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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 75–101.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Priscilla Layne Between 1990 and 1997, Auma Obama, half-sister of Barack Obama, studied at the Berlin Film and Television Academy (DFFB). For her final project, Obama wrote and directed All That Glitters (1993), a short film about Wendo, a Kenyan woman living in Bayreuth, married to a white German...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 177–207.
Published: 01 May 2009
... as a productive tool. Camera Obscura 2009 Beth Coleman is an assistant professor of writing and new media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her forthcoming book is titled Hello Avatar . Senator Barack Obama, “A More Perfect Union” speech,
Philadelphia, 18 March 2008...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., Snoopmaya said that Trump is an awful person, and her teacher agreed, despite his earlier claim that Trump is the best president ever. When Snoopmaya used the argument about Trump putting children in cages to illustrate why she hates him, her teacher said that President Obama also put children in cages...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., such as Dick Cheney endorsing gay marriage before Barack
Obama. As most sitcoms reside in a zone of political neutrality in
regard to party politics — I have no idea whether Carol Brady voted
for Richard Nixon or George McGovern, because The Brady Brunch
was completely uninterested in dramatizing...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
... Mizrahi and Target (2002); and,
of course, the sartorial era of Michelle Obama. For her open and
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enthusiastic support of independent designers and mass-market
fashions, the fashion press has credited Obama with ushering in a
new age of fashion democracy; in fact...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 132–141.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to think of how our memories are formed through experiences in the everyday life, captured by a photographer who could pho- tograph a couple on a July Fourth evening at a carousel images of Black joy, such as images that reflect the hope realized in Presi- dent Obama and images of triumph among people...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 173–197.
Published: 01 September 2023
... such as Idusuyi. Trump built his support by tapping into white male rage and resentment spurred in part by the election of former president Barack Obama. Affective politics shape who is seen as belonging and not belonging. For those who felt that the election of Obama predicted a further disintegration...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2016
... allows for a greater diversity
of experience for a spectator in the space and a sense of even less
synchronization of the voices. In this piece, people discuss vari-
ous prominent but unnamed African American male celebrities
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(news images of Barack Obama, Henry Louis...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 7–35.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and enactments of race as technology that
span philosophical texts and political speeches, cinema practice
and film criticism, art and science. They include Barack Obama’s
2008 speech on race in Pennsylvania, the film The Battle of Algiers,
recent debates on genomics, and James Snead’s theory...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 145–177.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, and Michelle Obama don bedroom walls as proud signifiers of political consciousness. Myriad and magpie citations situate the films’ aspirations as knowing, discerning feminist texts. For their adolescent characters, citing the past is a tactic for imagining yourself...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 107–139.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Issa in front of the mirror then leaving the room as the camera lingers on the mirror—the signature of authorship that frames performance. 46. Interestingly, this verse alludes both to Alanis Morissette and, earlier, to Michelle Obama, both successful women with creative and political power...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 1–35.
Published: 01 May 2013
... to Las Vegas. Aboard their pri-
vate plane, the client and his friends discuss Obama’s candidacy.
Heightening the currency of the conversation, Soderbergh’s digital
cinematography is especially amateurish in the scene. The lighting
is too bright and the camera changes its focus inexplicably...
