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Child/Alien/Father: Patriarchal Crisis and Generic Exchange

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Vivian Sobchack
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 6–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-3_15-6
Published: 01 December 1986
...” American bourgeois family-an ideological as well as interpersonal structure characterized, as Robin Wood so frequently points out, by its cellular construction, its institutionalization of capitalist and patriarchal relations and values (among them, monogamy, heterosexuality...
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Responses to “Male Trouble”: The Patriarch is Not (Just) a Man

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Thomas DiPiero
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 101–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9-1-2_25-26-101
Published: 01 September 1991
...Thomas DiPiero Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Responses to “Male Trouble” The Patriarch is Not (Just) a Man Thomas DiPiero I have always been curious-and, I must admit, a little bit anxious- to read about men’s desires. Curious, because...
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The Perverted Ancestry of the Antiheroine: Bad Mothers and Unruly Daughters in Sharp Objects and Mare of Easttown

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Eleanore Gardner, Alyson Miller
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 63–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11024070
Published: 01 May 2024
... that is monstrous and devouring; and in Mare of Easttown , as a source of reconciliation and healing through a redemptive vision of the maternal. Both series confront the idea that the antiheroine's moral failings are a result of bad mothering, a familiar patriarchal trope that is simultaneously challenged...
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Temporal Surfacing: Mosori Monika (1970) and Chick Strand's Cross-Cultural Explorations

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Ekin Pinar
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 31–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013604
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ekin Pinar Abstract This article considers how the temporality at work in Chick Strand's film Mosori Monika (US, 1970) breaks with the patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist narratives of genealogy, progress, and production. In Mosori Monika , an experimental ethnographic film that documents...
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“Actors Simply Explode”: To Act in the Cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

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Manuel Ramos-Martínez
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 93–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592477
Published: 01 September 2016
...Manuel Ramos-Martínez This essay examines the political significance of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's work with actors in their cinema practice. Straub and Huillet's acting methodology is an essential aspect of their cinema and its struggle to undo militaristic, patriarchal...
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Hunting for Easter Eggs in the Dardennes’ Rosetta

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Niels Niessen
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 83–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4336850
Published: 01 May 2018
... tropes, the film ultimately affirms the patriarchal binaries its secular Passion story otherwise challenges. Copyright © 2018 Camera Obscura 2018 Rosetta Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne mind-game film Belgian cinema complex narratives ...
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“Cast Off the Shackles of Yesterday”: Women’s Suffrage in Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins

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Ana Stevenson
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 69–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6923118
Published: 01 September 2018
... they do not seek to discard patriarchal social structures; rather, in the mode of anti-suffrage media, their presence ultimately works to reinforce these very hierarchies and endorse bourgeois respectability. Despite such tensions, many popular commemorations of Mary Poppins assume the film’s...
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Laurel and Hardy Queer the Fraternity: The Comedy Duo and Heterosexual Brotherhood in Sons of the Desert

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Scott Balcerzak
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 97–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2009-016
Published: 01 May 2010
... masculine performance space was challenged both by the development of a clearer heterosexual/homosexual cultural binary and by the instability of patriarchal structures during the first half of the twentieth century. As such, a queering of fraternity materializes in many Laurel and Hardy films...
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“They Can't Do This to Us !”: Alan Alda as (Anti)Feminist Signifier

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Peter Alilunas
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 35–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1415425
Published: 01 December 2011
... hegemonic gender power and patriarchal social structures. Peter Alilunas is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan. © 2011 by Camera Obscura 2011 Sweet Liberty (dir. Alan Alda, US, 1986) publicity photo “They Can’t Do This to Us...
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Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness

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Huike Wen
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2704625
Published: 01 September 2014
... it raised, the drama sacrificed the opportunity to further explore complex emotions and trivialized issues of gender inequality. As a result, the public discourse it created heavily emphasized patriarchal views on sexual ownership while ignoring feminist voices. Huike Wen is an assistant professor...
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Little Red Riding Hood Meets Freud in Lucrecia Martel's Salta Trilogy

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Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 93–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2801529
Published: 01 December 2014
... do not conform to dominant patriarchal values: first during childhood in La Ciénaga ( The Swamp , Argentina, 2001); then during sexual awakening in La niña santa ( The Holy Girl , Argentina, 2004); and finally in adulthood in La mujer sin cabeza ( The Headless Woman , Argentina, 2008). Because...
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Made in Movieland: Imitation, Agency, and Girl Movie Fandom in the 1910s

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Diana W. Anselmo
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 129–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3776890
Published: 01 May 2017
... to the implementation of Hollywood's star system. This article also analyzes the ambivalent modes of representation and address journalists directed at girl spectators and how such modes evidenced the film industry's growing dependence on young female audiences, as well as the broader patriarchal anxiety over girls...
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“Sometimes It Seems You’re in Another World”: Afrocentric Feminisms of the LA Rebellion

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Jamie Ann Rogers
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 125–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8359552
Published: 01 September 2020
..., nonteleological time—register at once the sedimented condition of patriarchal anti-Blackness in the United States and Black feminists’ ongoing projects of freedom that perdure within and despite that condition. In many ways, such representations anticipate contemporary Black feminist grapplings with recent Black...
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A Manifesto for the Broken Machine

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Sarah Sharma
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 171–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8359652
Published: 01 September 2020
... are cast off as broken technologies that need to be replaced and discarded. Using a techno-feminist approach, this article argues that rather than seek justice through inclusion or improvements in representation, there is a feminist politics up for grabs in this patriarchal formulation of feminists...
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Her Body, Her Choice: Tough Girl Affect, Trump Support, and the 2020 Pandemic

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Jenny Stümer
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 165–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278642
Published: 01 May 2023
...-patriarchal agenda of Trump’s neoliberal macho politics. I am interested in the way body and choice evoke white femininity as affective strategy, negotiating a public feeling of privileged belonging to the nation. The article works through the tenets of body, border, and nation as central to this investment...
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Gift or Weapon? Reproductive Decision, the Phenomenology of Pregnancy, and Alien Language in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival

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Naomi Morgenstern
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 103–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278614
Published: 01 May 2023
... Arrival parallels feminist readings of the materiality of pregnancy that deconstruct the self‐possessed or “virile” subject of patriarchal individualism. If Louise's professional services are required by the US government because she has a gift for languages, others, particularly in the representative...
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Pretty: Film Theory, Aesthetics, and the History of the Troublesome Image

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Rosalind Galt
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2009-001
Published: 01 September 2009
... rhetoric of value, proposing that the “pretty” as a recurrent taste category in film reveals an imbrication of gender, sexuality, and race in the construction of the cinematic image itself. Analysis of the pretty's antecedents in histories of art demonstrates how colonial and patriarchal modes of aesthetic...
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Mothers and Daughters: Abjection and the Monstrous-Feminine in Japan's Dark Water and South Korea's A Tale of Two Sisters

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K K Seet
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2009-005
Published: 01 September 2009
... Dark Water (2002) and South Korea's A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), this essay proposes that the current orientation evinces the anxieties of a patriarchal culture denied its sovereignty as the result of a widening gulf between the mythology of the bourgeois family and its actual social manifestations...
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Looking for Something New: Antonioni's La notte and Specters of Femininity

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Sławomir Masłoń
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 115–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9561451
Published: 01 May 2022
... enjoyment. On the narrative level, the capitalist‐patriarchal discourse is incarnated in double complementary figures, both male and female. The male couple consists of a traditional fatherly moralizing figure and a modern mute solipsist, who is also a sexual predator. The female one is constructed out...
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Figure 2. LOGOtv's Facebook posts joke about the queer identities of Bewitched's stars and characters, while FamilyNet's posts emphasize the family-friendly patriarchal nature of the show, highlighting here that its signature opening animations were made by a kid-friendly animation studio.

LOGOtv's Facebook posts joke about the queer identities of Bewitched 's st...

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in Re witched : Retextuality and the Queering of Bewitched > Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 2. LOGOtv's Facebook posts joke about the queer identities of Bewitched 's stars and characters, while FamilyNet's posts emphasize the family-friendly patriarchal nature of the show, highlighting here that its signature opening animations were made by a kid-friendly animation studio. More