.... Her films are aesthetically distinct in the context of the formal histories of social documentary in India, which emerged at a moment of political crisis and subsequently came to be associated with instrumental use in education, advocacy, and public address. For Vohra, the textual stability...

... examines death and beauty in twentieth-century art, literature, and film. “Don’t you feel eyes moving over your body? Don’t your eyes seek out the things they wantHannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in The Silence of the Lambs (dir. Jonathan Demme, US, 1991) The Practice and Politics of “Freeing...

... Far from Heaven (US/France, 2002) The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk Sharon Willis Condensation and Displacement Far from Heaven (US/France, 2002), Todd Haynes’s lush, lurid, strikingly amplified homage to Douglas Sirk, bristles with rework- ings...

.... Aamir Khan as Dil Navaz in Earth. Courtesy Zeitgeist Films Memory and Melodrama: The Transnational Politics of Deepa Mehta’s Earth Jeanette Herman Besides in its nature referring to events which cannot be retrieved or fully relived, then, remembering appears to demand no necessary...

... Daydreams: Consumer Citizenship and Hollywood Cinema of the 1930s.” A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E Political Theory and Melodrama Studies Anna Siomopoulos Throughout the important collection Cultural Studies and Political Theory, theorists...

... of Eastern Europe have survived a sexual revolution? What does sexuality tell us about the repressive politics of Eastern European revolutionary governments? Camera Obscura 2009 Constantin Parvulescu teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. His articles have appeared in journals...

... to Politics Julie Levin Russo My second ever mobile post from my camera phone to my Live- Journal blog (February 2005) featured a photo of me, offering my subscribed “friends” the opportunity to comment. Since then, I have regularly blogged images of myself and from my daily life...

...Minh-Ha T. Pham This essay closely considers the political limits and possibilities of fashion-themed blogs. Specifically, the author examines the ways in which such blogs are everyday cultural sites that are framed by and can potentially reframe neoliberal relations of culture, technology...

...Karen Orr Vered; John McConchie Inspired by a review of the political theories of Anthony Giddens, particularly his question of whether or not there can be a Third Way politics of family, this essay examines the TV show Supernanny as an example of what we call “Third Way TV.” Tracing the program's...

... I N PRACTI CE: FESTIVALS, FILM, FEMI N I SM How EXPRMNTL Made the Small Coastal Town of Knokke the Scene for Radical Artistic New Waves and Political Sea Changes Gerda Johanna Cammaer The small Belgian coastal town of Knokke- le- Zoute once set the scene for one...

...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...

... by Camera Obscura 2014 Figure 1. “They can’t tell like we can”: Mignon Dupree (Lonette McKee) and Ester Jeeter (Rosanne Katon) share an ambiguously intimate moment in Julie Dash’s Illusions (US, 1982). The Face Is a Politics: A Close-Up­ View of Julie Dash’s Illusions Nick...

... Collective Filmmaking, Coalitional Politics, and a Globalized Arctic Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport At first glance, one may not think of the Arctic as the site of one of the world’s leading women-­centered indigenous filmmaking col- lectives. Moreover, the Arctic may...

...Tison Pugh Despite the progressive ambitions announced in its title, the sitcom Modern Family (ABC, 2009–) has been excoriated by many viewers for its purported conservatism and reactionary politics. In particular, the program’s treatment of homosexuality, evident in the story line of gay couple...

... . Women’s Film Festival in Seoul, 2005. Courtesy of WFFIS A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E The Future Was Then: Reinvesting in Feminist Media Practice and Politics Alexandra Juhasz The future of feminist media scholarship begins with a return...

.... Originally published in harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor (New York: Studio Museum of Harlem, 2004) Courtesy of the artist “Of la Baker, I Am a Disciple”: The Diva Politics of Reception Jeanne Scheper The US expatriate performer Josephine Baker (1906 – 75), who lived primarily...

...”—their openness to new ideas, new people, and new connections—that makes them sane. This notion provides a way of thinking about the aesthetic and political stakes of a collaborative process of creative production, such as the one employed in the making of Shortbus and made visible in its final form. This essay...

... and political, focusing in particular on the work of French activist video collectives Vidéo Out, les Muses s'amusent, and les Insoumuses. Arguing for protoqueer, nomadic, dissident, and performative modes of expression, it demonstrates that collective subjectivity never follows a clear, linear pattern...

... contemporary articulations of queerness and queer sex rest on notions of opacity. This mirrors the production of plastic and the ways in which this alienated material has influenced our lives. Given this congruence, what might be borrowed from the figure of plastic for contemporary politics and organizing...

... a documentary ethic of emergency (which draws on material forms like immediations that are ready at hand but obscure the path to social change) and a documentary politics of urgency and necessity (which maps the social structures, forces, and institutions that perpetuate structural inequality). Copyright ©...