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How the Computer Taught Us to See

Whitney (Whit) Pow
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 1–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11207789
Published: 01 September 2024
...: that seeing something is the same as understanding its nature. We must think of software history as medical history, and computer history as queer and trans history. Intimately connecting these threads of trans history, trans of color critique, medical history, and computer history is the invisibility...
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Facing Death, Choosing Life: Pose 's Positive Historiography

Henry Washington, Jr.
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11024083
Published: 01 May 2024
...Henry Washington, Jr. Abstract From the museum heist cast members perform in its first episode to the series finale, Pose (FX, 2018–2021) endeavors to complicate the dominant historical narrative of queer and trans of color life and death at the height of the AIDS pandemic. By focalizing...
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Appropriate Feminisms: Ambivalence and Citational Practice in Appropriate Behavior

Clara Bradbury-Rance
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 145–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013660
Published: 01 December 2022
... of dominant cultural production practices, however much she is interpellated by them. Akhavan, a queer woman of color in a racist, sexist, and homophobic industry, negotiates both contemporary feminism's potentials for solidarity and its intersectional shortcomings. Akhavan's autobiographical characters...
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Why Isn't Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy ? Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.'s And I Do Survive

Ani Maitra
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-007
Published: 01 September 2010
... that keeps the HIV-­positive queer woman of color at a distance and yet locates her, I will suggest, in the middle of her contradictory emotions. * 186  •  Camera Obscura Will it be a misreading of the tenor of your current work if I suggest that you don’t...
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Pretty: Film Theory, Aesthetics, and the History of the Troublesome Image

Rosalind Galt
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2009-001
Published: 01 September 2009
... shapes, and luscious color schemes which have all the traits of stage imagery. Disengaged creativity thus drifts away from the basic concerns of the medium.”22 This is a rich passage, containing many of Kracauer’s critiques of the formative: fantasy, dreamscape, theatricality, lack of concern...
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Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification

Hiram Perez
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 113–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-026
Published: 01 May 2008
... enterprise made up of women of color feminism, materialist analysis, postructuralist theory, and queer critique.” See Roderick Ferguson, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), 149n1. 3. For a discussion...
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Tongue Twisters: The Travelogue Videos of Ming-Yuen S. Ma

Peter X Feng
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 69–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1533448
Published: 01 May 2012
... by a profound ambivalence toward cinematic convention, a troubled identi cation that echoes Muñoz’s conception of “identities- in- difference.” José Esteban Muñoz, Disidenti cations: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, ; Peter X...
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“I'm Very Rich, Bitch!”: The Melodramatic Money Shot and the Excess of Racialized Gendered Affect in the Real Housewives Docusoaps

Alessa Dominguez
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2885486
Published: 01 May 2015
... by white representations while also critiquing the heteronormativity of latinidad.36 For the purposes of this article, I define queer of color camp as a sensibility that functions through gay men of color and black women s humorous parody and contestation of the stereotypical framings of the racialized...
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Queer Film Settings as Sites of Resistance

Serdar Küçük
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 95–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8359530
Published: 01 September 2020
... in the dark, while Keng, who belongs to civilization, returns to the city by his bike on a brightly lit road. Queer Film Settings 113 However, with a stark change of setting, ambiance, color scheme, and performance in the second part of the film, Keng (now the hunter, Ekarat) is forced to face his deepest...
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Diversity Times Three: The “ Modern Family Effect” and the Privatization of Diversity

Douglas S. Ishii
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4205066
Published: 01 December 2017
... of a demographic of classed viewers who find themselves and their values reflected in the Pritchetts of Modern Family . Copyright © 2017 Camera Obscura 2017 Modern Family diversity television race queer-of-color critique Figure 1. Dr. Miura (Suzy Nakamura) holding Lily in “Fears” (Modern Family...
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Biometrics and Opacity: A Conversation

Zach Blas, Jacob Gaboury
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 155–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592510
Published: 01 September 2016
.... And some people must turn their faces into weapons to survive. Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa writes about “making face” as a strategy many women of color use against oppression and patriarchy.10 The female Algerian free- dom fighters in the 1966 filmThe Battle of Algiers (dir. Gillo Pon...
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Performing Essentialism: Reassessing Barbara Hammer's Films of the 1970s

Greg Youmans
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727473
Published: 01 December 2012
.../October For s critiques of cultural feminism as a white women’s • Camera Obscura pursuit, see Audre Lorde, “An Open Letter to Mary Daly,” in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, ed. Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, rd ed. (Berkeley: Third...
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In Practice: Queerness and Games

Diana Pozo, Bonnie Ruberg, Chris Goetz
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3925167
Published: 01 September 2017
... histories, and gaming credentials were pulled apart both in professional contexts and on social media. Though aimed at excluding women, people of color, and queer and transgender folks from video game fandom, this harassment brought even greater attention to the importance of queer perspectives...
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Contributors

Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 262–263.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11-12-3-1_33-34-262
Published: 01 May 1994
... at work on a book, National Television, on US television’s production of national subjectivity since 263 1968, and on an anthology about race and television to be called Living Color. Wendy Wahl is a freelance technical writer and computer interface designer living in Seattle. Susan White...
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The Fabulous Sublimity of Gay Diva Worship

Brett Farmer
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 165–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-20-2_59-165
Published: 01 September 2005
... superior white man uses the recorded voice of the female soprano to enlighten and forge friendship with a socially subordinate man of color. I would not want to discount the legitimacy and insight of these critiques, but there is another—and to my mind more interesting—process of translation...
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The Asexual-Single and the Collective: Remaking Queer Bonds in (A)sexual, Bill Cunningham New York , and Year of the Dog

Marc Francis
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 27–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454419
Published: 01 May 2016
... of sexual fulfillment that are taken for granted in most liberal and even in more radical queer politics. In the end, these films incisively critique definitions of romance and love by extending them beyond oversaturated normative connotations and into the less defined—potentially more public—terrains...
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Nonmaterial Overelaboration: Gender, Casting, and Camouflaged Labor in Pat Rocco's Promotional Travelogue

Finley Freibert
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 89–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10654913
Published: 01 September 2023
... “Capitalism and Gay Identity” underscored the urgency with which gay historiography should centralize material inequality, queer media studies have not sustained a focus on socioeconomic matters. 54 While certainly the field of queer-of-color critique has brought in crucial work attentive to race and class...
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The Kids Are All Right , the Pursuits of Happiness, and the Spaces Between

Jodi Brooks
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 111–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2408534
Published: 01 May 2014
... occupies an in-­between space as a result of its movements between different genres, audiences, and agen- das, I will look at the film’s textual aspects — including its color palette, juxtaposition of different rhythms of movement, and jux- taposition of scenes with music and scenes without...
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“Of la Baker, I Am a Disciple”: The Diva Politics of Reception

Jeanne Scheper
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 73–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-004
Published: 01 September 2007
... with the wonderfully complex person formally known as Freda McDonald who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906” (harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor, organized by Thelma Golden [New York: Studio Museum of Harlem, 2004], 92). 3. See José Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color...
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“Wish We Didn't Have to Meet Secretly?”: Negotiating Contemporary Space in the Lesbian-Bar Documentary

Kelly Hankin
Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 35–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-15-3_45-35
Published: 01 December 2001
... “color-blind” community. As lesbian bars historically have been 02-Hankin.sh 34-69-=36pg 4/18/01 3:59 PM Page 57 “Wish We Didn’t Have to Meet Secretly?” • 57 marked by racial divisiveness, particularly related to de facto seg...
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