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Oh, “Doll Divine”: Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 197–227.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochist Aesthetic . She has coauthored four anthologies, most recently Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster and John Ford Made Westerns . She is currently working on a social history of women and Hollywood film culture. “Rags” (Mary Pickford...
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Made in Movieland: Imitation, Agency, and Girl Movie Fandom in the 1910s
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 129–165.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., they imitated stars to ren-
der legible their affective investment in the movies. If spotted in
a public space wearing Mary Pickford’s trademark curls or Theda
Bara’s famous dark-rimmed eyes, girls knew that they would be
readily readable to fellow filmgoers as a follower of that actress...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 1–7.
Published: 01 December 2001
... such as Mary Pickford and Greta Garbo, whose stardom
appeared to be self-evident but proves more complex than previ-
ous accounts have suggested.
A foundational premise of this volume is that the critical
analysis of stardom should not be considered a separate branch
of work in film studies...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 1–39.
Published: 01 December 2009
... babyhood.”5 It is clear that Temple’s innocence —
and those signature shots of her underpants — were crucial to her
erotic appeal.
Temple’s films were structured by what Gaylyn Studlar — in
relation to Mary Pickford — has called a “pedophilic gaze,” or what
can be described as the obsessive...
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The Americanization of Tsuru Aoki: Orientalism, Melodrama, Star Image, and the New Woman
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 129–157.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of victim-
ization or self-sacrifice. Alternatively, she was often a chaste object
of the hero’s affection, a girlish figure, and/or a loving daughter.
Her screen persona thus had more in common with performers
such as Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford than with exotic types like
Theda Bara or Alla...
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Deanna Durbin and the Mismatched Voice
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 69–98.
Published: 01 December 2012
... claim that these
early lms combine the model of the German prepubescent teen
with the image crafted by American stars like Mary Pickford.21
Yet I argue that there is a nonspeci c Europeanness to Durbin’s
cinematic aura in these rst eight features that speaks louder than
her adopted American...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 188–189.
Published: 01 May 1996
...,and Transcontinental
Articulationsedited by Michael T. Martin. Wayne State University Press, 1997.
$39.95
Our Movie Heritage by Tom McGreevey and Joanne L. Yeck. Rutgers Uni-
versity Press, 1997. $45.00.
Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood by Eileen Whitefield...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 216–218.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and
Poetics. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.
Usai, Paolo Cherchi. The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and
the Digital Dark Age. London: British Film Institute, 2001.
Whitfield, Eileen. Pickford: The Woman Who...
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“The Finest Outside the Loop”: Motion Picture Exhibition in Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1905–1928
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 8–41.
Published: 01 May 1990
...,” or
“Vaudeville de Lux and Best Motion Available documen-
tation on theaters in the twenties indicates that virtually all were
independently owned and operated, with the exception of the Owl
and the Pickford, owned by Chicago Theaters Corp~rationAlthough
some theaters promoted...
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Imaging Modern Girls in the Japanese Woman's Film
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 15–55.
Published: 01 December 2005
... — as in Souls on the Road (Rojo no reikon, dir. Murata
Minoru, 1921), in which Hanabusa Yuriko copied Mary Pickford’s
image down to details of hair, clothes, and body language — the
woman’s film merged the Hollywood influence with a sense of
authenticity drawn from the audience’s everyday life. The West...
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In the Twilight of Modernity and the Silent Film: Irie Takako in The Water Magician
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 91–127.
Published: 01 December 2005
... with a physique comparable to Western women is blatantly
manifest here, echoing the infamous narrator of Tanizaki’s Naomi
who compared his lover to Mary Pickford.21 Kinema junp¯o’s love for
Irie culminated in its 21 July 1931 issue that put her gorgeously
backlit close-up on the title page, a place almost...
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Technologies of Early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 9–57.
Published: 01 December 2001
... names
—Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford—coterminous at the start with
that of D. W. Griffith, and appraise the vampish Theda Bara as
more notorious than illustrative (more infamous, so to speak,
than famous), we are faced with a curious lacuna: the conspicu-
ous absence of early women stars. Ineluctably...
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Maria Hirszbein: An (In)visible Figure of Polish Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 61–83.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and in the social sphere. As Hallett notes, a movie star in early Hollywood such as Mary Pickford, who was also a producer and a writer, “invited . . . [her] female fans to identify with a protagonist liberated from many of the customary restraints that economic dependence and the cult of domesticity placed...
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The Many Lives of Mr. Yunioshi:: Yellowface and the Queer Buzz of Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of
Asians circulated in political cartoons, popular song, and vaude-
ville acts across the US.8 Notable early examples of cinematic yel-
lowface include Madame Butterfly (dir. Sidney Olcott, US, 1915),
featuring Mary Pickford as Cho- Cho- San; Broken Blossoms (dir.
D. W. Griffith, US, 1919...
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Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 159–195.
Published: 01 December 2001
... is a certain irresponsible, devil-may-care charm. Buddy
Rogers and Dick Barthelmess are every woman’s boys . . . Mary Pickford
began to fade when she grew less the dimpled hoyden and more the First
Lady of Filmdom and chatelaine of the Fairbanks manor. Pola Negri just
neglected to be herself.44...
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“Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn?” Film as a Vehicle of Sensual Education
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 75–117.
Published: 01 September 2010
...
this form of collaborative authorship in her description of
Frances Marion’s and Adela Rogers St. Johns’s ghostwriting for
Mary Pickford. Amelie Hastie, Cupboards of Curiosity: Women,
Recollection, and Film History (Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
2007), 162.
51. Valentino...
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The Actress Experience: Cruel Knowing and the Death of the Picture Personality in Black Swan and The Girlfriend Experience
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 1–35.
Published: 01 May 2013
... longtime partner. And in 1936 the
celebrity divorce of United Artists’ Mary Pickford and Douglas
Fairbanks set the stage for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton,
Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, and so on. Though the star scan-
dal is a dish the film public has always devoured with great relish...
