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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 61–93.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., the female protagonist Deoksun (Hyeri) and her friends Jeonghwan, Sunwoo, Taek, and Dongryong, whose eyes are glued to the TV. To convey the movie's nostalgic atmosphere, the camera pans slowly, its searching gaze passing from one artifact in the room to another, seemingly re-creating 1980s Korea. Viewers...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and personally productive, offering nostalgic alternatives to both the gay cultural attachment to masculinity and the powerful historical narratives about the inherent abjection of queerness at midcentury. However, even as Infamous exposes, celebrates, and aestheticizes Capote’s effeminacy and the male...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 161–179.
Published: 01 May 1997
... representations of our own cur-
rent experience. l
I find this claim intriguing, and while I am uneasy with the implicit
notion that nostalgia is a postmodern, or, at the very most, a modern
(that is, a twentieth-century) phenomenon, I think that the nostalgic
reworking of past history...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 129–167.
Published: 01 December 2007
... or even know of all of her many performative selves,
let alone her work as a painter, photographer, videomaker, and
writer. It is truly breathtaking to be exposed to the range and
audacity of her work.
Retrospectives, naturally, cast a nostalgic pall over an artist’s
work...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 165–175.
Published: 01 December 2016
... have been wiped away by gentrifi-
cation. Perhaps most challenging, the collectively produced form
of Valencia: The Movie/s provides both nostalgic and antinostalgic
representations of the world of the book: it displays a nostalgic
ethos in its romantic longing for a past San Francisco...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 199–225.
Published: 01 May 1997
... family have fulfilled one
American dream precisely by selling out another. That is, people come
to Ray’s field to participate in the nostalgic enterprise of re-living, for
the first time, an America in which the intact nuclear family continues
206 to thrive on the wholesome family-run farm...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., the beautiful
dress and all that it stands for. In Ao Trang, the photograph and
the calendar as a collocation of photographs are apparatuses for
both nostalgic return and futural anticipation, in which opposites
such as presence and absence, singularity and repetition, stasis
and movement, death...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 139–159.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., into a vision of a single meditative hermit, alone in his small hut, thus turning a site of modern displacement into a nostalgic image of rustic charm.1 Nineteenth- century Gothic literature tended to freeze the ruin in place, often sealing it off as a singular site of evil from the larger society that produced...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 108–143.
Published: 01 September 2006
...-consciously apoliti-
cal. Yet these light nostalgic comedies are innovative neither in
content nor style. Rentschler admits to a nostalgia for the critical
aesthetics of the New German Cinema (261), yet his character-
ization of post-Wall German cinema is nevertheless convincing.
Directors...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 47–77.
Published: 01 January 1988
... transferred to the new broadcast media.
This study focuses on the television comedy variety show and musical
variety show which featured guest stars from Hollywood. These formats
represent two arenas of nostalgic return, not only to earlier entertainment
traditions (to vaudeville...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 72–85.
Published: 01 September 1983
... would ever do it-they just couldn't fathom.
LR: I thought the film was both nostalgic and cynical. Again remember
your treatment of language-for example, the preacher says, "There will
come a time when you shall know it" and the girls' voicessay, "That's not
true, look " Do...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
...-
bling a book cover. Largely replaced by photographs in the six-
ties, the illustrated covers of the pulps derive their nostalgic
appeal from the now outmoded aesthetics of drawing, which
allows for melodramatic exaggeration.
Forbidden Love heightens the affective power of its fantasy...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2012
...
to convey the concept’s meaning. The two letters and two punctua-
tion marks thus serve to investigate the roots of nostalgia, deftly
articulating presence and absence (the very qualities that render
homesickness bittersweet), positioning the video as both nostalgic
and meta- nostalgic...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and
focuses on current racial dynamics of the bar. Following a white
woman waxing nostalgic about the familial and community envi-
ronment of the early bar scene, Brooke hones in on a conversa-
tion between an interracial couple. Prompted by the question...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 57–91.
Published: 01 December 2004
... nostalgic for my warped
dub at home. For me, part of the experience was missing.
Analog reproduction of the text, rather than destroying
the original’s aura, actually reconstructs it. Materially, the fallout
of the image and sound mark each successive copy as an illicit
object, a forbidden...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 131–157.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the heterosexual
wedding, stabilizes a nostalgic sense of community tradition and
belonging for its diasporic audience. Simultaneously, it addresses
itself to a “Eurocentric liberal feminist audience” who can consume
an ethnographic spectacle of cultural tradition and diversity, a non
threatening...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 128–153.
Published: 01 January 1988
... of yesterday's shows,
nostalgic fondness for former styles, and obsessive announcements of its
own historical weight, television contributes to both the dissolution of the
aura of tradition and the attempt to reformulate a new historical con•
nection. History is constantly invoked...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 1–39.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and, later, as the Little Colonel.
Namesakes: The Genealogy of Our Little Colonels
Through her series, The Little Colonel, Annie Fellows Johnston
(born in 1853 in Indiana) became one of the most popular South-
ern writers at the turn of the century. Like Griffith, Johnston was
nostalgic...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 27–55.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of unhappiness that has left his marriage
on the brink of ruin. The apparent disarray of their personal rela-
tionship signals the nostalgic and conservative gender politics of
the film. We learn that Audrey is a physical therapist and that she
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deterred David from pursuing a career...
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