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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
...Hanna Kuusela This article investigates collaborative and crowdsourced online writing projects and the economies surrounding them. It describes the conjunctures between collective creativity and contemporary economic regimes and introduces the concept of the promise economy. The article discusses...
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Technophalia
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 103–128.
Published: 01 May 1997
... barometer-in order to keep
reproductive health in good working order clearly signifies other anx-
ieties about keeping the circulation of an industrial economy in a
similarly healthy, productive condition. Are there interesting parallels
and differences to the figuration...
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The Forgotten Man; or, How Hollywood Invented Welfare
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 74–107.
Published: 01 September 2006
...
life, “hoping to forget and to be forgotten,” until southern pride
and the local economy require him to perform in an exhibition
match with Bobby Jones ( Joel Gretsch) and Walter Hagen (Bruce
McGill). With the help of the title character (played by Will Smith),
a magical black caddie who...
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Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 215–234.
Published: 01 September 1985
... the brutal hero (e.g., Richardson’s
Pameh). However, Modleski is least hopeful about the Harlequin’s
utopian promises. She claims that these narratives place the reader into a
kind of ‘ ‘split consciousness,” incite guilt feelings, and might actually
induce female hysteria...
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Blog Ambition: Fashion, Feelings, and the Political Economy of the Digital Raced Body
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
... invisible in (but nonetheless constitutive of) the fantasies fashion tells. Minh-Ha T. Pham is currently a research fellow at the Beatrice Bains Center for Critical Gender and Women Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her writings on the political economies of fashion, popular culture...
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India's Daughter : It Is Time to Retire the Realist Rape Documentary
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 119–143.
Published: 01 September 2023
... actually came from very similar backgrounds, their families fleeing rural economies of poverty due to economic liberalization and the promise of jobs in Delhi in the late 1980s and 1990s. 31 The film instead frames Pandey as the gendered symbol of a modern India attacked by the uneducated male urban...
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Yellowness as Transpacific Technology: Cinematic Regimes of Race between Japan and Brazil
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., seeing cinema is seeing one's racial difference: the cinematic body exists in a libidinal economy that secures the inscription of the spectator into the demand to become white. More important, once the yellow male spectator—Murayama himself—is inscribed into this scene of racialization, its violence...
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Notes on Digital Community and Revolution
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 99–131.
Published: 01 December 2016
... movements. This is pre-
mised on the familiar trope of interactive media as inherently dem-
ocratic, now reprised in a form that promises collective, rather than
individual, empowerment. The use of the phrase “Twitter revolu-
tion” to describe the recent antigovernment protests in Moldova,
Iran...
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Wages for Face-Work: Black Mirror ’s “Nosedive” and Digital Reproductive Labor
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 88–115.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and social life (and thus also the global economy), which is compelled through normative idealizations that erase its status as labor. Reading the episode and the contemporary social media economy in dialogue with the Marxist feminist Wages for Housework movement, the essay argues that individual social...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 165–195.
Published: 01 May 2023
... bargains of living and dying in (Trump’s) America. The postfeminist script contextualizing such right-wing transgression animates affective and psychic investments, which operate in and through the fantasies, feelings, and subjectivities of those who subscribe to its economy of regulation. As Gill...
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The Reserve Army of Affectivity: Unemployed Labor in William Greaves's Psychodramatic Cinéma Vérité
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
Published: 01 May 2022
... affective labor cinéma vérité psychodrama training film 4. Jan M. Padios, “Mining the Mind: Emotional Extraction, Productivity, and Predictability in the Twenty-First Century,” Cultural Studies 31, nos. 2–3 (2017): 205–31. 5. Kalindi Vora, “The Transmission of Care: Affective Economies...
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Julie Andrews Made Me Gay
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 144–153.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., value-adding economies of divadom have
been a rich resource for this process of queer self-making and
legitimation.
Transformational empowerment is one of the crucial signs
of the Julie Andrews star image and thus by implication a key
source of its queer appeal.7...
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Vision, Desire, and the Film-Text
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 54–89.
Published: 01 December 1980
.... It is here that the
question of woman’s image, in fact her cupitulizution by certain opera-
tions in the textual economy, locates its degrees of specificity in a possi-
ble catalogue of the codes which function as the signifiers of desire in
the fiction film...
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Making Television Live: Mediating Biopolitics in Obesity Programming
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
... more surprising—and more recent—promise of the medium: that TV can in fact keep the viewer alive by helping her lose weight. While the proliferation of reality TV formats and lifestyle programming has marked the increased visibility of corpulent bodies on television, how is it that a medium once...
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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
... recreation culture and
the consumer economy. Such questions arose particularly in the
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context of urban communities where young women lived and
worked, often outside the immediate supervision of their fami-
lies. “Shopgirls...
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Adventures of Goldilocks: Spectatorship, Consumerism and Public Life
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 50–72.
Published: 01 January 1990
...-centered
economy to one of mass consumption crucially depended upon the
female shopper whose numbers had increased ever since the Civil War;
by 1915, “women were doing between 80 and 85 percent of the
consumer purchasing in the United States.”6 For middle-class women...
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The “Newer Angels” and the Living Dead: The Ethics of Screening Obsessional Desire
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 15–41.
Published: 01 May 1997
.... In a simple moral
economy, the removal of evil (the man) would liberate the good (the
two women together, free to determine their own fates). But the ending
of the film which appears to warrant the promise of eternal love
between Sam and Molly, the generic message of the sentimental ro-
mance...
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Total Recall : Production, Revolution, Simulation-Alienation Effect
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 4–40.
Published: 01 September 1993
..., as manufac-
turing “disappears,” having been displaced along with Necessity to
the periphery (here Mars), the core turns to the production of leisure,
one increasingly important aspect of which “service” economy is the
merchandising of luxury life-style commodities like tourism...
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Melancholic Arrangements: Music, Queer Melodrama, and the Seeds of Transformation in The Hours
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 105–145.
Published: 01 May 2006
... that the abstraction and musi-
cal celebration at the close of the film, in its attempts to reassure
against the suicide of Virginia Woolf, may simply produce another
sort of melancholic avoidance, a musical return to an illusion-
ary plenitude that promises an “always” beyond material bodies,
time, and trauma...
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Archiving Feeling in Yvonne Rainer's Journeys from Berlin/1971
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 133–163.
Published: 01 May 2023
... generate promises of happiness within an economy of attachment. Love for one's state and one's family are recapitulated and shifted from the realm of obligation, with its underlying tones of drudging labor, to that of intimacy. No longer the signifiers of nagging responsibility, they instead abound...
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