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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 37–65.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Jennifer González Contemporary digital artists have been exploring the function of the face and its relation to public space for several decades. This essay offers a close reading of artworks by Keith Piper, Nancy Burson, Keith Obadike, and the collective Mongrel that address the relation between...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 65–89.
Published: 01 September 2011
... roots to a collection of British programs offering advice to parents in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as well as to the longer-standing British tradition of public service broadcasting that sought to “better its audience,” we argue that the program departs from that legacy in its commercialization...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 50–72.
Published: 01 January 1990
...Miriam Hansen Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990
Adventures of Goldilocks: Spectatorship,
Consumerism and Public Life
Miriam Hansen
In the weeks following Valentino’s death in August 1926, millions of
American women went to see The Son of the Sheik...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 18–54.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Lisa Cartwright Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Highlights aztd Shadows (James Sibley Watson for Kodak Research
Laboratories, USA, 1937)
Women, X-rays, and the Public Culture
of Prophylactic Imaging
Lisa Cat-twright...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 92–111.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Phillip Brian Harper Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980)
Playing in the Dark: Privacy, Public Sex,
and the Erotics of the Cinema Venue
Phillip Brian Harper
I. Toilet
Public sex loomed large in the popular consciousness...
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in Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 1. Postcard published by Ross-Verlag. Publicity still for Daughter of the Dragon (dir. Lloyd Corrigan, US, 1931). Paramount Pictures Corporation. Author's collection
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in Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1. The publicity poster for the film Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021) showcases the two protagonists sitting against a blue-green background stippled with paint swatches.
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in Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 2. Publicity still for Daughter of the Dragon (dir. Lloyd Corrigan, US, 1931). Paramount Pictures Corporation
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Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., and relationships. Specifically, I consider two facets of the series. One is its appropriation of controversial issues in popular discourse. The second is the public response to Dwelling Narrowness , ranging from netizens' and public authorities' reactions to the controversial issues it depicted to Chinese scholars...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 103–131.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Yosefa Loshitzky One of the most engaging, yet controversial, public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt continues to be attacked with the same venom and ferocity that followed the publication of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) more than fifty years...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 209–219.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Lynne Joyrich Recently, there has been an explosion of charges of sexual violence and assault within the worlds of media, journalism, and entertainment, with female stars leading the way in making these charges of sexual misconduct public. Indeed, stars—located at precisely the boundaries...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 177–183.
Published: 01 December 2016
... focuses on the censorship of femininity and sexuality in Italian cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. For the project, Radha May retrieved censored scenes that had never been seen in public and created a film installation, a performance, and a digital publication. She distributed the recovered material further...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2024
...—television—in its story of queer activism. This article considers the significance that Riot accords television as a public, historically conscious, family-oriented, and nation-building medium that converges with and enables gay activism as well as new forms of sexual subjectivity and self-expression...
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in What's Your Color? Mood Conditioning the Postwar Domestic Interior
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 6. “The Color Kit.” From “A Catalogue of Books on Color by Faber Birren” (Westport, CT: Crimson, 1942). Box 1, Faber Birren Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library
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in What's Your Color? Mood Conditioning the Postwar Domestic Interior
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 7. “The Gloray Prism.” From “A Catalogue of Books on Color by Faber Birren” (Westport, CT: Crimson, 1942). Box 1, Faber Birren Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 67–107.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Eden Osucha This essay explores how the early history of the American right to privacy, first expressed in the law as a right to media privacy, reflects the racialization of concepts of privacy and publicity in nineteenth-century visual culture. Where standard scholarly treatments focus...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2012
... capacity to educate the moviegoing public about the fine arts and artistic labor, fulfilling a potential uplifting mission for cinema; to approve without modification would set precedent for allowance of the nude female figure throughout film, which board members opposed as dangerously provocative...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 33–63.
Published: 01 December 2014
... into national news. This study highlights how television news made local protests meaningful for national audiences, how McCabe articulated private and public identities of motherhood that both troubled and exemplified television's boundaries between the private and public spheres, and how McCabe's self...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... Via interviews with collective members, screenings of archival works, and autoethnographic and archival research, the author examines the sites of feeling that accompanied the collective production of media works, as well as changes in public policy and the rise of neoliberal regulation that have...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Diana Pozo; Bonnie Ruberg; Chris Goetz Queer gamers have always been a part of video game culture. However, since the mid-2000s, the growing importance of fans to media consumption and the rise to prominence of the independent game industry have helped bring public recognition and awareness...
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