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Making Television Live: Mediating Biopolitics in Obesity Programming
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
... convergence, the article maps the supplemental transactions between the medial inscription of liveness and the biopolitical imperative to make live. It argues that reality TV's preoccupation with the obese body functions as a mechanism for the negotiation and containment of the medium's own anxieties over its...
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Woman-House: Architecture, Gender and Hybridity in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 126–150.
Published: 01 September 1996
... of compulsory domesticity and strictly policed
gender roles has not been eliminated; indeed, in some instances it has
become more fully entrenched. It is to this problem that I turn my
attention. The ultimate focus of my analysis here will be on the char-
acter of the obese...
Journal Article
Volume Index
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 188–190.
Published: 01 December 2015
... – 59
Misha Kavka
Sex on the Shore: Care and the Ethics of License in Jersey Shore.
No. 88: pp. 101 – 27
Misha Kavka, see Lynne Joyrich, Misha Kavka, and Brenda R. Weber
Michael Litwack
Making Television Live: Mediating Biopolitics in Obesity
Programming. No. 88: pp. 41 – 69...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2015
... with the situation of women to confront wider issues that are explicitly and implicitly gendered, such as obesity, addiction, sexual license, and superb grooming to name just a few of the themes discussed in this issue. Andi: Yes, what are the themes of the issue? How would you describe the issue s goals...
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See Me Now
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 66–83.
Published: 01 September 1995
... of Aunt Jemima (1972) uses the familiar
spectacle of the happy mammy. A version of the fictional character
created as a justification for Black slavery in the United States, Aunt
Jemima exhibits these general characteristics as the head female house
slave: she is obese, eager to serve, made...
Journal Article
Violence and the Gaze in Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl ( À ma sœur! )
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., will prove all
too true). While many commentaries emphasize Anaïs’s obesity
and lack of sexual appeal as negative reflections of the spectacle
of Elena’s beauty, what is more important is the contrast between
Anaïs’s childlike demeanor and body and the sophisticated sexual
vocabulary she uses...
Journal Article
Mika Rottenberg's Productive Bodies
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 41–73.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the claustrophobically small
“factory” space in which these unusually large women are enclosed;
their unusual physical features — obesity as well as thinness —
could be read in terms of class, not “freakish” fascination; and the
inclusion of two dark-skinned workers — like the prominent role
played...
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The Deaths of Camp
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 52–84.
Published: 01 May 1995
... past her prime? Camp is
Alexis on Dynasty, Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, Elizabeth
Taylor on the cover of Hollywood Babylon II.46 There is a striking
regularity with which aging and the body "too" old, too obese, too
close to death, are hurled onto middle-aged, female star-images like...
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Company Loves Misery
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 58–75.
Published: 01 May 1992
..., the necessity for masculine metacommentary and
masculine control. Annie is made into an obscene figure: her repressive 69
prudishness, her obesity, and the way in which food comes up again
and again in connection with her-the feed, the spilled soup, the scene
of feeding-all point to her right-wing...
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The Cabinet of Dr. Pee-wee: Consumerism and Sexual Terror
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 133–154.
Published: 01 May 1988
... of sexual roles. We have seen how the show lovingly presents
the icons of gay male pornography. And the Playhouse’s ideas about
femininity are equally pop: Miss Yvonne is the Burlesque Queen of
camp theater, her femininity exaggerated into a parody of itself; the
obese Mrs. Steve is the Divine...
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In a Desert Somewhere between Disney and Las Vegas: The Fantasy of Interracial Harmony and American Multiculturalism in Percy Adlon's Bagdad Cafe
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Streese and Kerry Shea read Jasmin
as trapped in “an image constructed by a man: only through
Rudy’s glance/art is Jasmin transformed from obese, unattractive
matron into an erotic mother goddess carrying symbols of fertil-
ity.”9...
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Pressure Points: Political Psychology, Screen Adaptation, and the Management of Racism in the Case-History Genre
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 71–113.
Published: 01 December 2001
...
almost a portrait-gallery of the characteristic figures of our era.”9
Each of these cases, disparate as they may seem, presents a very
similar narrative where the ailing individual—whether homici-
dal, obese, communist, fascist, or schizophrenic—is brought...