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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...