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Sembene Ousmanes Xala : Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 71–95.
Published: 01 May 1993
...John Mowitt Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993
Sembene Ousmane’s Xala: Postcoloniality and
Foreign Film Languages
John Mowitt
Though this paper focuses on the textual analysis of a specific film-
Sembene’s Xala (“temporary impotence” in Wo1of...
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Jane Campion's Selling of the Mother/Land: Restaging the Crisis of the Postcolonial Subject
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 93–123.
Published: 01 September 2003
... manuscript, “Mediation and Difference in Contemporary Feminism,” and an edited collection of essays, “Metaphoricity and Postmodern Politics.” The Piano (dir. Jane Campion, Australia/New Zealand/
France, 1993)
Jane Campion’s Selling of the
Mother/Land: Restaging the Crisis
of the Postcolonial Subject...
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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
...Grant Farred Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996
Feasting On Foreman: The Problematics
of Postcolonial Identification
Grant Farred
Being a Black heavyweight champion in the sec-
ond half of the twentieth century...
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The Adolescent as Postcolonial Allegory: Strategies of Intersubjectivity in Recent Portuguese Films
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 35–71.
Published: 01 September 2005
... (especially Latin American) drama and various aspects of Portuguese-speaking films such as national identity, postcoloniality, the representation of women, and literary adaptation. Ana Moreira in Os Mutantes (The Mutants)
(dir. Teresa Villaverde, Portugal/France, 1998).
Courtesy Lisbon Cinemateque...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2008
... in two seminal contributions to Palestinian cinema, Michel Khleifi's Wedding in Galilee and Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention . Paying close attention to the contested structures of nation, postcoloniality, gender, and identification within the films, the article examines the extent to which Khleifi...
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Creolizing Carmen: Reading Performance in María Antonia , Cuba's Overlooked Carmen Adaptation
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 157–191.
Published: 01 May 2012
...-Lucumí/ Santería mythology, and in general creolized in postcolonial Cuba in María Antonia . As each Carmen film reworks the narrative of Carmen to fit its particular culture and to critically discuss social inequalities plaguing its society, María Antonia resituates Carmen in urban Havana to expose...
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Symmetry, Violence, and The Handmaiden 's Queer Colonial Intimacies
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Jasmine Hu Abstract The Japanese annexation of Korea (1910–45) implicates a crisis of representation in South Korean national history. Both the traumatic wounds and complex intimacies of Japan's rule over its Korean subjects were met with postcolonial suppression, censorship, and disavowal...
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Between Worlds: Indigenous Identity and Difference in the Films of Darlene Johnson
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 81–109.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the postcolonial subjectivity of being caught between two worlds in her documentary and short fiction films, including River of No Return (2008), Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2002), Crocodile Dreaming (2006), and Two Bob Mermaid (1996). It argues that these films offer unique insights into the history of Indigenous...
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The Mysteries of Voice: Love and Transnational Identification in Performing the Border, The Price of Sex , and Señorita extraviada
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... Together, these films encourage us to revisit debates about feminist postcolonial ethics in transnational documentary. How might one share the emotional intensity of the other ethically, without projecting a false similarity? What role does a bicultural and bilingual woman filmmaker play in mediating...
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Consuming the Other: Identity, Alterity, and Contemporary German Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 41–73.
Published: 01 September 2000
... and geographical boundaries, yet at the
same time does little to challenge notions of cultural fixity. In
doing so, the advertisement reminds us that postcolonial dis-
course—whether it subscribes to syncretism and hybridity or
endorses...
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A Feminist Still: Documentary Form and Untimely Critique in Sheba Chhachhi’s Protest Photography
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and in its avant-garde critique of feminist politics through experiments with photographic form. © 2020 by Camera Obscura 2020 photography documentary postcolonialism protest India Figure 1. Protester walking through the spray of water cannons near India Gate during Nirbhaya protests, New...
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Occult Melodramas: Spectral Affect and West African Video-Film
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 25–59.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of literature at American University, Washington, DC. She writes and teaches about African cinema and literature, globalization, and sexuality studies, and her work has been published most recently in Transition and Journal of Postcolonial Writing and in Murat Aydemir's edited collection Indiscretions...
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Amazing Grace: Decadence, Deviance, Disco
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 134–139.
Published: 01 September 2007
... (New York: Routledge, 1992), 224.
3. Miriam Kershaw, “Postcolonialism and Androgyny: The
Performance Art of Grace Jones,” Art Journal 56, no. 4 (1997): 19.
4. The few critical readings of Jones that exist tend to either praise
her postcolonial performativity or condemn...
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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Transnational Feminist Spectatorship and Farida Benlyazid's A Door to the Sky
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 107–137.
Published: 01 September 2009
... intentionally or not, a series of misreadings that oblige us to ask again and again just what we were hoping to see. Camera Obscura 2009 Suzanne Gauch is an associate professor of English at Temple University, where she teaches courses in postcolonial and gender studies. She is the author...
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(Mis)Imagining Africa in the New Millennium: The Constant Gardener and Blood Diamond
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 69–99.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., even in a new millennium. Camera Obscura 2011 Diana Adesola Mafe is an assistant professor of English at Denison University, where she teaches courses in postcolonial, gender, and black studies. She has published articles in Research in African Literatures, American Drama, English Academy...
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Kyung-Sung: Cinematic Memories of the Colonial Past in Contemporary Korea
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the graduate program in visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. She teaches in the School of Media and Communication at Korea University. Her research interests include postcolonial memories, translation of culture, and Asian/Korean cinema. Her recent articles appeared in the Journal...
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Darkness and Light: Dusky Maidens and Velvet Dreams
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 185–207.
Published: 01 May 2005
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representational strategies of realism. Most television documenta-
ries about the postcolonial Pacific use sober approaches not only
because they bear the burden of representing Pacific peoples (his-
torically a very small and commercially unviable market) but also
because these films and videos are often...
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Love at Last Site: Waiting for Oedipus in Stanley Kwans Rouge
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 75–101.
Published: 01 September 1993
... the “tradition’’ and “modernity” of the Hong Kong Chi-
nese citizen, a citizen whose identity rests upon the brink of a 1997
(dis)appearance.
To begin with, the British crown colony, perched at the gate of an
imminent postcoloniality, offers an unprecedented example...
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Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 238–239.
Published: 01 January 1996
... ofException: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity.
John Michael teaches in the English Department at the University of Rochester.
He is the author of Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World and
has published essays on American literature, cultural studies, and critical...
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Index to Camera obscura /37, 38, 39 (volume 13)
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 154–155.
Published: 01 September 1996
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In Her Place. No 37; pp. 93-124.
Farred, Grant
Feasting on Foreman: The Problematics of Postcolonial Identification. No.
39; pp. 53-76.
Ganguly, Keya
Carnal Knowledge: Visuality and the Modern in Charulata. No 37; pp.
157-188.
Glynn...
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