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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 169–177.
Published: 01 January 1988
... Simpson's
(editor), Parents Talking Television
(London: Comedia, 1987)
Andrew Ross
Everyone, I think, knows what Andy Warhol meant when he said that "a
whole day of life is like a whole day of television." Instant recognition of
a home truth. That is what Pop philosophy aims...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2017
...: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (2011). © 2017 by Camera Obscura 2017 horror reassurance Jennifer Kent parenting speech acts Figure 1. Rituals of reassurance: Amelia (Essie Davis) and
Samuel (Noah Wiseman) in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook
(Australia, 2014)
Parenting through Horror...
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in Reading Border through Desire: Queer Indigenous Theory, Nordic Settler Colonialism, and Trans Aesthetics
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 3. Tina at the cemetery where their parents and kin are buried. Gräns ( Border , dir. Ali Abbasi, Sweden, 2018). Used with permission from Nadim Carlsen
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 65–89.
Published: 01 September 2011
... roots to a collection of British programs offering advice to parents in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as well as to the longer-standing British tradition of public service broadcasting that sought to “better its audience,” we argue that the program departs from that legacy in its commercialization...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 77–107.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Dijana Jelača Adoption is often used as a tool, both literally and figuratively, for a fantasy of rescue — and therefore it is a suitable device for normativizing parenting, particularly mothering, as a measure of moral nobility. In this article, the contested nature of prominent cultural...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 33–63.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Matt Delmont This essay examines how housewife and political activist Irene McCabe drew national television news coverage to protests against busing for school desegregation. While thousands of parents across the nation raised their voices against busing, none received the same level of national...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Beyoncé staged through collaborations with Warsan Shire, a British poet born in Kenya to Somali parents; Awol Erizku, an Ethiopian-born American artist raised in the Bronx; and Daniela Vesco, a Costa Rican photographer. This collective of artists forge a black aesthetics at a heightened level...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2023
... constraining of social transgression more generally, punishing Mikey Carver (Elijah Wood) for the sins of his parents and wider community in a way that can be read fruitfully through Jacques Derrida's “Plato's Pharmacy,” the film produces a narrative of profound conservatism even as it courts progressive...
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in Lock Them Up: The Cold Conservatism of Ang Lee's The Ice Storm
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 4. Elijah Wood and Jamey Sheridan as Mikey and Jim Carver; accidental death is rendered as punishment for the sins of the parents and wider community. The Ice Storm (dir. Ang Lee, US, 1997)
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 169–193.
Published: 01 May 1988
.... But a
Geertzian “thick description” (Geertz 1973) of how a limited group
responds to a favored show can illustrate how social factors shape the 171
kinds of meanings produced and how children’s characteristic viewing
strategies reflect the process of making sense of program materials.
As a parent, I...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 111–135.
Published: 01 May 2014
... marriage, queer parenting,
and transformations in reproduction and family formation — the
film seemed to rehearse and model same-sex marriage and the
queer family for a wide viewership. It did so by packaging them in
the form of what we might call a model family — two parents (com-
plete...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 119–129.
Published: 01 December 2003
... from her mouth to her parents’ mouths, slowly con-
suming it until it has disappeared. The footage is run backward,
however, so the audience actually watches the onion being recon-
structed by the tearing, kissing faces.
Chang’s short films (some in collaboration with filmmaker
Anie “Super-8...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
... it,
and they live in denial for many years, the parents, and prefer not
to address the problem.’ ”30 The informant role asked of Vergara
produces a supplementary narrative of homophobic Latinas and
Latinos through the liberal register of culture as the racialized
subtext of the article’s main story...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 60–91.
Published: 01 May 1996
..." and "who the hell are you" T-shirts from Cam-
bridge Elementary.9
The early 1990s were a time of political resurgence for conservative
discourses on traditional "family values," which were sometimes artic-
ulated around concerns about youthful respect for parental authority .10
Such discourses...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 132–145.
Published: 01 September 1983
... family vacationing in Sardinia as the parents' marriage
falls apart. It ends on a less happy note for the youngest child. 137
1982 Kraftprobe [Test ofStrength}, 90 min., 35mm, color; distributor: Filmwelt
Verleih.
The mother of 15 year old Paulina falls ill and leaves for a lengthy...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 77–105.
Published: 01 September 2009
... it as an institu-
tion. Marriage is not the natural, inevitable outcome of Jutka’s
love for András. It is as if Jutka has read Engels and is aware of
the history of the institution and its unavoidable traps.6 A classic
“meet the parents” scene dramatizes her decision making. Later,
the scene...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 77–97.
Published: 01 May 2001
... to immigrant parents, it nonethe-
less has a political connotation. The term originated in the 1980s
in the context of the founding of numerous organizations, such
as SOS Racisme, France-Plus, and Radio Beur, and in the mount-
ing of rather...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 6–35.
Published: 01 December 1986
... and/or revolutionary future-
perhaps no future at all. What they delivered, however, is something
quite other than radical.
Rosemary’s baby has gone on to grow up in the horror film, inscrib-
ing dramas in which those negative aspects of childhood and parent-
hood repressed by bourgeois mythology...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 120–121.
Published: 01 December 1980
...Paula Gladstone © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 Coney Island, followed by Leopard Lady
Paula Gladstone
I simply have a love affair with Coney Island. I lived there most of my life. My
parents still live there. My grandparents died there. I’ve walked every street,
inspected...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 211–215.
Published: 01 May 1979
... in a language not his native
one, carefully bringing forth the pieces of his story. In a train station
4 Les Rendez-Vow d’Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978)
214 Anna meets (by chance?) a friend of her parents who has moved from
Belgium to Germany, and who says she never felt comfortable...
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