Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 571 Search Results for
popular culture
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... The accompanying notes in this fictional
archive identify this photograph as “Martha and Fae at home.
(mid-1930s Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings:
Documentary and Popular Culture
Ann Cvetkovich
Every lesbian is worthy of inclusion in history. If you...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 141–171.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in popular culture, where the frameworks of ability that appear as preferred user positions are also rendered articulable in normative representations of (dis)ability, gender, and race; and the relationship between becoming user and having access is revealed as critical. 10 Oracle is an exceptional...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 104–125.
Published: 01 September 1996
...Kwai-Cheung Lo
Muscles and Subjectivity: A Short History
of the Masculine Body in Hong Kong
Popular Culture
Kwai-Cheung La
About a year ago, watching David Letterman's Late Show on CBS, I
was surprised to find that Jackie Chan was the show's second guest...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 81–109.
Published: 01 December 2008
... in relation to feminist politics, on one hand, and popular culture, on the other? When does self-representation overstep the boundary between sexual valorization and prurient commodification? How, in turn, should a female viewer respond to erotic visual material produced by a woman? In order to understand...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 77–107.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., might reframe the moralistic tone with which black motherhood in particular is policed in popular culture. Dijana Jelača is a doctoral candidate in communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her interests include critical cultural studies, film and feminist theory, and trauma...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 59–79.
Published: 01 May 2014
... that inflect popular culture in postcommunist Eastern Europe. Germanika's work casts light on the contemporary terrain of Russian filmmaking and its relationship to the site occupied by Russian youth, who find themselves caught between the communist past and the yet-to-come postcommunist future. This article...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2015
... sensibilities. This essay argues that BREAKAWAY is an inherently collaborative and cross-disciplinary work that self-reflexively invokes the utopian aspirations of the American underground and popular culture during the mid-1960s, especially through its utilization of rock and roll, a genre rooted in vernacular...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 139–161.
Published: 01 May 2019
... precise repetition and variation of stylistic strategies, songs imbue Akerman’s films with a range of meanings and experiences we rarely associate with her work: a jolt of joy, an impression of intense human connection, a reference to popular culture. Through unpredictable humming, an opera duet...
Image
in Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 4. Barbara at her computer under the Gotham clock. “A Little Knowledge,” Showcase ’94 , no. 12 (December 1994), DC Comics, 4. Scan provided by the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection at Michigan State University
More
Image
in Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1. A Gotham street scene and Barbara at computer in her bedroom. “Oracle: Year One; Born of Hope,” The Batman Chronicles , no. 5 (Summer 1996), 7. Scan provided by the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection at Michigan State University
More
Image
in Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 2. Barbara stretching and flexing, wearing a stripy sweater, facing a computer monitor and keyboard. “Oracle: Year One; Born of Hope,” The Batman Chronicles , no. 5 (Summer 1996), 9. Scan provided by the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection at Michigan State University
More
Image
in Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 3. Barbara typing “tak tak tak” and being interrupted by the “BAM BAM BAM” of someone knocking on the door. “A Little Knowledge,” Showcase94 , no. 12 (December 1994), DC Comics, 1. Scan provided by the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection at Michigan State University
More
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the femininity of the brand according to masculine values and cultures. The femininity of the thirty-year-old series is placed in historical and theoretical context, illustrating parallels between current and earlier incarnations of the franchise and its continuities with other women-centered popular media...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 5–31.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in the contemporary global terrain of film festivals and criticism. Bier's recent work demonstrates properties of both art cinema and popular European genre cinema; as a result, estimations of her films' critical and cultural worth have frequently been divergent and arguably gendered. The discussion focuses on three...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 129–159.
Published: 01 December 2015
... influence on pop-
ular Hindi film dance and indeed over Indian popular culture in
general. Acclaimed as a fine actress and a spectacular dancer, Dix-
it’s thirty-year career is signposted by (in)famous song-and-dance
sequences such as “Ek do teen” in Tezaab, “Dhak dhak karne laga”
(“My Heart Goes...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 29–67.
Published: 01 December 2011
....
In an essay on the Hollywood musicals of Jack Cole, Adri-
enne McLean draws a distinction between two modes through
which Oriental dance entered US popular culture. The first, as
practiced by Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis, appeared as pastiche,
assembled from not much more than extant...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to larger cultural movements focused on equating greater consumer choice with greater freedom. Most popular histories of these technologies portray them as being created primarily by and for men, but many of these technologies were actually pioneered by Pattie Maes, a professor at the Massachusetts...
Journal Article
Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
Published: 01 September 2014
... appropriation of controversial
issues in popular discourse. Although the story appeared realistic
to many viewers, the drama’s portrayal of the young middle class in
urban China reinforced certain cultural myths. The series’s creators
added depth to the story by skillfully integrating social problems...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 129–165.
Published: 01 May 2017
... encouraging a cultural
policing of girl-to-girl relation-
ships. “Schoolgirl crushes” or
“mashes” remained popular
terms to describe fleeting and
harmless erotic attachments
between adolescent girls.
However, the way film maga-
zines framed these affective
ties in negative and even...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 149–159.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in and critique of their favorite films. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2022 feminism social media popular culture hashtags participatory culture Figure 1. A square of nine posts related to the screening of The Craft...
FIGURES
1
