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The Unicorn and the Larva: In Conversation

Anuj Vaidya, Tejal Shah
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 154–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631619
Published: 01 December 2020
...Anuj Vaidya; Tejal Shah In this performative co-interview, the unicorn (Tejal Shah) and the larva (Anuj Vaidya) reflect on their artistic practice, and the trajectory of their work from addressing issues of queer sexuality to those of queer ecology. Anuj and Tejal met at the School of the Art...
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Sharon Lockhart's Philosophy of the Casual: Toward an Eco-Cinema of Sociability

Rebecca A. Sheehan
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 31–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10654885
Published: 01 September 2023
... Sociological Society (Verhandlungen des Ersten Deutschen Soziologentages, 19–12 October 1910 in Frankfurt); English translation by Everett C. Hughes, “The Sociology of Sociability,” American Journal of Sociology 55, no. 3 (1949): 254–61. Sarah Ensor, “Queer Fallout: Samuel Delany and the Ecology of Cruising...
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Masturbatory Ecologies: Pornography, Ecosexuality, and Perverted Environmental Justice

Jeremy Chow
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 30–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631547
Published: 01 December 2020
... of ecological crisis at the hands of deforestation and porn studies with two aims. First, it highlights the fraught relationship a pornographic video aggregator like Pornhub might share with feminist and queer epistemologies. Second, it emphasizes the ecosexual nature of environmental justice by way...
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Bodies in Water: Disability Cinemas and Creatures of the Sea

Emma Ben Ayoun
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 115–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013646
Published: 01 December 2022
..., discrete entity, as readily definable and classifiable in the order of all things. In recent work, Joshua Kupetz has proposed a “disability ecology,” one that draws from both materialist feminisms and queer phenomenology to consider disability's embeddedness within a network of human and nonhuman...
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Imperceptibility and Accumulation: Political Strategies of Plastic

Heather Davis
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 187–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592543
Published: 01 September 2016
...Heather Davis Plastic is a seemingly ubiquitous material, one that is both all too visible and, as such, opaque. Beginning with the use of plastic for sex toys, this essay tracks some of the strange convergences between plastic, as a material, and queer theory. In particular, it follows how...
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Three by Three: Lisa Cholodenko’s Attachment Trilogy

Lee Wallace
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 97–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7772399
Published: 01 December 2019
... quandary insofar as the institution of marriage now includes what it was previously thought to exclude, it should come as no surprise that the trope of remar- riage might be revived and put to the task of realigning marriage with queer-inflected expectations around intimacy. For all the generic...
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Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet

Nazli Akhtari
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013590
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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Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together

Julia Leyda, Nicole Seymour
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 131–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11207841
Published: 01 September 2024
... that occur in dense urban spaces are the backbone of a healthy democracy because they entail exposure to people of diverse backgrounds. See her essay, “Queer Fallout: Samuel R. Delany and the Ecology of Cruising,” Environmental Humanities 9, no. 1 (2017): 149–66. 41. Lea Palmieri, “ Together...
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Incestuous Wanderlust: 35 Shots of Rum 's Atmospheres of Circulation

Iggy Cortez
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 61–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9561423
Published: 01 May 2022
... Volver (Spain, 2006), or the cinema of Lucrecia Martel. It should be unsurprising that these directors, like Denis, are routinely linked to a queer and feminist aesthetic that renegotiates prevailing narrative and representational idioms to signal what Ellis describes as “an urgent desire...
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Dangerous Spaces: Safe

Susan Potter
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 125–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-19-3_57-125
Published: 01 December 2004
...Susan Potter Camera Obscura 2004 Susan Potter is a postgraduate student and tutor in the Film, Television, and Media Studies Department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. A former lawyer and queer film festival programmer, she also works part-time as production manager...
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The Face Is a Politics: A Close-Up View of Julie Dash's Illusions

Nick Davis
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 149–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2704661
Published: 01 September 2014
... of contemporary narrative feature film, queer theory, and twentieth-century American literature. His first book, The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema , appeared from Oxford University Press in 2013. He is also the author of the film reviews at www.NicksFlickPicks.com . © 2014...
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The Implications of How to Survive a Plague

Richard C. Cante
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 123–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454452
Published: 01 May 2016
... of the New Queer Cinema, which had been feverishly inventing narrative forms for looking into such matters since the late 1980s, often in direct dialogue with ACT UP New York’s efforts. France’s film derives from, pays homage to, and attempts to revive or extend that energy, restituting...
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Of Housewives and Saints: Abjection, Transgression, and Impossible Mourning in Poison and Safe

Laura Christian
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 93–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-19-3_57-93
Published: 01 December 2004
... of the so-called women’s films as it is of his more explicitly queer works. The release of Far from Heaven (US/France, 2002), in fact, makes it possible (if it was not so before) to discern in Haynes’s oeuvre a pattern of alterna- Copyright © 2004 by Camera Obscura Camera Obscura 57, Volume 19...
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“The Secret's in the Sauce”: Dismembering Normativity in Fried Green Tomatoes

Jeff Berglund
Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 124–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-14-3_42-124
Published: 01 September 1999
... retrieves honeycomb from a beehive in what has been widely understood in queer readings as the first love scene of the film. In a secretive manner at the end of the film, this honey resurfaces immediately after Ninny has recounted the cannibalistic cover-up of Bennett's murder and corpse, a story she...
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Gift or Weapon? Reproductive Decision, the Phenomenology of Pregnancy, and Alien Language in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival

Naomi Morgenstern
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 103–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278614
Published: 01 May 2023
... – 20. 3. See Heather Latimer's somewhat different approach to this topic in “A Queer Pregnancy: Affective Kinship, Time Travel, and Reproductive Choice in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival ,” Feminist Theory 22, no. 3 (2021): 429 – 42. 4. Future Baby (dir. Maria Arlamovsky, Nikolaus...
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The “Newer Angels” and the Living Dead: The Ethics of Screening Obsessional Desire

Molly Anne Rothenberg
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 15–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-14-1-2_40-41-15
Published: 01 May 1997
... innumerable programs devoted to linking plagues with ecological col- lapse, encouraging us to imagine that our own lives are already cor- rupted by a death we unwittingly produce ourselves. And what of the most visible industry that flourishes by substituting life with the simu- lation of life...
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Notes on Digital Community and Revolution

Seb Franklin
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 99–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3662018
Published: 01 December 2016
... are subject to queer and queer-­of-­color critiques). Responding to the negations that arise when solidarity movements are premised on identity categories implicitly under- stood as unified and stable — so that “the category ‘woman’ negated all nonwhite women; [and the category] ‘black’ negated all non...
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Small Effects from Big Causes: The Dialogic Documentary Practice of Natalie Bookchin

Zoë Druick
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592466
Published: 01 September 2016
.... In this regard, vlogging about queerness evokes the “archive of feelings” that Ann Cvetkovich so deftly describes.51 Cvetkovich argues that the struggle to preserve the history of gay and lesbian lives means turning attention to the ephemera of the everyday and the traumas that may or may...
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Slips, Breaks, and Tangles: Creative Collaboration and the Aesthetic Process of Trans-Subjectivity

April Durham
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3662000
Published: 01 December 2016
... introduces new types of Deleuzian “machines” that turn the breakdowns in the ecologies of the self into opportunities for tending to subjectivity aside from the con- fines of power.12 The care of the self becomes the purview of both the individual and the creative collective. Collaborative...
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Warrior Marks : Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context

Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 4–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-3_39-4
Published: 01 September 1996
... (New York: Penguin Books, 1971), it is Mary Daly who is best-known for her analysis of patriarchal violence that includes "Indian" suttee, "Chinese" footbinding, and "African" genital mutilation. See Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (Bos...
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