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British Feminist Film Theory's Female Spectators: Presence and Absence

Laura Mulvey
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 68–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-68
Published: 01 December 1989
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Diasporic Erotic: Love, Loss, and the Copy

Mimi Thi Nguyen
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2016960
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the schoolgirl — for the collocation of chronological and nonchronological times with the heterogeneous spaces of diaspora. But the diasporic archive that is this calendar also illumines for us certain media for ensuring a beloved body's continued presence, the photograph and also the calendar being formal...
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They Gon’ Think You Loud Regardless: Ratchetness, Reality Television, and Black Womanhood

Kristen J. Warner
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2885475
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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Machinic Intimacies and Mechanical Brides: Collectivity between Prosthesis and Surrogacy in Jonathan Mostow's Surrogates and Spike Jonze's Her

Alla Ivanchikova
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 65–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454430
Published: 01 May 2016
... collectivity emerges as the voice of the “general intellect,” disembodied and mediated by the machines. The collective resurfaces as a ghost in the machine, a spectral presence that haunts the network to offer a glimpse of hope of liberation and autonomy for the disaffected human multitude. Alla...
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Why Isn't Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy ? Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.'s And I Do Survive

Ani Maitra
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-007
Published: 01 September 2010
...” Michelle, and the limits of what it can convey to its audience. Maitra shows how the diffused, “middling” presence of Hima's camera locates Lopez in the middle of her contradictory emotions, and gives viewers a sense of her statelessness, of the unnerving position of being both contained and dispossessed...
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Panting in the Dark: The Ambivalence of Air in Cinema

Kevin L. Ferguson
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 33–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1301530
Published: 01 September 2011
... liminal. Through close readings of The Seven Year Itch, Blue Velvet, Three Little Pigs , and The Empire Strikes Back , I track the range of meaning found in cinematic breathing, from the figurative presence of erotic breath in pornography to the literal associations of air and environment in animation...
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LUNAFEST on Campus

Kelly Hankin
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 159–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727500
Published: 01 December 2012
...-sponsored event, LUNAFEST poses significant problems that should concern any teacher worried about corporate influence in educational institutions. As LUNAFEST increases its campus presence, an analysis of the role it plays in students' education is critical. Figure . Luna’s instruction manual requires...
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Berlin Alexanderplatz 's Serial Women

Jill Richards
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 67–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2352158
Published: 01 December 2013
..., multidimensional site. Though often peripheral to the miniseries's major plot arcs, the female characters upend the interpretive authority of the voice-over. Their presence unsettles the voice-over's construction of a somewhat monolithic, omniscient, and in many ways melodramatic historical imagination...
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Hong Kong Mambo

Jean Ma
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2801496
Published: 01 December 2014
...-reaching shift wherein the goings-on of the dance floor began to influence screen culture to a greater degree than in the past, and choreography itself assumed a more emphatic presence in film's musical lexicon. In Chang's performances, we discover a seismograph of the process by which dance is recoded...
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Inanimism: Nymphomaniac , Under the Skin , and Capitalist Late Style

Marta Figlerowicz
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 41–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6923106
Published: 01 September 2018
.... This fantasy reflects a fear that the technologies we use to store data about and images of ourselves have effectively become more exhaustive and reliable sources of self-knowledge than our embodied presence. Copyright © 2018 Camera Obscura 2018 new media Jonathan Glazer Under the Skin inanimism...
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“Cast Off the Shackles of Yesterday”: Women’s Suffrage in Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins

Ana Stevenson
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 69–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6923118
Published: 01 September 2018
... they do not seek to discard patriarchal social structures; rather, in the mode of anti-suffrage media, their presence ultimately works to reinforce these very hierarchies and endorse bourgeois respectability. Despite such tensions, many popular commemorations of Mary Poppins assume the film’s...
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Yesterday’s Hadaly: On Voicing a Feminist Media Archaeology

Paul Flaig
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 105–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6923130
Published: 01 September 2018
... is inspired by Jacques Derrida’s turn from phonocentric presence to telephonic writing. The essay elaborates this concept of voicing by contrasting Derrida and other philosophers of voice with the desexualizing approach taken by media archaeologists, focusing on Wolfgang Ernst’s version of media archaeology...
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On the Difficulty of Forgetting: Recollections of the Basel Symposium on Chantal Akerman

Edited by Eva Kuhn, Ute Holl
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 163–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7264184
Published: 01 May 2019
... by the participants in the symposium condense their contributions, their thoughts, and the sometimes contradictory positions that surfaced after the viewing of Akerman’s films. Films served as spaces of resistance, reconsidering the boundaries of history and presence, of fiction and document, and of biography...
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Three by Three: Lisa Cholodenko’s Attachment Trilogy

Lee Wallace
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 97–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7772399
Published: 01 December 2019
... heart is an established couple whose seemingly secure erotic bond is marked by deep ambivalence. This bond is stretched beyond recognition as it bends to the presence of the sexual outsider, who is first incorporated into, then ejected from, the pseudofamilial world. Though irreparably altered...
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Female Surrogate Labor and White Corporeal Debt in Singin’ in the Rain

Anthea Kraut
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052774
Published: 01 September 2021
... credibility enabled Reynolds to conceal her intercorporeal and multiracial debts. Finally, the essay argues that the presence of dancers of color in the film, most notably Rita Moreno, haunts the chains of white corporeal debt that bind Reynolds to Haney and Coyne. Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura...
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Incestuous Wanderlust: 35 Shots of Rum 's Atmospheres of Circulation

Iggy Cortez
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 61–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9561423
Published: 01 May 2022
... felt presence in 35 Shots also extends to multiple extradiegetic allusions the film pursues with a casual commitment—what this article calls the film's loitering cadence—an endless flirtation with various artistic forefathers that undermines patrilinear genealogy as a unified or coherent origin...
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From Cannes to Cardboard: The Circulation and Promotion of Visages Villages and the Auteur on Instagram

Matt St. John
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 155–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838589
Published: 01 May 2021
... with an unusual and intentional online presence, culminating in substantial coverage from new types of outlets when JR traveled to the Academy Awards luncheon with cardboard cutouts of Varda. After Visages Villages and the special events involved in its awards campaign, the second notable topic in her...
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Biopolitical Masochism in Marina Abramović's The Artist Is Present

Jaime Brunton
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 63–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3776868
Published: 01 May 2017
... charisma: Judith Thurman of the New Yorker  writes that even “at sixty-­ three,” “Abramovi´c radiates vitality and seduction.”3 However, as Abramovi´c has noted, “charisma” alone does not a performance make. A performance is about “presence”: the act of committing “one hundred percent” to being...
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In the Shadow

Alessandra Raengo
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 1–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2209907
Published: 01 September 2013
.... This idea concretizes Toni Morrison’s call for a literary criticism that would detect the labor that American literature has historically performed in order to disavow the way in which the African- ist presence provides both the spark and the language for the (implicitly white) American literary...
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Missing Persons and Bodies of Evidence

Ann Chisholm
Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 123–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-15-1_43-123
Published: 01 May 2000
... Lawrence’s disappearance in order to secure additional publicity and, in so doing, inadvertently began the star system is not unfamiliar. Likewise, the notion that presence and absence might converge in a relation of mutual implication...
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