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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 93–133.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Raya Morag This essay proposes a new paradigm for cinema trauma studies: the trauma of the perpetrator. Recognizing a current shift in interest from trauma suffered by victims to that suffered by perpetrators, it seeks to break the repression of the abhorrent figure of the perpetrator in cinema...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 191–217.
Published: 01 May 2024
... on access to distinct binaries of male/female, Black/white, and victim/perpetrator to make claims of “accurate” representation—both for sexual assault on television and for women's experience more broadly. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Camera Obscura 2024 feminism television...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 77–107.
Published: 01 May 2020
... on the role of cinema in promoting women’s history. Furthermore, it raises highly controversial subjects, such as how to analyze the layers of gendered silencing surrounding both women’s traumatic history and women perpetrators of these sexual crimes; the influence of former KR cadres within current Cambodian...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 181–183.
Published: 01 December 2012
... McKnight
The Wages of Affluence: The High-Rise Housewife in Japanese Sex
Films. No. 79: pp. 1 – 29
Raya Morag
Perpetrator Trauma and Current Israeli Documentary Cinema.
No. 80: pp. 93 – 133
Roya Rastegar
Evolving Narrative Structures Forge New Cine-Love at the 2012...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 147–182.
Published: 01 May 2006
...? The mother exudes acquiescence to this role, and she
thereby continues, in my view, to be both the perpetrator and the
victim of the system.32 It is not only she who cooperates with the
patriarchal notions and their fascist overtones but also the teach-
ers, one of whom sings a Nazi song. Ursula...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 92–111.
Published: 01 May 1992
... detainment consisted solely
in the vague description by some anonymous witness of “improper”
intimacy between two men, signs of which intimacy-rather than
actual physical descriptions of its perpetrators, for apparently the
complainant provided none-became...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 119–143.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., the symbol of modernity, the one reaching for a (Western and modern) dream, under attack. The roll call of perpetrators in the film now expands well beyond the rapists to all Indian men linked through their comments regarding the appropriate ways to think about and respond to such news. The film also...
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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 99–141.
Published: 01 May 2001
...-
atively massive scale will have an impact on the image of any sol-
dier who is shown. And after all, given the evidence for the fre-
quency of the rapes, many soldiers must have been perpetrators.
Sander also demonstrates how one can abuse visual im...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 191–217.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and the Subject of Mobility • 205
almost all occur during the viewing of a set of tapes that someone
has been slipping to Lenny secretly. These tapes all involve rape
or the threat of violence and are thus recorded from the perspec-
tive of a violent perpetrator. The exception is the tape that Iris
herself...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 7–35.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of the natural condition
of slavery through which all kinds of external factors — and the
violence perpetrated on African slaves — became naturalized and
“innate.” As Saidiya Hartmann has argued, “the wanton use of
and the violence directed toward the black body come to be iden-
tified as its pleasures...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 96–119.
Published: 01 May 1993
....
These suspects (many of the fugitives the show portrays have not
yet been tried), are represented as innately violent. The crimes por-
trayed are the manifestation of their perpetrators’ psychology. This
construction was strikingly demonstrated in a show that aired...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 171–179.
Published: 01 September 2020
... is remarkable about the #MeToo movement is not just the number of women who have been assaulted, a truth most Broken Machines already know, with little left to share or find shocking. #MeToo revealed that perpetrators of sexual violence didn t think their women as machines in relatively good working order...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
Published: 01 September 2017
... good char-
acters and, in the end, give the perpetrators their due punishment.
Many viewers have expressed shock and outrage in response to
Fat Girl, condemning the film’s graphic depiction of preteen and
teenage sexuality as well as (what was perceived by some as) a cel-
ebration...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
... upon a single character, the
manager on duty (Ann Dowd), to make sense of these violations.
Without a broader understanding of the rationale guiding each
character, the viewer is unable to fathom the crimes except by pin-
ning them on the naïveté of the victim and her perpetrators. Some
women...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 91–117.
Published: 01 September 2022
... ending the longtime bipolarization of Chinese victims against Japanese perpetrators’ cinematic discourses. Inspired by and dedicated to Iris Chang, Nanking 's commercial and critical success marked the beginning of a transnational era for Nanjing Massacre documentary films. One of Nanking 's...
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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 4–14.
Published: 01 May 1997
... narratives that must accompany the uncoverings of “truths.”
The “fall” into “Mantell’s hands,” perpetrated, it would seem, by
the teeth themselves, replicates the kinds of disruption that events like
Gabriel’s announcement and the UFO’s crash caused, because the 9
impact of such events...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 103–128.
Published: 01 May 1997
... of the political sabotage
Johnson has perpetrated. Curiously, the advocate of “pure” conscious-
ness actively blocks its production. Meredith Johnson literally throws
122 her body at Sanders in an effort to displace the exposure he might
otherwise have noted, and to create a smokescreen...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 296–320.
Published: 01 September 1991
... perpetrated the bloody murder. The destabilization
of boundaries illustrated by the head is accusatory, emphasizing the
fact that Sabich’s failure has precipitated this collapse of the distinction
between fantasy and the real, a collapse the film exaggerates by rep-
resenting Polhemus entirely through...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the moga was
in many ways a caricature of modern Japan, a convenient target
of ridicule and a perpetrator of tragedy, the figure also points
to the profound changes occurring within the gendered public
sphere. Most of the films discussed in this issue were marketed as
“women’s pictures...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 27–55.
Published: 01 September 2003
... conservative. In
the movie’s final moments, we learn that Elijah’s relation to David
is far from one of loyalty or love. In the film’s “surprise ending,”
Elijah reveals to David that he has perpetrated several acts of sab-
otage, including the train wreck, in order to discover a person
with David’s...
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