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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 231–239.
Published: 01 May 2021
... digital transition as a model, the author interrogates the potential for online platforms to serve as a kind of scholarly postcard that offers accessible and more sustainable practices for sharing research and building more resilient and inclusive academic communities. The meditations on absence...
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in Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 1. Postcard published by Ross-Verlag. Publicity still for Daughter of the Dragon (dir. Lloyd Corrigan, US, 1931). Paramount Pictures Corporation. Author's collection
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 177–189.
Published: 01 September 2013
... film The Watermelon Woman (US, 1996), and You see I am here after all (2008), a gridded concatenation of vintage postcards depicting views of Niagara Falls. Zoe Leonard lives and works in New York. An artist who works primarily with photography and sculpture, she has exhibited extensively since...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 76–87.
Published: 01 September 1991
... failed to consider voyeurism as the very
mechanism which makes people look at images, any images, some of
the photographs do the work for them. An anonymous French postcard
from about 1890 suggests the controlling, aggressive aspect of looking.
It shows a man sitting...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
... by tourist postcards. Courtesy Ellen Spiro
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collects images of the material artifacts that affectively, often nos-
talgically, conjure this history of a generation once removed.
Especially prominent are road signs and old tourist postcards in
which, through a fusion of word...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., of this boom period
in the 1930s — have also multiplied in Korean society, particularly
in cinematic and popular media representations. For instance,
old postcards originally issued by the Japanese colonizers dis-
play Kyung-Sung’s ornate architecture and tourist sites. Illustra-
tions from old...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 69–103.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... Banks and the Mary Poppins suffrage subplot might be more productively understood as offering an ambivalent—even anti-suffrage—representation of the Anglo-American suffragette. Copyright © 2018 Camera Obscura 2018 Mary Poppins transatlantic suffrage film postcards feminism women’s...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 187–237.
Published: 01 January 1996
... Maine to Sacramento were offering a
particularly ruthless vision of the Mexican, picture postcards were doing
no less. A technological and entrepreneurial hit in the second decade of
the twentieth century, postcards became one of the most convenient and
visually memorable ways for American...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 119–121.
Published: 01 December 2021
... over to her apartment in the West Village and photographed the letters and postcards on my phone (at her suggestion). Needless to say, my hands were shaking from nervousness. As always, Barbara was bubbling with ideas, but the moment that stands out from that day is her looking me in the eye...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 71–103.
Published: 01 May 2006
... and
more visceral and pornographic in the South. The mixed-genre
runaway notice would be replaced in the public sphere by more
clearly delineated and more extreme versions of itself: the mug
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shot and the lynching postcard. Each form of representation, in
turn, accompanied...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 39–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... by —
and enveloping — shots of the rural landscape further reveals the
aesthetic and political complexity of her image archive. Varda has
just returned from Japan and is opening her suitcase, retrieving
all sorts of objects, from ornamental boxes to postcards and print
fabrics. This is how she remembers, her...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 162–167.
Published: 01 September 1990
... Vista (1980)
From the top of the hill in Buena Vista park, the eye can scan the
entire city of San Francisco. The mobility of sight onto a still image
(in the distance, the city is framed by trees like a postcard), a pan of
a panorama -this was the principle behind shooting...
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in “Virtual Varda”: Sustainable Legacies, Digital Communities, and Scholarly Postcards
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 2. Professor Feride Çiçekoğlu, coorganizer of “Gender Equality and Sustainability: Agnès Varda's Sustaining Legacy,” sends a virtual postcard in the form of her introduction to the online event, unofficially renamed “Virtual Varda,” on 28 March 2020. Courtesy of Feride Çiçekoğlu
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... In “ ‘Virtual Varda’: Sustainable Legacies, Digital Communities, and Scholarly Postcards,” Kennedy-Karpat reflects on the appropriateness of online scholarly presentations to Varda and her work, noting that Varda herself moved between media, fostered interpersonal and international connections, and created...
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 151–156.
Published: 01 May 1979
... houses throughout
the country that often hear about and show new releases before promo-
tional material has been sent to film users. In most cases a postcard
request or, sometimes, a small fee will be sufficient for you to be placed
on their mailing list. Studying the program...
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 105–114.
Published: 01 September 1977
... which is absolutely still-a
subtle variation of the postcard sequence in Les
Carabiniers-which alternate with shots of
him slowly stopping to listen to the discussion.
M 1 It 's funny. I was struck by the sincerity
andthe immense stupidiy ofthosejerks . . .
M 1 No , that was not their fault...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 46–63.
Published: 01 September 1990
...” (PW 89) Using tacky tableaux, fictional diaries, paintings turned
into playing cards and table coverings, oblique narrational and musical
commentaries, pretend postcards and letters, references to the art his-
torical and popular icons of high and low culture, reductively funny...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 42–51.
Published: 01 September 1988
... script. 51
My scripts are littered with all kinds of scribbles, newspaper cuttings, visual
messages, postcards, bits and pieces of words or colors, all of which I
ultimately put together as a completed film.For me, the China documentary
is a study that represents what I can convey...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2012
... adherence to the company’s prod-
uct logo in all press and advertising, and that also encourages a
LUNA- themed design for the event. To make this easy, LUNA
donates free LUNA bars for audience members. Slickly designed
posters, postcards, invitations, and e- vites are available for pur-
chase...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 151–163.
Published: 01 September 2021
... seventies, he composed his first formal, spectral-like work, Postal Pieces , a series of graphic scores written on the back of postcards (think of Schneemann's ABC: We Print Anything [in the Cards] , 1976–77). Then came classical spectral compositions such as Clang (1972) (inspired by his research...
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