywood Narrative Against
the Grain of History
Richard Allen
Dana Polan, Powerand Paranoia: History, Narrative and the American Cin•
ema, 1940-1950 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
Dana Polan's study of American cinema of the forties...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 132–147.
Published: 01 May 1990
...John Fiske
Popular Narrative and Commercial Television
John Fiske
Let me begin with five instances within my recent, somewhat channel-
happy television viewing:
1. On America’s Most Wanted a crime is reconstructed using both
actors and the “real” people actually involved...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
... are happening on two interconnected fronts. Directors otherwise marginalized within the larger film industry are refiguring narrative conventions by not only allowing for a multiplicity of experiences and perspectives among characters and story lines, but also mobilizing their storytelling structure...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 100–133.
Published: 01 January 1992
...Jamie Feldman Tom Kalin, Viruses as Nationalism, 1989
Gallo, Montagnier, and the Debate Over HIV:
A Narrative Analysis
Jamie Feldman
Introduction and Theory
The title of this article immediately raises two important questions:
why look at the Gallo-Montagnier dispute at all...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 91–117.
Published: 01 September 2022
... generational, national, gender, and ethnic boundaries. fanliterature@foxmail.com Copyright © 2022 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2022 Nanjing Massacre family narrative gender hinge generation transnational memories Figure 1. The picture of Xia Shuqin taken...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Olivia Landry Abstract The 2020 Netflix drama series Unorthodox draws on tropes from a vexed archive of transcultural cinema, in particular Turkish German cinema. Through the frame of the captivity narrative, this essay examines how the series about a young Hasidic Jewish woman who escapes her...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 102–110.
Published: 01 September 1983
...Lea Jacobs Book Reviews
Nina and the Book (Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau, 1922)
The Political Unconscious:
Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
by FredricJameson (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981)
Lea]acobs
Fredric Jameson's The Political...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Mitch and Cam, has raised the hackles of audiences who see in it a whitewashing of queer life and queer desire. A strain of television criticism posits a conservatism inherent to the narrative structures of the sitcom, and this dynamic would in some measure account for the tension between the program’s...
Journal Article
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 (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 180–198.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Shohini Chaudhuri I
Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996)
Visit of the Body Snatchers: Alien Invasion
Themes in Vampire Narratives
Shohini Chaudhuri
There looms, within abjection, one of those vio...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 149–175.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... It argues that Tumblr encourages its users to draw on the fragmentary, potentially incoherent pieces of information they regularly encounter on the site in order to collectively create narratives that can accommodate them. In other words, Tumblr's platform characteristics produce a queer temporality...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Despina Kakoudaki While there has been more critical attention on Pedro Almodóvar's films in recent years, his narrative craft has not been extensively studied, even as he is frequently described as one of the most creative and unconventional storytellers of the contemporary screen. This article...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 69–95.
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...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2012
... ideas of racial progress and recombines them with different narratives and ideologies so that audiences may receive them as new and cut off from history. By centering its finale on the survival of one genetically idealized child, Battlestar constructs a new narrative context for an old story...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 89–123.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Diana Adesola Mafe This article argues that the 2013 first-person shooter (FPS) video game BioShock Infinite (2K Games) challenges gamers in its representations of race. Launched in 2007, the BioShock franchise has a reputation for thoughtful dystopian narratives, beautiful retro worlds...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 31–57.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ekin Pinar Abstract This article considers how the temporality at work in Chick Strand's film Mosori Monika (US, 1970) breaks with the patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist narratives of genealogy, progress, and production. In Mosori Monika , an experimental ethnographic film that documents...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 69–87.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of the 1979 film The Rose (dir. Mark Rydell, US), and in particular, through its spectacular reimagining of Janis Joplin's death, Bradshaw explores our cultural attachment to narratives of the diva's abjection and shame. By framing Joplin, that quintessential symbol of both 1960s rock-and-roll culture...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Linda Liu Many US horror films made within the last thirty years feature haunted real estate narratives involving histories of land usurpation, territorial displacement, and other violence inflicted on socially marginalized groups. Insofar as the aftereffects of these histories recurrently manifest...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 129–159.
Published: 01 December 2015
... body on-screen and indeed the very conditions of female stardom in Hindi cinema. This article analyzes the dance numbers from three films featuring Dixit and demonstrates the tensions and alterations provoked in the popular Hindi film narrative by the dissolving divide between the coy heroine...
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