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Appear to Disappear: Blackness, Affect, and the Political Imaginary
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 173–197.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the mass coalescing of Black people and white‐dominated conservative politics. In response to the aggression of the Trump campaign and its supporters, Idusuyi is seen reading Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric . Despite this personal protest, Idusuyi's affective dissent is amplified via its...
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Imperceptibility and Accumulation: Political Strategies of Plastic
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 187–193.
Published: 01 September 2016
... describes plastic's movement through the world and its durability. Accumulation asks for a reconsideration of political allies. Finally, nonfilial progeny offers a speculative intervention toward developing a feminist sense of responsibility for and relation to a future that is increasingly marked by loss...
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“Scotch! Scotch! Scotch!”: The Inoperative Domestic Scene in Chantal Akerman's Saute ma ville
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 55–79.
Published: 01 May 2023
... without references” — in her “preference not to” perform the supportive labor of the domestic space and in so doing literally “blow up her town” makes this early work interpretable as structurally concerned and politically motivated recit in the mode of her later films, rather than merely narrative...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Jackie Stacey Sally Potter’s film Yes (UK/US, 2004) stages the political possibilities of cosmopolitanism through the aesthetics of a heterosexual love story whose failures reveal the limit points of such a vision. Read psychoanalytically, cosmopolitan aspirations share with love an idealizing...
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Damsels Who Distress: Gender and the Acousmatic Voice in Video Games
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 63–93.
Published: 01 September 2020
... voice in five recent games— BioShock (2007), Gone Home (2013), The Stanley Parable (2013), The Talos Principle (2014), and Firewatch (2016)—that illustrate the complicated connections between gender, games, technology, and the political. It then turns to the work of Super-giant Games, a small developer...
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“A More Personal Look at Her Life”: Family Narrative, Gender, and Transnational Memories in The Girl and the Picture
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 91–117.
Published: 01 September 2022
... observes that Chinese rural women's oral accounts of their past tend to deviate from the Chinese official discourse of historical events or political propaganda. 28 Believing that the official rhetoric cannot do justice to their dual responsibilities of engaging in hard physical labor while raising...
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Spectacles of History: Race Relations, Melodrama, and the Science Fiction/Disaster Film
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 109–153.
Published: 01 September 2002
... despite its lack of depth.3 But it seems
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clear to me that it was not motivated by or enjoyed through a need
to understand the global political landscape, and it did not overtly
thematize the political responsibility we seek in our...
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No Woman Is an Object: Realizing the Feminist Collaborative Video
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 71–97.
Published: 01 December 2003
... and employees, and
plan insurrections large and small. So attests prisoner, political
activist, and artist Elizam Escobar: “Even under extreme repres-
sion, individual freedom is unavoidable as we must keep on exer-
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cising our decisions and responsibilities. Here again art comes...
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Julia Lesage
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 219–226.
Published: 01 December 1989
... certain we were politically
correct.
Film scholars often have not gone much further than this. Critiques
of Diva or Gandhi as racist and imperialist derived from the same
kind of gut level anger and refusal to see audience responses as a
shifting mix of “colonized” reactions and subcultural...
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Soviet Film Montage and the Woman Question
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 24–53.
Published: 01 January 1989
... of a woman who shakes her fist
in anger. This marks the first overtly political response to Vakulinchuk’s
death (and her clenched fist aside, her response seems to be as emotional
as it is political). The political momentum is shifted quickly by a cut
to a young man, who reads...
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Breeding Unity: Battlestar Galactica 's Biracial Reproductive Futurity
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2012
... legacy but with her slow descent into despair. She
refuses life- sustaining cancer medication, prioritizes her romantic
attachment to Admiral Bill Adama (Edward James Olmos) over her
political responsibilities to the entire eet, and ful lls her spiritual
purpose by momentarily safeguarding Hera...
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Call for Submissions: Collectivity
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 184–185.
Published: 01 September 2014
... ten to fifteen years, a grow-
ing constellation of collectives, many international, has emerged,
configuring artists and activists in new political and cultural for-
mations. These collectives are a response to developments like the
growing impact of digital media and mobile technologies, new...
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The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 1988
... indicated a collective political response to problems previously
adjudicated on a personal level. Radical challenges to the authority of
capital (like the 1946 Auto Workers' strike demand that wage increases
come out of corporate profits rather than from price hikes passed...
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Camera Obscura Questionnaire on Alternative Film Distribution
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 157–175.
Published: 01 May 1979
... films for distribution?
158 C. Do you see your company as a political force? How does this
govern the choice of films you distribute?
D. How many films are there in your collection?
E. What is the range of subject matter in your collection? Do you
have...
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Castle & Crook: Necroliberalism and Cartographies of Abandonment in Maquilapolis ( City of Factories ) and Señorita Extraviada ( Missing Young Woman )
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and political violence along the Mexico and US border region during the post-NAFTA era mark the persistent logic of neoliberal governing articulated and promoted by discourses of individual responsibility and prudentialism. 1 Post-NAFTA border militarization, denationalization, and ungovernability constitute...
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The Legacy of Representation: International Experimental Media Congress; Toronto, 1989 and 2010
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 137–147.
Published: 01 December 2012
... that support experimental art practices. However, one surprising continuity emerged in discussion at the 2010 congress: namely, the still fraught question of what constitutes adequate representation of minority voices. Despite the widespread tendency to assume that identity politics and representation...
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Beyond Cosmo : AIDS, Identity and Inscriptions of Gender
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 20–77.
Published: 01 January 1992
... they are the same as or different from “women with AIDS.”
In the rest of this section, I will more briefly identify additional
34 problems in AIDS discourse of the 1980s that have discouraged a clear
conception of women’s risk and the formation of an organized political
response...
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Feasting On Foreman: The Problematics of Postcolonial Identification
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 52–76.
Published: 01 September 1996
... Wills1 to "Sugar Ray" Leonard
and Mike Tyson-have borne an unusual burden of socio-political
responsibility: "The history of boxing-of fighting-in America is
very much one with the history of the black man in America Black
boxers, as Oates implies, have always required a keen...
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Memory and Melodrama: The Transnational Politics of Deepa Mehta's Earth
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2005
...-
ing the violence from the perspective of a character who loves and
feels sympathy regardless of religious identity or political affinity,
Earth produces an emotional response to violence and the loss of
community, instead of anger at one facet of this community.
Returning to viewers...
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Collectivity: Part 2
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., with
many organizing around forms of media production. In the last
ten to fifteen years, a growing constellation of collectives, many
international, has emerged, configuring artists and activists
in new political and cultural formations. These collectives are
a response to developments like...
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