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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 66–89.
Published: 01 May 2025
... that the genre simultaneously offers a critique of neoliberalism and rehabilitates the same principles elsewhere. A comparative analysis of these films not only sheds light on the evolution of the tourist romance genre but also maps the shifting politics of love in the time of neoliberalism. In so doing...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in relation to this decisive moment in the transition to neoliberalism in Britain, recognizing its sympathy for the miners as well as the ideological limitations to that sympathy generated by the focus on Billy's trajectory out of his class and toward the metropolis. That trajectory is symbolically freighted...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2024
... into the necropolitical dimensions of neoliberal modernization along the US-Mexico border during the post-NAFTA era through the turn of the millennium. Both films represent the intersection of neoliberalism and necropolitics, particularly in terms of the spatial aspects or modalities of necropower that inhere...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of neoliberalism demonstrates that embodiment in digital image networks emerges as a mode of intervention into the biopolitics of memory. Embodiment becomes the ghost in the machine of the film’s vision of neoliberal labor and memory markets. By focusing on the particular aesthetic means by which the film thinks...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 21–47.
Published: 01 December 2018
... and Herzsprung challenge the reigning narrative of not only neoliberal but also socialist citizenship: that hard work will be rewarded. The dream of the good life remains unattainable in both films. An investigation of continuities in their aesthetic sensibilities and social thematics and in how they cast...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Minh-Ha T. Pham This essay closely considers the political limits and possibilities of fashion-themed blogs. Specifically, the author examines the ways in which such blogs are everyday cultural sites that are framed by and can potentially reframe neoliberal relations of culture, technology...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 71–102.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Shannan Hayes Abstract This essay develops a theory of Mika Rottenberg's video art by attending to both the content her work represents (neoliberalism's logic of gendered labor) and the formal characteristics by which her art affects (sensibly drawing the viewer in while resisting assimilation...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Jonathan Cohn This article focuses on the birth of social networking and digital recommendation technologies and their relationship to current cultures of postfeminism and neoliberalism. These technologies, primarily designed to bring users in touch with other people and consumer goods, are tied...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 71–99.
Published: 01 May 2015
... is instrumental to theorizing addictive spectatorship, a concept that takes seriously the notion that television may act affectively as a drug. Recovery television, it claims, helps viewers negotiate their own relationship to television consumption. Furthermore, such a negotiation augments notions of neoliberal...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2016
... documentary might provide a powerful antidote to the logics of neoliberalism. Zoë Druick is an associate professor in the School of Communication and associate dean of the Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology at Simon Fraser University. Her most recent publications are Cinephemera: Archives...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
...-century form of comedy but also in modes of self-fashioning in neoliberal times. Rebecca Wanzo is an associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 195–203.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., and collaborative interventions as well as the feminist and activist legacies that inform her video, performance, and installation works. For Wyman, opacity and camouflage enable collective emancipatory action in a time of contemporary neoliberal forms of surveillance, as seen in the practices of Pussy Riot members...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 105–137.
Published: 01 September 2018
... voiced by Siri and her sisters, spokeswomen of neoliberal, digital capitalism. Copyright © 2018 Camera Obscura 2018 media archaeology feminism voice noise ...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 103–127.
Published: 01 December 2018
... to give affective expression to cruel optimism. Finally, she reworks the chick flick to implicitly reject certain postfeminist, neoliberal premises. Maren Ade chick flick representability postfeminism precarity awkwardness Copyright © 2018 Camera Obscura 2018 ...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 1–19.
Published: 01 December 2018
... study for considering women’s filmmaking in neoliberal times because of its centrality to the development of feminist film theory at an earlier historical moment in the 1970s. Reframing the history of the West German feminist film movement, the introduction considers the unfolding of new practices...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 147–155.
Published: 01 December 2018
... to be multipronged and diverse and therefore can be historically situated within the tradition of feminist film activism in Germany. The essay illustrates the unique paths each organization has pursued within a neoliberal film market to achieve the common goals of gender equality and the revitalization of women’s...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the political power of these interventions, accusations were leveled at Beyoncé of cultural appropriation and exploitation of suffering by the neoliberal entertainment machine. By mentoring these artists, Beyoncé sought to convey the fertility of creative foment across borders and power hierarchies, even if her...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
Published: 01 December 2011
... bonds that contemporary humanitarian discourses of media advocacy are forging with the affirmative economic imperatives of neoliberalism. Camera Obscura 2011 Pooja Rangan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has a background in documentary...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by the state. Drawing on contemporary television studies that link the genre of courtroom television to neoliberal governance, the article finally suggests that if (reality) television takes legal citizenship of its citizen-subjects for granted, And I Do Survive articulates precisely the gap between...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 165–175.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of the impact of neoliberalism on current queer politics, the piece winds its way toward a suturing of queer identity and questions of nation. Road Movie installation at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Photo by Tom Blanchard, courtesy O’Born Contemporary I N PRACTICE: THE QU EER ST A T...