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Vincent Price and Me: Imagining the Queer Male Diva
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 146–150.
Published: 01 May 2008
... at the Movies (2004) and Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America (2006). Vincent Price and Me:
Imagining the Queer Male Diva
Harry M. Benshoff
I do not know when I first became aware of Vincent Price, but
by the age of ten I had developed an intense fixation on him...
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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
...Shilyh Warren This article analyzes Performing the Border (dir. Ursula Biemann, Switzerland and Mexico, 1999), Señorita extraviada ( Missing Young Woman , dir. Lourdes Portillo, Mexico, 2001), and The Price of Sex (dir. Mimi Chakarova, US, 2011), three documentaries that focus on the ways that poor...
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Notes on Distribution
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 151–156.
Published: 01 May 1979
...Freude Copyright © 1979 by Camera Obscura 1979 Bibliography 16mm Distribution, published by Educational Film Library Association, 43 West 61st Street, New York City 10023. Price: $6.00. Non-Theatrical Film Distributors, published by Educational Film Library Association, address above...
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Documenting Modern-Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic: An Interview with Amy Serrano
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 161–171.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... For example, one of the jokes repeated among Domini-
cans is that “it is easier to replace a Haitian than a farm animal
because you can get five Haitians for the price of one ox.” What
this means is that, if a Haitian loses a limb or gets sick while work-
ing, [he or she is] expendable and replaceable...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2008
... family
and friends.”
On the queer side of all things diva, male divas, drag and/
or transgender divas, and transsexual divas are represented in the
remaining appreciations. Reportedly straight in real life, Vincent
Price, with his “mellifluous voice and epicurean demeanor,” along-
side his...
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Diva Traffic and Male Bonding in Film: Teaching Opera, Learning Gender, Race, and Nation
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 47–73.
Published: 01 September 2004
... to pursue his dreams of becoming a writer.
The filmmakers lost potentially rich possibilities of irony and sub-
version by not using the African American Leontyne Price’s
recording of “D’amor sull’ali rosee.” Price’s Leonora is legendary.
Critics are unanimous in their unqualified praise of her record...
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Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
Published: 01 September 2014
... success is mainly attributable to
the story’s main threads: the skyrocketing price of apartments in
the city, mistresses (er nai), and corruption.2 Liu Liu, who wrote the
script for Dwelling Narrowness, said that she did not expect the
series to become such a hit but that astronomical...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Price, Joan Sutherland, Diahann Carroll, and even Shari
Lewis — or should I say Shari Lewis as Lambchop? When I look
back over this list of women, it strikes me that, as with the Blessed
Virgin Mary (who somehow is revered for having had a child who
was not her husband’s), their public...
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Hoodoo Economics: White Men's Work and Black Men's Magic in Contemporary American Film
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 27–55.
Published: 01 September 2003
...
economic disempowerment. Indeed, the main character in the
film, David Dunn, played by Bruce Willis, is defined economically
first by his wife, who requires that he abandon his career in order
to act in accord with her values, and then by the mysterious black
man, Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), who...
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Lois Weber, Progressive Cinema, and the Fate of “The Work-a-Day Girl” in Shoes
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 141–169.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., was brought to the fore when
Weber returned to the shopgirl theme one year later with her pop-
ular film The Price of a Good Time (US, 1917), adding enhanced ele-
ments of realism by filming on location in a Los Angeles depart-
ment store.38 While much of the plot remains the same—Linnie
(Mildred Harris...
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Is it Fake?: Black Women's Hair as Spectacle and Spec(tac)ular
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 12–31.
Published: 01 September 1995
... for discrimination because
they charged more to style her hair because she is Black. Grider, who
called the salon to get prices for the services she was requesting before
she went in, was told that it would cost her $20.00 for a wash, blow
dry, and style. Upon arriving at the salon...
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Hitchcock's Secret Agency
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 34–49.
Published: 01 May 1992
... Press, 1974 . Norton , Rictor “An Interview with Eric Bentley.” College English , 36 , 3 (November 1974 ): 291 —302. Price , Theodore Hitchcock and Homosexuality: His 50-Year Obsession with Jack the Ripper and the Superbitch Prostitute—A Psychoanalytic View . Metuchen, NJ...
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Věra Chytilová's The Fruit of Paradise : A Tale of a Feminine Aesthetic, Dancing Color, and a Doll Who Kills the Devil
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 65–91.
Published: 01 December 2014
... menacing masculinity
of the devilish, red-toned (from red earth to crimson) Robert.
Color is a difficult subject of discussion for film and art
criticism, as Brian Price, Rosalind Galt, and others observe, to
the point where some scholars, such as David Batchelor, posit its
neglect...
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“Presentifying” Film and Media Feminism
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 65–68.
Published: 01 May 2006
... to Pearl White, Nell
Shipman, and a generally unseen period of film history rife with
female action heroes, so be it. In sum, I welcome such pedagogi-
cal challenges. Rethinking our syllabi is a small price to pay for
the intellectual freedom and diversity we have, indeed, won. God
knows...
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Regretting Nothing, or Regretting Everything? Postfeminism, Femininity, and Regret in Miss Austen Regrets
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 41–69.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and a cognitive process, regret is further striated. Philosophers and ethicists distinguish between “agent-regret,” 36 “character regret,” 37 and “mere” or “bystander regret,” 38 while Carolyn Price adds “sickened regret” and “bitter regret” to the previously formulated conceptions of “hot regret...
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La passion, c'est pas ça
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 7–11.
Published: 01 December 1982
... of ambivalence, aggression and idealization
which characterizes this film.
What is at the beginning held out to us as the possibility of difference
turns into an impossibility in this no-win logic of ambivalence, where
difference can exist only at the price oflived sexual relations...
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The Cabinet of Dr. Pee-wee: Consumerism and Sexual Terror
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 133–154.
Published: 01 May 1988
... the door, he hesitates and asks, “What’s
the offer?” The Salesman makes him an offer he can’t refuse, free foil
for his ever-expanding foil ball. Pee-wee grabs the foil, invites the
Salesman in, and even directs him to the refreshment table. Everyone
has a price. Repeatedly in the Playhouse...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 176–179.
Published: 01 December 1986
... Press. Sydney, Australia, 1985.
The Legend of Maya Deren: A Documentary Biography and Collected Works
edited by Veve A. Clark, Millicent Hodson, Catrina Neiman and Francine
Bailey Price. Anthology Film Archives. New York, 1985. $22.50.
The Light on Her Face by Joseph Walker, ASC, and Juanita...
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The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong's Yellow Yellowface Performance in the Art Deco Era
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... ( Jameson Thomas),
whom Sho-sho desires, Sho-sho clearly holds the commanding
position. She first persuades the Asian man to don the androg-
ynous costume and display it to the boss. Then she succeeds in
making the boss purchase it at an inflated price by declaring that
she shall either dance...
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Marcia Butzel
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 111–115.
Published: 01 December 1989
... feminine and masculine positions
at the price of not being a subject.
As it turned out then, I bought into the negativity of this approach
to the female subject to such an extent that I almost avoided questions
about female spectatorship. Although my chapter emphasized...
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