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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...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 67–79.
Published: 01 September 1988
...Anne Friedberg Andreas Huyssen, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Post-modernism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986) Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 The Mercator of the Postmodern: Mapping the
Great Divide
Anne Friedberg...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 42–74.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Jodi Dean Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 Swamp Gas by Jeffrey Westover, 1997. Courtesy of the artist.
The Truth is Out There: Aliens and the
Fugitivity of Postmodern Truth
Jodi Dean
Arrival
Aliens have invaded the United States. They swarmed over...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 128–153.
Published: 01 January 1988
...Lynne Joyrich Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
All that Television Allows: TV Melodrama,
Postmodernism and Consumer Culture
Lynne ]oyrich
I. Drama at Our Fingertips
In an emotionally charged...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 110–125.
Published: 01 December 1984
...Jean-François Lyotard; Maria Minich Brewer; Daniel Brewer © 1984 by Camera Obscura 1984 Ler Bazgneuzez (Claude-Joseph Vernet , 1771)
Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their
Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of
Postmodernity
Jean-FranGotj- LYO~UT~
I imagine you...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Richard Pope It is typically argued that Blade Runner should be seen as a metaphor of the postmodern condition, or of our—”our” insofar as we are postmodern subjects—schizophrenic relation to the Symbolic order. It is said that while the film's replicants are initially resistant to the social order...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 189–218.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and elevate this legacy with an aesthetic that evokes the postmodern sensibilities of New Queer Cinema and “post-Stonewall” queer documentaries. Two videos are of particular interest here: Natalie Wynn's “Shame | ContraPoints,” and Abigail Thorn's “Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story | Philosophy Tube ★...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2011
... that the filmmaker has come herself to represent. It is the modern rather than the historical qualities of the film that have captured the attention of most reviewers; but what, precisely, is “modern” about Marie Antoinette , and how is the film's modernity distinguishable from the labels of “postmodern...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 195–207.
Published: 01 September 2019
... depict printed matter from the postmodern period that include photographs of female models posed as if they are shooting playful selfportraits in a mirror, acting as if they are themselves the photographer. Taking Collier’s work as evidence, this essay asks questions about how and why the selfie is so...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Anne Kustritz While Battlestar Galactica reinvigorated the science fiction genre by representing contemporary political problems in a complex, often radical fashion, the series also makes visible a new articulation of eugenic thinking. Postmodern eugenics repurposes turn-of-the-twentieth-century...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 108–143.
Published: 01 September 2006
....
These tableaux of escape shape each of Tykwer’s fea-
ture films and lend them a quality of transcendence and open-
ness unique in German film. Indeed, they call into question the
generic and cultural categories of Tykwer’s films. Tykwer’s films
are often characterized as “postmodern” or even “global...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 148–165.
Published: 01 September 1991
... and address, which does not simultaneously
challenge the fact of sexual difference It follows, for Rose, that
postmodern artistic practices (that is, practices that have a stake in
critiquing modernist aesthetic norms operating to exclude femininity
in visual “quality...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 373–377.
Published: 01 December 1989
....
Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism edited by Andrew Ross
(for the Social Text collective). Minnesota University Press. $14.95.
Opera, or the Undoing of Women by Catherine ClCment. Translated by Betsy
Wing. Foreword by Susan McClary. Minnesota University Press. $13.95.
Off Screen: Women...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 86–107.
Published: 01 January 1989
..., in these passages, with Hollywood
family melodramas of the 1950’s, Lynne Joyrich has recently argued
that melodrama is the paradigmatic televisual form, harnessed to man-
age the crisis of postmodernity.15 While soap operas are the most
obvious examples of television melodrama, adopting such character...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 76–101.
Published: 01 May 1994
.... In another episode, it is the ornament itself, a
brooch in the shape of a scorpion that is offered as Zeurre, as bait
tendered to lead Veronica astray. In the functionalist detective narra-
tive, the drive is towards recuperating the ornament, that opening onto
postmodern superfluity...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 190–194.
Published: 01 December 1989
... that the oppositions constitutive of sexual difference and the
gendered gaze have simply disappeared within a postmodern implosion
of meaning, renders all attempts to speak for or in the name of women
problematic and easily dismissed. While current constructions of gen-
der may...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 76–91.
Published: 01 May 1992
... of Blue
Velvet. I shall now go on to situate the film within a context of the
postmodern, a context that I think provides the conditions for a certain
kind of transference. This kind of transference will be characterized
as The Oblivious Transfer.
6. Postmodernity and The Oblivious Transfer...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 194–199.
Published: 01 December 1989
... Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 194 that is postmodern American life, we can continue to intervene effec-
tively within contemporary cultural and sexual politics.
It is impossible to provide a complete list of all the scholarship that
I...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 174–178.
Published: 01 September 1991
... by Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio. Routledge, 1991.
$13.95.
Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film by Richard Dyer. Routledge,
1991. $15.95.
European Cinemas, European Cities: 1939-2 990 by Pierre Solin. Routledge,
1991. $18.95.
Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 151.
Published: 01 September 1996
..., 1996) and the co-editor with Caren
Kaplan of Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist
Practices (Minnesota University Press, 1994).
Caren Kaplan is an Associate Professor in the Women's Studies Department
at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author...
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