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Facing Death, Choosing Life: Pose 's Positive Historiography
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the vitality of the community's social life despite the disease's deathliness, the show attempts to humanize its “real” history. This article explicates the ethical dilemmas that haunt this positive historiography despite its significant value. The show's attention to the robustness of the community's social...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Ned Schantz This essay considers the recurring problem of plot alternatives in Alfred Hitchcock, of powerful shadow scenes that overwhelm the manifest plot and demand a critical account of their own. Confronting such shadow scenes, the viewer takes up a social position in a long chain of failed...
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Why Isn't Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy ? Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.'s And I Do Survive
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of governmentality. Shot in real time between 2002 and 2007, And I Do Survive takes as its subject the HIV-positive bisexual activist Michelle Lopez. Born in Trinidad, Lopez has been in the US for close to two decades now but has been unable to acquire citizenship because of a legal ban on HIV-positive immigrants...
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The Feminist Refusal of I May Destroy You
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 191–217.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the series as a positive, cohesive, and ultimately feminist example of how a woman productively deals with sexual trauma. These discourses of positive representation used to frame I May Destroy You , however, focus on reinforcing liberal feminist ideals of assimilation, legibility, and respectability...
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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
... that these filmmakers exploit what I term the audience's cruel knowledge about actresses in order to position the films in relation to the other art forms associated with their actresses (ballet and pornography). Building from the premise that spectacle and excess are necessary to both celebrity and cruelty, I argue...
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They Gon’ Think You Loud Regardless: Ratchetness, Reality Television, and Black Womanhood
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Kristen J. Warner This article explores the interstitial spaces between positive and negative representations of black womanhood on reality television. It argues that regardless of the presence of supposedly positive images in media, if audiences choose to see black women as “loud,” the symbolic...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 195–203.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Jasmina Tumbas In this interview, the author and Australian artist Jemima Wyman discuss the position of art and activism in Wyman's artistic practice. Focusing on opacity as a political position in the conception and production of her artwork, Wyman comments on her use of patterns, performance...
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Chantal Akerman and the Cinéfille
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of cinephilia; Akerman's complex relation to her own cinematic becoming and cinema's historiography; and the distinct temporality and duration of cinema produced by and for the figure of the girl. The article demonstrates that in Akerman's filmmaking, the figure of girl as cinéfille is not a position...
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A Kitchen of One's Own: The Paradox of Dione Lucas
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 1–23.
Published: 01 September 2012
... cooking-show hosts, the line between performance/entertainment and instruction/information on television, and the position of host on television in relation to audience, temporality, and the notion of home and self. Kathleen Collins is a reference librarian and associate professor at the City...
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More Than “Just Talk”: The Chelsea Picture Station in the 1970s
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 125–133.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and alternative exhibition scenarios realized feminist ideals during an immensely formative moment for feminist media. The essay concludes by attempting to assess WMM's unique position in independent film. Brochure for Chelsea Picture Station workshop,
20 November 1972. Photo (right) by Susan Meiselas...
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The Only Way Out Is In: Girl 6 , Sex Work, and the Color Line
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 1–33.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... Taking those close-ups alongside Girl 6 's interpolation of 1970s blaxploitation film and television, this article argues that the film is as concerned with the elision of public and private spaces for racially marked figures as it is with the reduction of positive black representation to commodified...
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Hong Kong Mambo
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... But if Chang's films seem rather too insistent on positioning her within the bounds of propriety, we need only look to their extreme dependence upon modes of corporeal display that push those very bounds for the reason why. More than any other performer of her time, Chang was identified with new, unfamiliar...
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Věra Chytilová's The Fruit of Paradise : A Tale of a Feminine Aesthetic, Dancing Color, and a Doll Who Kills the Devil
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 65–91.
Published: 01 December 2014
... but deliberately decentering sensory saturation as a novel and poignant cinematic enactment of feminine difference. Fruit 's vivid multidimensional expressive modality, we posit, provides a curiously fecund opening beyond the margins of the conventional symbolic order, pursuing through its feminine-feminist...
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Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai?/What Is behind the Stardom? Madhuri Dixit, the Production Number, and the Construction of the Female Star Text in 1990s Hindi Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 129–159.
Published: 01 December 2015
... cinema deployed in its attempt to manage a new and potentially dangerous circulation of the heroine's body. By highlighting these strategies' frequent failure to contain Dixit's flamboyantly dancing body, this article posits that the dancer-actress engenders a distinctive mode of performance...
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Conservative Narrativity, Queer Politics, and the Humor of Gay Stereotypes in Modern Family
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Mitch and Cam, has raised the hackles of audiences who see in it a whitewashing of queer life and queer desire. A strain of television criticism posits a conservatism inherent to the narrative structures of the sitcom, and this dynamic would in some measure account for the tension between the program’s...
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Lena Horne's Impersona
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 11–45.
Published: 01 May 2008
... an “unperforming of the self” through the cultivation of an impersonal intimacy that deferred a fixed subjectivity and frustrated the racial expectations of her audiences. She developed this impersona through three interlocking tactics: a disarticulation of self and song; a reversal of the psychic positions...
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The Interpellations of Interpolation; or, The Disintegrating Female Musical Body
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 89–111.
Published: 01 May 2008
... bodies. This integration seems to be invested with limiting the potential positions from which spectators can approach the musical performance—most crucially, in preventing identification with singers' bodies. In this way, the integration of Oklahoma! participates in the tradition of the Wagnerian...
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“Becoming-Girl” in the New Russian Cinema: Youth and Valeria Gai Germanika's Films and Television
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 59–79.
Published: 01 May 2014
... studios, and, most important, as a young director articulating a position of youth in a cultural milieu traditionally dominated by an older generation's point of view. Her work and profile as a director thus offer a specifically gendered and generational dimension to the geopolitical movements...
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Collectivity in (Stop-)Motion: Lift Animation, Lantern Software, and the Making of Community
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 165–173.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Donna Kornhaber This article positions the work of the feminist animation studio Lift Animation as a corrective to the industrialized processes and gendered hierarchies of traditional commercial animation studios. It examines Lift's unique place in the world of contemporary animation as a studio...
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The Fold of Undetectable
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 167–173.
Published: 01 September 2016
... conventional testing, a new form of identity has been produced that collapses the categories of “positive” and “negative.” The undetectable person is at once neither and both, a curious indeterminacy that throws into question what we mean when we speak of our “status.” In his treatise The Principles...
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