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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 61–93.
Published: 01 December 2024
... role in generating communal values and informing an inquiry into the human condition in the contemporary moment. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Camera Obscura 2024 public archaeology Korean TV nostalgia film obsolescence museum culture post-television era remediation...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 59–79.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the communist past and the post- communist future. Her public profile has emerged over the last ten years with documentary shorts such as Sisters (Syostry, 2005), Girls (Devochki, 2005), and Boys (Malchiki, 2007) and the sixty-­part TV series School (Shkola, Channel One Russia, 2010). This body of work...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 39–67.
Published: 01 December 2012
... there is the notorious homosexual problem, embodied by a range of effete communist robots and per- verted Western individualists. Throw in the speci cally industrial • Camera Obscura anxieties about the nature and in uence of television — certainly a hot topic in Hollywood at that moment — and you have all...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 31–57.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of the Hollywood blockbuster Judgment at Nuremburg (dir. Stanley Kramer, US, 1961). The network's news division interrupted the program with its special report from Selma. 2 In that era of only three nationwide television viewing options and no twenty-four-hour news channels to handle breaking news...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 11–45.
Published: 01 September 1990
... generated? Long ago the end of ideology was an- nounced. But the wolf has not gone from the door; he has appeared 12 in the electronic window as a TV evangelist. Though ephemeral, his image floats on an unending temporal stream. The era of signs is rapidly fading. We have already...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 189–218.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... They acknowledge the artifice of their persona; indeed, the acknowledgment of artifice is their persona. In doing this, they have also mastered the game of microcelebrity. New Queer Cinema and the “post-Stonewall” queer documentaries that preceded this “New Queer YouTube” era offer a historical backdrop...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 157–167.
Published: 01 December 2019
... for storytelling purposes, which became increasingly rare through- Figure 3. Interview with Chloe x Halle, Music Choice Voicing Feminine Subjectivities 161 out the decade as post-network television programs relied on them for seriality, tone management, and product distinction. Even prior to the DVD s ascent...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 166–172.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... Com- ing of age in an era in which middle-class women were entering the paid workforce in unprecedented numbers, TV, according to Lynn Spigel, “became a central trope for the crisis of masculinity 168  •  Camera Obscura in post-war culture.” Of particular concern was the suspicion...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 52–76.
Published: 01 September 1996
...- listic ex-champ (though his acclaim derives from the sport) than a ubiquitous presence on our television screens: "Today Foreman is a benign and seemingly ubiquitous figure on television, whether in po- tato-chip commercials or on late-night talk shows." 14 It is, however, through...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 190–194.
Published: 01 December 1989
... of the female spectator has not outlived its usefulness. In fact, in this era of constantly shifting identifications, it is important that feminist film and television theorists maintain this concept so as 192 to avoid slipping into a “post-feminist” indifference- a view which, claiming...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
Published: 01 December 2009
... to learn that they could. Ten years later I was in England, working in the field of educational psychology and involved in launching an open university in Mexico. I was attached to a filmmaker over there who made films for TV, and I told her, “I want to do what you do.” So I went to the BBC...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 145–177.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Clara Bradbury-Rance Abstract Across her body of work in film, television, and digital media, Desiree Akhavan has captured the awkward politics of cultural production for female filmmakers and media-makers. Yet she has also refused to straightforwardly align her work with feminist critiques...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 314–318.
Published: 01 December 1989
... and women can change over time. A “glaring inferiority” in prehistoric times, the comparative physical weakness of women would be annulled in the post-technological era by machines assuming tasks that previously required brute force. De Beauvoir draws attention...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
... became quite pronounced in the post – Second World War era, with the push to return women from the work economy to the domestic sphere in order to reintegrate returning male soldiers into the workplace.13 The popularity in the US of Christian Dior’s “New Look,” with its tightly fitted waists...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 4–28.
Published: 01 May 1996
... quickly became the industry leader in sales and installation of backyard pools. Significantly, it was not just Esther Williams' name, but also her "face and figure" that helped launch the business. From 1956 to 1960 she appeared in print advertisements, on radio and TV, and in person (traveling...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 97–129.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., with World War II – era brotherhood. It is difficult to imagine in this environment that such films as Their First Mis- take or Sons of the Desert could have been produced. Nonetheless, this atmosphere would not last forever: the duo’s 1930s films later grew in popularity through television...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 157–185.
Published: 01 December 2004
.... Currently he is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. Courtesy Miramax Traumatic Postmodern Histories: Velvet Goldmine’s Phantasmatic Testimonies Edward R. O’Neill If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 33–63.
Published: 01 December 2014
... to examine the dynamic engagement between women and television in this era — an angle that contributes to scholarship on conservative media practices, which, as television studies scholar Amanda Lotz recently noted in Cinema Journal, “remains limited.”6 By foregrounding the importance of television...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 174–178.
Published: 01 September 1991
... in West German Literature and Film by Richard W. McCormick. Princeton University Press, 1991. The Color Black: Black Images in British Television edited by Therese Daniels and Jane Gerson. British Film Institute, 1989. 176 Desperately Seeking the Audience by Ien Ang. Routledge, 1991. $15.95...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2012
... public images into phases of golden age/decline and roman poruno/social symptom/ nostalgia. The double facets of housing and social modeling resemble the period- perfect television series Mad Men or its post- Soviet cognate, Krzysztof Kies´lowski’s television series...