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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 105–117.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Ronald Gregg Abstract Lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer turned from experimental filmmaking to feature-length documentaries in the early 1990s. These late documentaries illustrate her distinct perspective on queer history and affect, which was influenced by 1970s lesbian feminism and queer...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 37–67.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Woolf's modernist “moment of being”; the performativity of gender and kinship (Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick); and theories of queer time and affect (Judith Halberstam, Elizabeth Freeman, Lauren Berlant). These readings probe The Hours 's return to mediated cultural ideals of white conjugal...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
...–), this article demonstrates how the program's interest in staging the excess of racialized gender is structured through a white racial imaginary, which is contested by cast members in each season's reunion episode. The article ends with a consideration of the way in which queer of color camp affectively...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 41–69.
Published: 01 September 2019
... deploys a sentimental lexicon of rights and recognition for transformative ends: to center queer female migrant workers as historical protagonists in struggles for social justice and transformation and as an inspirational source for radical aesthetics. Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019 affect...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2013
... in the pleasurable investments of certain communities of viewers. Wood's and Doty's “low” archives were their own personal experiences and contingent affective responses. These are the very foundations of queer theory, grounded in what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick identified as antihomophobic critical practice, that Wood...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 165–195.
Published: 01 September 2005
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of those painful experiences of exclusion and oppression that
continue to be structural features of queer selfhood in a hetero-
normative world.15 Further, as I hope my discussion will by this
stage at least have signaled, gay diva worship may take much of
its initial affective drive from...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
Published: 01 September 2013
... into alignment. What this essay explores is a certain perversion of these forms of temporal matching — or what I am calling queer sound tracks: image-sound relations unfixed in ways that are not only dynamic aesthetically but that also evoke an affective, diachronic bond to the past. What is heard during...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2015
... investigates racialized gendered excess through a queer affective lens. Andi: Sounds great. . . . I can t wait to get started reading all those pieces! Lynne, Misha, and Brenda: We hope you enjoy them! And don t forget: the more you read in feminist TV studies, the more interesting TV is! Notes 1. Big Brother...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Lilia Kilburn This article responds to the call, long latent in queer theory, for more nuanced portrayals of vocality. As Andrew Anastasia writes in the introductory issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly , accounts of vocality that consider only the voice’s discursive or linguistic qualities...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 133–163.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of an alternative queer affective archive in Journeys . Photos of young female revolutionaries are situated alongside everyday household objects—Anna Balabanoff beside a tea kettle and dreamcatcher ( fig. 7 ) and Meinhof next to pill bottles and a box of fish fingers ( fig. 8 ). As a result of their peculiar...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 95–119.
Published: 01 December 2024
... terms critical otiosity, a process through which to vitalize with trans Latinx liberatory possibilities the seemingly superfluous, unproductive, irrelevant, and other pilloried and/or overlooked affective comportments found in the filmic outtakes, this article mounts a rereading of Paris Is Burning...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 41–59.
Published: 01 May 2021
... part of Varda's film corpus and of her feminist investigations of different subjectivities and desires, of the affective worlds of contemporary women and children. It takes shape in her tenderness for Jane Birkin, but also in light of her own clearer thinking about childhood, nostalgia, and fantasy...
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Why Isn't Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy ? Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.'s And I Do Survive
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
Published: 01 September 2010
... citizenship as a legal status and affective performance of the subject desiring citizenship. Camera Obscura 2010 Ani Maitra is a graduate student in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, with interests in queer diasporic film and literature, working at the intersection...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 5–25.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Cassavetes. What Mitchell and Cassavetes share is an investment in performances that foreground the affective, contingent, and interactive and thereby serve as a site where art and life meet. With its hard-core element, however, Shortbus expands the possibilities of such a meeting in the service of a queer...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Nazli Akhtari Abstract This article reveals how engagements with the photographic archives of premodern Iran and the Persian carpet break open transtemporal, affective, and queer interplays in diaspora. Examining a digital remix of a photograph of a Qajar princess, ‘Ismat al-Dowlah, from...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2017
... queer per-
spective, the bad old days are rife with queer potential. Abjection,
shame, despair: queer theorists have long found these affective
positions productive and continue to mine them, both in general
as well as with respect to this historical era. Shahani describes how,
in opposition...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 121–154.
Published: 01 December 2017
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ters in She Monkeys and how these might speak to, and resonate
with, queer habits, alignments, and tendencies. Notions of orienta-
tion, habits, alignments, and tendencies as affective, sensuous, and
embodied are key throughout for understandings of both queer-
ness and cinema, including its draw...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
Published: 01 September 2017
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(Mattie Brice, 2012), and Lim (Merritt Kopas, 2012), for example —
had been canonized by academics and the press as part of a “queer
games scene” that expanded the kinds of stories that could be told
in games, as well as games’ affective range, visual style, and proce-
dural rhetoric.3 Some games...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
... interested in preserving affect than in collecting
positive images. Inspired by the Five Lesbian Brothers’ strategies,
this article takes the fan as a model for the archivist. The archivist
of queer culture must proceed like the fan or collector whose
attachment to objects is often fetishistic...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 27–63.
Published: 01 May 2016
... within coupled life at the
same time that the protagonist — coded as she may be — affectively
performs femininity to serve as a surrogate for the film’s queer
male auteur. As illustrated above, in Bill Cunningham New York Cun-
ningham is positioned as a victim of homophobia within religious...
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