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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 64–87.
Published: 01 September 1990
...Ann Banfield Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 La Table servie [Set Table] (Niciphore Niipce, ca. 1826)
L‘Imparfait de l’objectif:
the Imperfect of the Object Glass
Ann Banfield
The real, when it has reached the mind, is already...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 71–97.
Published: 01 December 2003
... Is an Object:
Realizing the Feminist
Collaborative Video
Alexandra Juhasz
No woman is filmed as an object; everyone is a subject who
combines and presents physical, emotional, intellectual, and
political selves.
—Julia Lesage, “The Political Aesthetics of
the Feminist Documentary Film...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 57–81.
Published: 01 May 2018
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in Yellowness as Transpacific Technology: Cinematic Regimes of Race between Japan and Brazil
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 2. Ayako as cinematic surface and animated object. Osaka Elegy (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1936)
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 111–135.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and theorist. Camera Obscura 2008 Brian Wall is an assistant professor of cinema at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is currently working on a manuscript exploring Theodor Adorno's conceptions of spirit in relation to cinema.
“Jackie Treehorn Treats Objects
Like Women...
View articletitled, “Jackie Treehorn Treats <span class="search-highlight">Objects</span> Like Women!”: Two Types of Fetishism in The Big Lebowski
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 63–93.
Published: 01 May 2024
... antiheroines Camille Preaker and Mare Sheehan from HBO's Sharp Objects and Mare of Easttown and argues that the antiheroine is premised on a disturbed mother-daughter dynamic that complexly manifests in two key opposing ways: in Sharp Objects , as the destruction of both self and other via a dynamic...
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View articletitled, The Perverted Ancestry of the Antiheroine: Bad Mothers and Unruly Daughters in Sharp <span class="search-highlight">Objects</span> and Mare of Easttown
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in The Perverted Ancestry of the Antiheroine: Bad Mothers and Unruly Daughters in Sharp Objects and Mare of Easttown
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. Amy Adams as Camille Preaker and Patricia Clarkson as her mother, Adora Crellin. Sharp Objects (HBO, 2018)
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
... contracts to repeat and return to the object of desire. In arguing that the ao dai (long dress) photograph as a copy-image of a lost or disappearing referent is central to a contemporary diasporic erotic — a feeling-state of disrupted history rendered (and recovered) in mythical terms through love...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the classic romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle (dir. Nora Ephron, US, 1993), this article suggests that in fact romantic comedy may itself be considered a melancholy genre. Insofar as the heterosexual coupling that typically ends romantic comedies forecloses same-sex desire, the foreclosed objects exist...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 93–127.
Published: 01 December 2015
... camera movement. Magnification of ordinary percepts, or a general and unpleasant accenting of objects in the visual field, is a common complaint in the phenomenology of mental illness, for example, in hysteria, obsession, phobia, and paranoia. An illness removes something from its ordinary context...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to voiceless—or underrepresented—persons or things. This article contends that the material practice of ventriloquism has more to offer to documentary cinema than a convenient (and typically negative) metaphor for the deceptive synchrony of sound and image or the embattled relation between subject and object...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 35–61.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Cara Dickason Abstract This article analyzes episodes of early science fiction anthology series to examine how fears of television's ability to turn its gaze on the home circulated around women, both as objects of surveillance and as television spectators, in the 1950s and 1960s. Media historians...
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 5. A 1980 screenshot of Smalltalk-80 running on the Xerox Alto computer. Note here the continued grammar of the desktop metaphor used in the interface, with overlapping windows and the “folder tabs” at the top of each window. Courtesy of the PARC Library, © PARC. CHM Object ID 500004472
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 161–183.
Published: 01 September 2009
... to which gameplay can exist independent of playable protagonists, and the gendering of video-game goals and objectives are considered. Despite conforming to certain masculine activities—fighting, collecting weaponry, exploring and dominating space— Silent Hill complicates such aspects through the game...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 177–207.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Beth Coleman Is it possible to think of race as a disinterested object of our delight, as opposed to one that is overinscribed? Can race survive as something other than the remnant of a traumatic history? In this essay, I ask the reader to consider race as technology. This proposition moves race...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 123–130.
Published: 01 September 2011
... we discuss in our essays. Rather than seeing those complex negotiations as a drawback, we suggest that these very tensions have created this culturally rich form. It is this complexity that makes vidding an enticing object for academic analysis, but even more so an important aesthetic and political...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 131–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., and communitarian constraints we discuss in our essays. Rather than seeing those complex negotiations as a drawback, we suggest that these very tensions have created this culturally rich form. It is this complexity that makes vidding an enticing object for academic analysis, but even more so an important aesthetic...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 139–146.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., and communitarian constraints we discuss in our essays. Rather than seeing those complex negotiations as a drawback, we suggest that these very tensions have created this culturally rich form. It is this complexity that makes vidding an enticing object for academic analysis, but even more so an important aesthetic...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 95–135.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of her own spectatorship of the sexploitation cinema represents a way of imagining female spectatorship as a form of cinephile wandering through the historical frame — and through a cathexis on the world of forgotten bodies and discarded objects, both material and cinematic. Elena Gorfinkel...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 77–107.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... In adoption, various vectors of familial and racial ideology meet: affirmative adoption narratives propose a family structure that does not insist on limited, and limiting, roles for women. To that end, I ask how a nonpathological depiction of adoption, in which the biological mother is not an object of scorn...
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