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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 25–59.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Lindsey Green-Simms This essay examines the aesthetic dimensions of the “occult melodramas” of West African video-films by discussing how filmmakers use the technology of video to recreate the sensuous impact of daily rumors that speak to spiritual and socioeconomic anxieties. Given...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
... imaginary and constitutes a contemporary horror subcycle wherein the well-worn idiom of trauma is replaced by more abstract and disembodied threats. In dialogue with Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff's concept of “occult economies,” this article explores the ways in which the franchise's found-footage...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 129–157.
Published: 01 May 1995
... of the Meiji period in
which playwrights began to use contemporary settings and "added the
new dramatic subject of social and political struggle.t"" The "moral
occult" of most japanese melodrama, "the domain of operative spir-
itual values which is both indicated within...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 181–183.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Voice. No. 81: pp. 69 – 99
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182 • Camera Obscura
Lindsey Green-Simms
Occult Melodramas: Spectral Affect and West African Video-Film.
No. 80: pp. 25 – 59
John Greyson
Pinkface. No. 80: pp. 145 – 153
Kelly Hankin
LUNAFEST on Campus. No. 81: pp. 159 – 167
Kristen Hatch...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 188–190.
Published: 01 December 2015
...
Linda Liu
Occult Anxieties and the Recessionary Imaginary in the Paranormal
Activity Franchise. No. 90: pp. 61 – 91
Diana Adesola Mafe
Race and the First-Person Shooter: Challenging the Video Gamer in
BioShock Infinite. No. 89: pp. 89 – 123
Mauro Resmini
Reframing the New French...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 4–14.
Published: 01 May 1997
..., The Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (New York: Crescent
Books, 1985).
9. Reiss writes, “The production of discourse, its objects, and its relation
14 by the Z of enunciation that originated it, in secret, in power, and with
the complicity of a knowing elite, was gradually occulted...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media,
and Gender in Kinshasa (New York: Berghahn Books, 2012). On
the “occult melodrama,” see Lindsey Green-Simms, “Occult
Melodramas: Spectral Affect and West African Video-Film,”
AIDS in the City • 57...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 120–147.
Published: 01 May 1993
...-
the misplaced children of the patriarch, the patriarch’s own occulted
identity as persecutor of the dead father, the outlaw in disguise at the
banquet, and the final darkness in which “everybody got hold of
everybody else and took them for somebody besides.” Although...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 113–143.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and suffering/sympathy, effectively
impeding any more profound interrogation of how injustice is
sanctioned and institutionalized. The revaluation of melodrama
as a discourse of moral and racial legibilities “occult[ed]” by its
very ordinariness — hidden in plain sight like Edgar...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 176–192.
Published: 01 May 1979
... - M: In terms of mythologizing, I think VeVk made the point
that had to be made, that someone can tell you a story about Maya,
some mumbo jumbo thing, and what it does is reinforce everyone’s
stereotypes of her, or of anyone or anything that is occult, or left, or
new...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Adrienne Rich calls “malign
occult influences . . . vulnerable to or emanating evil” to the phe-
nomenon of female reproduction.12 Just as parturition is construed
as a “ritual state” necessitating the intervention of priests, shamans,
and the like because the mother is necessarily impure...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 161–179.
Published: 01 May 1997
... lived possibil-
ity of experiencing history in some active way. It cannot therefore be said
to produce this occultation of the present by its own formal power, but
rather merely to demonstrate . . . the enormity of a situation in which we
seem increasingly incapable of fashioning...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 180–198.
Published: 01 May 1997
..., which, on the one hand, exhibits a renewed interest in the
occult, and, on the other, maintains a sceptical outlook. It is precisely
this crack between faith and despair which Rice’s vampire narratives
exploit. At one and the same time they offer the “truth” about vam...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to the local tribe. As such they were devourers of men. But when they were attached to the local tribe, they acted as guardians and manifested themselves as animals, fish, birds or reptiles. Strictly speaking, these were not spirits but occult powers created by the psychic force of ancient tribal tohunga...
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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 157–187.
Published: 01 September 2015
...
lie to the committee? To all of these questions the answer is maybe,
but probably not. Hayden did complain to HUAC that Commu-
nist Party members believe that “they have the key, by some occult
power, to know what is best for people,” and that “when I learned
about this and began to digest...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., on- and off-line, by means of copious,
redundant hyperlinks to works he has researched and to his own
exhibitions, performances, and written texts. His interest in and
research on obscure works by the historical avant-garde, alterna-
tive music groups, and esoteric occult practitioners are navigated...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 106–128.
Published: 01 May 1995
..., Tiefland's concept of
transcendence is a simplistic and personal one, not the occult manifesto
of Das blaue Licht. Indeed, Renata Berg-Pan finds Tiefland to be weak
because "Riefenstahl no longer had the same relationship to the topic
which had compelled her to take it up in 1934. She had outgrown...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 149–179.
Published: 01 December 2002
...
and effect onto events constitutes its occulting power: if the
“antagonism” itself, whatever it may be, exists or occurs precisely
as a traumatic rupture of the symbolic order, narrative’s
secondary revision reorganizes the rupture within the terms of
the very symbolic that it disturbed...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 141–169.
Published: 01 September 2004
... from those early experiences.” In fact, Eva’s charac-
ter in Shoes, Weber claimed, had been “drawn directly from a life
filled with the keenest sort of drama and pathos.”13 By occulting
her script’s genealogy in Jane Addams’s mission, pointing instead
toward its origins in her own lived experience...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet (149, 158).
Thus as Legend of Maya Deren observes, Deren seems to have “had
at least a passing familiarity with the Cabala” (159). This interest
in Jewish occultism relates to Deren’s later fascination with voo-
doo, if only peripherally and unconsciously...
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