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“Actors Simply Explode”: To Act in the Cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 93–117.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., and capitalist modes of communication. The author identifies and analyzes key characteristics of this methodology, using them to mount a critique of the normative function of the amateur or nonprofessional actor in art cinema and socially committed cinemas. The creation of a generative encounter between actors...
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African Women and Visual Culture: A Sample Syllabus
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 84–117.
Published: 01 September 1995
... of people, most of whom operate largely as “dummies” or
puppets to the cadre of silent Frenchmen who hand out briefcases filled
with banknotes at the beginning of the film.
In the class discussion, one area of interest may be the director’s
decision to use nonprofessional actors...
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Hip-Hop Cinema in France
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 77–97.
Published: 01 May 2001
....
9. It is interesting to point out that both Chibane and Ghorab-Volta
were able to find nonprofessional actors for all the roles except
for the fathers. The problem of representing patriarchal
authority recurs here again at the level...
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Immaterial Child Labor: Media Advocacy, Autoethnography, and the Case of Born into Brothels
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
Published: 01 December 2011
... by capitalizing on the ethnographic authenticity of the “real”
street children recruited in this film as nonprofessional actors — a
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technique employed again with great success by the British direc-
tor Danny Boyle in his critically acclaimed Slumdog Millionaire (dir.
Danny Boyle...
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The Black Visual Experience: Hendrix, Porn, and Authenticity
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 65–93.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the fantastic and multidimensional conflation of
authenticity and spectatorship that pornography reveals, ultimately
demonstrating how authenticity is a performance affected as much
by the actor as by the spectator.
Founded in 1984, Vivid Entertainment prides itself on “high
quality erotic...
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Pop, Collaboration, Utopia: Bruce Conner's BREAKAWAY in 1960s Los Angeles
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2015
...
“Breakaway from the Everyday”
BREAKAWAY’s opening credits list Basil’s given name, Antonia
Christina Basilotta, instead of her shortened stage name, not only
emphasizing her Italian heritage but also signaling the film as
nonprofessional, distinct from the show business portfolio of Toni
Basil...
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Imagining Television as a Vital Queer Medium: Riot
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in part by giving its characters the same names as some of the more prominent activists involved in gay liberation in Sydney in the seventies. And, in closing, the final credits are preceded by a series of on-set photographs taken during Riot 's production that depict the actors in character alongside...
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Pantomimes of Ecstasy: BeautifulAgony.com and the Representation of Pleasure
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
... commonplace and can be found
on most adult Web sites, though much content billed as amateur
on the Internet involves paid actors who have appeared in multiple
productions. Even when the term amateur is not used explicitly,
the industry gestures toward it with new subgenres. The amateur
status...
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No Woman Is an Object: Realizing the Feminist Collaborative Video
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 71–97.
Published: 01 December 2003
... and feminism see
women as complex, worthy selves—they produce subjects. In
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Camera Obscura 54, Volume 18, Number 3
Published by Duke University Press
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feminist collaborative video, the medium (inexpensive, debased,
nonprofessional...
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Spectacles of History: Race Relations, Melodrama, and the Science Fiction/Disaster Film
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 109–153.
Published: 01 September 2002
... explosion about the romance on
the Titanic, however, saw no such complication. The television
and magazine publicity (and the best-selling Celine Dion sound-
track) focused on creating exalted portraits of the young actors
and a sublime romantic version of the affair. None of the contem-
porary...
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History Is Not a Matter of Generations: Interview with Harun Farocki
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 47–75.
Published: 01 May 2001
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tates and the office workers on the phone are unbearable. Brecht
himself said about his teaching plays (Lehrstücke) that actually
only his actors could learn from them. The same is true for role-
playing games on which the curtain never lifts. And from...
