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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 61–93.
Published: 01 December 2024
... role in generating communal values and informing an inquiry into the human condition in the contemporary moment. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Camera Obscura 2024 public archaeology Korean TV nostalgia film obsolescence museum culture post-television era remediation...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 41–59.
Published: 01 May 2021
... part of Varda's film corpus and of her feminist investigations of different subjectivities and desires, of the affective worlds of contemporary women and children. It takes shape in her tenderness for Jane Birkin, but also in light of her own clearer thinking about childhood, nostalgia, and fantasy...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 35–79.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of “cover” and “lack” that traverse and structure diverse fields of inquiry from psychoanalysis to architectural theory to dance history to film criticism, this paper argues that there is a profound nostalgia, rather than refutation, between the clean nudity of modern objects and the ornate nakedness of so...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
Published: 01 May 2023
... between form and autobiographical dimensions in her films that resonates with my own viewing experience. I would not characterize my avid viewership of Akerman films as first- or second-generation cinephilia, described in Elsaesser's terms of anxious nostalgia or as cult fandom that desires to know...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 67–79.
Published: 01 September 1988
... of a film illustrates his models of schizophrenia and pastiche. He cites films that take on these themes in a stylistic nostalgia (Chinatown, The Conformist). But in a larger sense the cinema is an apparatus which conflates the time of production/the time of the fic• tion...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 108–143.
Published: 01 September 2006
.../Postmodern? In addition to the nonlinear narrative elements I have mentioned, postmodern film style is characterized by formalism, pastiche, and overcoded citations of filmic and cultural moments that in Fredric Jameson’s terms engender a “nostalgia for the present.”5 In other words...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 226–242.
Published: 01 May 1997
... nostalgia film-nostalgia not for a historic era, but for the prehistoric itself-the film offers comforting showdown scenarios. Though the team is unable to repair the hard-wiring of the facility (just as individuals cannot combat the military-industrial complex), Jess, in his mechanical “bobcat...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 25–59.
Published: 01 December 2007
... of American cinema, worked to silence or assuage with the resolution of heteronormative romance. More often than not in the context of 1970s film, crit- ics confine Badlands within the model of the so-called nostalgia film. Marsha Kinder compares Badlands with two other films...
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 30–49.
Published: 01 September 1999
... the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival of the same year. "Let's Start Over Again": Nostalgia for a Mythic Origin 33 Let me begin by suggesting that Happy Together can be seen as a nostalgic film. This may surprise some readers for the simple fact that nostalgia is most...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 113–143.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Hiram Perez Building on feminist and queer scholarship on the relationship of film spectatorship to subjectivity, this essay conjectures subaltern spectatorships of the two US film adaptations of Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel Imitation of Life as a means of tracing the impossibly entangled discourses...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 161–179.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Pat Gill Technostalgia: Making the Future Past Perfect Pat Gill In Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson argues that in the postmodern age nostalgia has replaced history as the way of understanding and responding to our personal...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 4–40.
Published: 01 September 1993
..., nostalgia in the film is 28 an “epiphenomenon” less of postmodernism as such than Reaganism (where the last epithet indicates a determinate psycho-social content).67 In other words, if the Reagan dream was predicated on the promise-in the face of a decidedly more competitive version...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 129–167.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Alisa Lebow Camera Obscura 2007 Alisa Lebow teaches film studies and video production at Brunel University in London. Her book, First Person Jewish , on Jewish autobiographical film, is forthcoming in 2008. As a filmmaker her work includes For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 73–101.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., and recycled them to her own ends. Hence Baker’s own iconicity comes to lend itself to cannibalization, to a reworking of nostalgia for potentially liberatory redeployments. Karim Ainouz’s film Madame Satã is based on the mem- oirs of João Francisco dos Santos (1900 – 1976), the son of slaves...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 274–295.
Published: 01 September 1991
... in critical discussions that consistently elide questions of race, class and gender under a series of fascinations. These fascinations fix on the auteur himself, on “psychosexual kicks,” on film historical references, on urban ethnographic impulses, on collective nostalgia...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2001
.... In their reviews of the film, Patricia Leonardi and Martha Gever charge Last Call at Maud’s with nostalgia as well, though both associate nostalgia with reactionary politics. See Leonardi, “Last Call at Maud’s,” Cineaste 20.1 (1993): 46; and Gever, “What...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
... about the invention of photogra- phy and film, via a continuity of form that demands our attention to forms of auratic or affective objecthood that do not stem from an object’s originality in any given iteration but from precisely its inimitable reproducibility.3 The copy-­image of the beloved...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 41–74.
Published: 01 September 1993
..., that he identifies with and seeks to attract. l2 Tarantino’s “auteur” status is closely coincident with his cult status for the following reason: the filmmaker’s persona and his films embody a nostalgia for a 70s that is continually circu- lating in television, video...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of English at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video (Duke University Press, 2002), the editor of Screening Asian Americans (Rutgers University Press, 2002), and a co-editor of Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity...
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 162–163.
Published: 01 December 1984
...- uously adheres to the correct positions on family and motherhood, and unconditionally rejects, without nostalgia or regret, all other positions? Reisman writes of Keller’s Dazcghters of Chaos: “The film is also unclear as it suggests a reluctance to negate traditional notions...