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Slips, Breaks, and Tangles: Creative Collaboration and the Aesthetic Process of Trans-Subjectivity
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to confront. The questions that this article pose are: How does one attend to the needs of the individual alongside the challenges set forth by the group without the requirement to balance failure and breakdown against success and coherence? What processes might facilitate this balance? From within...
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Overcoming the resistance of her own body in the very process of its commod...
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in Looking for Something New: Antonioni's La notte and Specters of Femininity
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 7. Overcoming the resistance of her own body in the very process of its commodification. La notte (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy/France, 1961)
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Agnès Varda: Photography and Early Creative Process
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 215–229.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the stunning scope of her planning and enable new understandings of her early creative process. Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2021 Agnès Varda photography La Pointe Courte L'Opéra Mouffe Figure 1. Agnès Varda's scouting photographs for La Pointe...
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Art on Film at Finch College: Reproductive Labor in the Enrichment Economy
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 81–101.
Published: 01 May 2023
... by the museum's curator, Elayne Varian, from 1966 to 1975. This article addresses how ideas of process, reproduction, and documentation were being reconfigured at Finch, especially in film and media art of the 1960s. Robert Morris's film installation, Finch College Project (US, 1969), is emblematic of this larger...
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Queer Structure, Animated Form, and Really Rosie
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Nick Salvato With an emphasis on the animated special Really Rosie (CBS, 1975), this essay explores the queer capacities of limited cel animation, an artistic and technical mode that provides striking occasions for figuring both queer ’s potential and its circumscriptions. In the process, the essay...
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Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 141–171.
Published: 01 December 2023
... and computer use to work out a theory of user history and user time emerging in 1990s US culture. The comics reveal that the process of becoming user is always intersecting with the processes of becoming a racialized, gendered, classed, (dis)abled subject. They also open up the possibility for other...
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Chantal Akerman in London
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 185–195.
Published: 01 May 2019
... Journal . This essay aims to reveal the collaborative nature of the working processes behind this project and the organic manner in which it developed as well as the challenges it posed at a critical time in the artists’ lives. In its totality the project and indeed its process, with its multiplicity...
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Collective Writing Projects Online and the Challenges of the Promise Economy
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 65–97.
Published: 01 December 2016
... such as cooperative writing, whose dynamics urge participants to create ever-higher expectations for the final product often before the process of creation has even started. This article's analysis of such economies surrounding online creative collaborations and its examination of the dialectics between literary...
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“Little girls and the things that they love”: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , Audience, Identity, and the Privilege of Contemporary Fan Culture
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to its online fandom, an audience employing channels of expression from which young people are effectively excluded. These developments function to marginalize the series' core audience—“little girls”—in a process of appropriation and redefinition that ultimately serves the interests of a more visible...
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In Practice: Queerness and Games
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to the intersection of video games and LGBTQ issues. The interdisciplinary conference includes award-winning game designers and leading academics in queer and video game studies, and its format combines presentation styles common in the game industry, such as the “postmortem,” which describes the design process...
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Diversity Times Three: The “ Modern Family Effect” and the Privatization of Diversity
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the program’s pedagogy of middlebrow cultural citizenship. Modern Family thus expresses the privatization of diversity, or how turns to private personhood become an affective form of management that translates moralisms about diversity into symbolic capital. This process maintains the distinction...
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Cinderella Man: Russell Crowe as Il Diva
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 47–67.
Published: 01 May 2008
... as an authentic “work in progress” with the superficial “finished product” that is the diva. Through a process of the melodramatic emergence of character, Crowe becomes a star who is always “finding himself,” avoiding the narcissism of a to-be-revered divalike object of worship. His emergence is traceable...
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A Permeable Practice: Shortbus and the Politics of Cinematic Collaboration
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 5–25.
Published: 01 May 2016
...”—their openness to new ideas, new people, and new connections—that makes them sane. This notion provides a way of thinking about the aesthetic and political stakes of a collaborative process of creative production, such as the one employed in the making of Shortbus and made visible in its final form. This essay...
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Puppet Love: Documenting Ventriloquism in Nina Conti's Her Master's Voice
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Sarah Kessler As an audiovisual medium rooted in processes of synchronization, film has sometimes been metaphorized as ventriloquism. At the levels of film genre and form, documentary cinema in particular has also been called ventriloquial, owing to its frequent emphasis on giving voice...
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Collectivity in (Stop-)Motion: Lift Animation, Lantern Software, and the Making of Community
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 165–173.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Donna Kornhaber This article positions the work of the feminist animation studio Lift Animation as a corrective to the industrialized processes and gendered hierarchies of traditional commercial animation studios. It examines Lift's unique place in the world of contemporary animation as a studio...
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Memory Resurrected in HD: Collective Digital Video Filmmaking as Production of Counterhistory in the Folk Memory Project
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 175–185.
Published: 01 May 2016
... the filmmaking process and the filming subjects, demonstrating self-reflexive performativity more than transparent authenticity. It is such performativity that mediates between the past and the present, between the individual and the collective. As a participatory performance of filmmaking, the Folk Memory...
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The Fold of Undetectable
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 167–173.
Published: 01 September 2016
... on the world. The undetectable, like the monad, is both object and process, unfolding on a field of vision. Figure 1. Tablet III from Protogaea by Gottfried Wilhelm von
Leibniz (1749). GC6.L5316.749p, Houghton Library,
Harvard University
IN PRACTICE: OPACITIES
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Working It: Gene Tierney, Laura , and Wartime Beautification
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 161–195.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and publicity that surrounded Tierney’s transformation. It argues that her shifting star image accommodated the different conceptions of the Laura character both at diegetic and extradiegetic levels, but made haute couture beauty accessible to the home front by concealing an ornamental process of female...
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Our Way of Working: A Conversation with Claire Atherton about Chantal Akerman
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 13–29.
Published: 01 May 2019
... together, from shooting the stage performance of Letters Home in 1986 to the process of combining images and sounds in Akerman’s final works, the film No Home Movie (France/Belgium) and the multichannel installation piece Now , both 2015. Works mentioned include D’Est ( From the East , France/Belgium, 1993...
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CHANTAL? A Dialogue with Sonia Wieder-Atherton
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 197–217.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of music and film, the collaborative process between the artists, and how their collaboration shape-shifted over time. Three early short films (1986–89) chart Sonia’s first appearances, leading to Chantal’s invitation to shape the music of Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family, and Philosophy (France/Belgium...
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