1-14 of 14 Search Results for

nonverbal communication

Save search
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article

Intimate Connections: Alternative Communication Threads in Nina Sobell’s Video Performances and Installations (1974–82)

Cristina Albu
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 39–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8085111
Published: 01 May 2020
...Cristina Albu Through her versatile use of video technology, Nina Sobell explores nonverbal means of communication that interfere with normative modes of behavior and closely regulated interpersonal relationships. Deeply informed by the pursuit of intimate connections, her practice fosters...
View article PDF
Journal Article

“Sometimes It Seems You’re in Another World”: Afrocentric Feminisms of the LA Rebellion

Jamie Ann Rogers
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 125–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8359552
Published: 01 September 2020
... Rite of Purification, is an experi- mental meditation on embodied ritual practice, intuition, and nonverbal communication within a diasporic space that reflects long histories of displacement of African and African- descended peoples. McCullough later reprinted a version of Water Ritual #1 in her...
View article PDF
Journal Article

Sex Out of Sync: Christmas on Earth 's and Couch 's Queer Sound Tracks

Lucas Hilderbrand
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2209916
Published: 01 September 2013
..., but instead recorded communal love and sex.” Rubin shot the film with five friends over the course of twenty-­four hours during a single weekend in June 1963 and edited the film over the course of three months.21 Ara Osterweil, who has emerged as the preeminent film scholar of Rubin’s long...
View article PDF
Journal Article

Aural Topographies of Migration in Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche

Angelica Fenner
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 93–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-016
Published: 01 December 2007
... Children of immigrants, and that would include me, often don’t know their parents’ history. This is the frst time that many have been able to communicate with one another. In effect, it’s a form of group therapy for parents, for children, and also for French society. Maghrebi immigrants who arrived...
View article PDF
Journal Article

General Bibliography

Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 336–372.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-336
Published: 01 December 1989
.... “Difference.” Screen 19, no. 3 (1978): 51-112. -. Questions of Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 198 1. Henley, Nancy. Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1977. Hennegan, Alison. “On Becoming a Lesbian Reader.” Sweet Dreams...
View article PDF
Journal Article

A Permeable Practice: Shortbus and the Politics of Cinematic Collaboration

Corinn Columpar
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 5–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454507
Published: 01 May 2016
... to the community and, in the process, to yoke questions of textuality to that which features prominently in cultural studies: an understanding of media as a site for not only self-­expression or even creative partnering but also community building, social networking, and movement mobilization. Insofar...
View article PDF
Journal Article

Raised Fists: Politics, Technology, and Embodiment in 1970s French Feminist Video Collectives

Ros Murray
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 93–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454441
Published: 01 May 2016
... move- ments, persuaded her that the Portapak was an indispensable tool that would revolutionize all forms of communication. Roussopou- los had no training or interest whatsoever in film, but, accompa- nied by Genet, she went directly to the shop on Boulevard Sébas- topol, deposited her check...
View article PDF
Journal Article

Bodies in Water: Disability Cinemas and Creatures of the Sea

Emma Ben Ayoun
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 115–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013646
Published: 01 December 2022
... in a lineage of ableist production practices: they feature able-bodied actresses (Marion Cotillard and Sally Hawkins, respectively) in the roles of disabled characters, and The Shape of Water , despite its emphasis on American Sign Language and the challenges of communicating nonverbally in a world...
FIGURES | View All (4)
View article PDF
Journal Article

A Problem of Fit : Athina Rachel Tsangari and Greek “Weird Wave” Cinema

Eleni Palis
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 59–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9787014
Published: 01 September 2022
....” Similarly, in another scene at the hospital, Marina ravenously eats and then promptly vomits, communicating her distress at her father's declining health. In short, Tsangari invokes various nonverbal, mouth-centered modes of communication. During their opening kiss, Marina's mouth measures her relationship...
FIGURES | View All (4)
View article PDF
Journal Article

Performing Essentialism: Reassessing Barbara Hammer's Films of the 1970s

Greg Youmans
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727473
Published: 01 December 2012
... • Camera Obscura Figure . Jen Smith, Magick and the Gay Counter Culture (US, Digital video. DVD still pastoral and ritual qualities of the video harken back to the late s and s — a heyday of rural hippie communes and pagan rites. At the same time, the feather piercing seems to locate...
View article PDF
Journal Article

Of Housewives and Saints: Abjection, Transgression, and Impossible Mourning in Poison and Safe

Laura Christian
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 93–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-19-3_57-93
Published: 01 December 2004
... of the Beacon fam- ily—an image that positions Richie squarely within the classic nuclear-familial triad, at the pivot point of an oedipal triangle— and a shaky track-in to the Beacons’ front door, as the commenta- tor asks: “Who was Richie Beacon?” Although the members of Richie’s community...
View article PDF
Journal Article

Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together

Julia Leyda, Nicole Seymour
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 131–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11207841
Published: 01 September 2024
... an online community for asexually identified individuals (“aces”) and increasing public understanding of asexuality. Canadian psychologist Anthony Bogaert's numerous academic articles and his public-facing book Understanding Asexuality aimed to make space for the study of asexuality within the domain...
FIGURES | View All (6)
View article PDF
Journal Article

Regretting Nothing, or Regretting Everything? Postfeminism, Femininity, and Regret in Miss Austen Regrets

Jessica Taylor
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 41–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11207802
Published: 01 September 2024
... responsibility, postfeminist subjects are also expected to demonstrate a certain level of relational responsibility. Marnina Gonick, for example, explores this pressure through interviews with a small group of twelve- to fourteen-year-old girls who participated in a “school-community project” in Toronto...
FIGURES
View article PDF
Journal Article

Conceptions and Contraceptions of the Future: Terminator 2 , The Matrix , and Alien Resurrection

A. Samuel Kimball
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 69–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-17-2_50-69
Published: 01 September 2002
... warriors. Disappointed in Neo’s juvenile nonverbal gesture, Agent Smith relegates Neo to a position comparable to that of an infant unable to speak: he causes Neo’s mouth to seal and disappear. The loss of his mouth is an overdetermined motif in the film, for the subtext of The Matrix concerns...
View article PDF