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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 24–53.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Judith Mayne Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
Soviet Film Montage and the Woman Question
Judith Mayne
Virtually all critics of Soviet film of the 1920s would agree that the
development of the cinema needs...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 177–189.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., and
the Question of Feminist Form:
A Conversation with Zoe Leonard
Huey Copeland
Over the last two decades, the American artist Zoe Leonard (b.
1961) has emerged as one of the most visually attuned photogra-
phers of her generation, using images as a means of documenta-
tion, invention...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2018
... by a hatred of cultural and religious difference, in which the cosmopolitan questions raised by Potter’s love story have become ever more urgent. Responding to the renewed interest in cosmopolitanism in the cinema and beyond, it argues that the geopolitical situation today warrants renewed discussion...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 197–207.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Pooja Rangan; Brett Story; Paige Sarlin Scholar Pooja Rangan and filmmaker-scholars Brett Story and Paige Sarlin engage in a conversation about documentary theory and practice emerging from the questions posed by Rangan’s book Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (published by Duke...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2021
...-Demeter: The More I Give the More You Steal” (1994). Addressing how the latter presents an origin myth for the artist, the essay underscores Schneemann's struggle over questions of genealogy, alliance, influence, and debt. On the question of debt, particular attention is given to its quality...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2022
...) and When We Leave ( Die Fremde , dir. Feo Aladağ, Germany, 2010), calls attention to the continuity of the captivity narrative, with its troubling themes, and asks the question of intent. As scholars have indicated in the case of Turkish German cinema, filmmakers have frequently been faced with the task...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 165–173.
Published: 01 May 2016
... concerned especially with questions of alterity, subjecthood, and community formation in its work. A self-described “socially conscious animation studio,” Lift is structured roughly along the lines of an artistic collective in which many animators freely contribute their skills and time in support of stop...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 81–109.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of the title term, “female sensibility,” and its twin concept, “female imagery.” Through its irony, Benglis' work in turn poses larger questions about the production and consumption of female sexual imagery by women artists: how does an artist project herself into her work? How does she define her practice...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2008
... muscleman (Hercules, Samson) in a mythical universe of dragons, witches, and evil emperors. This article targets a specific question about these mid-century Italian peplum films: how do they handle the “problem” of their obvious nonheteronormative attractions, well-oiled and nearly naked bodybuilders, whose...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 29–67.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Linda Williams This essay's point of departure is the question of how images of death and torture are literally and metaphorically framed by the people who take them and how they are further received by the publics who see them. Beginning with a comparison of two digital headshots of an Arab enemy...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 101–141.
Published: 01 December 2011
... readings of Vertigo reflect pivotal debates in film theory, particularly psychoanalytic readings of gender politics that question the status of the “real,” leading to the crisis of representation and of our understanding of subjectivity. Rather than evaluate which particular interpretation is better...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... Series, an eight-film series inspired by an exhibit curated by Jacques Derrida at the Louvre and by his accompanying exhibition guide, both titled Memoirs of the Blind . Detailing the experiences of relocated Cambodian women rendered psychosomatically sightless, Ekleipsis attends to questions of sight...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 137–147.
Published: 01 December 2012
... that support experimental art practices. However, one surprising continuity emerged in discussion at the 2010 congress: namely, the still fraught question of what constitutes adequate representation of minority voices. Despite the widespread tendency to assume that identity politics and representation...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 83–111.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., creeping underneath the window of the trailer in which Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother. The question is how much the critical posthumanist viewer feels at ease with that evangelical subtext. This essay argues that however self-reflexive Rosetta may show itself in its flirtation with Christian...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 13–29.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Ivone Margulies This interview with film editor Claire Atherton focuses on her three-decade collaboration on the films and installations of Chantal Akerman (1950–2015). Questioned by Akerman scholar Ivone Margulies, Atherton describes her meeting and rapport with Akerman and their way of working...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 195–207.
Published: 01 September 2019
... depict printed matter from the postmodern period that include photographs of female models posed as if they are shooting playful selfportraits in a mirror, acting as if they are themselves the photographer. Taking Collier’s work as evidence, this essay asks questions about how and why the selfie is so...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 41–69.
Published: 01 September 2019
... through these questions, the article studies the documentary work of queer-feminist migrant labor activism in East Asia. This work offers particularly valuable insight into a strategy summarized here as sentimental activism : the simultaneous repetition and radical decentering of liberal rights discourse...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... ethical questions around white imperial violence, the disposability of brown lives, and the current political shift of and toward white women in positions of intense power. The article argues that these two technologies of domination—visual culture that entertains its citizens and political practice...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 132–141.
Published: 01 December 2020
... began to purposely catalogue such materials. Across projects, she has engaged questions of beauty, citizenship, Black culture, and family history from the nineteenth century to the present by closely examining the camera practices of legendary photographers and the cultural contexts surrounding iconic...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 154–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
... special attention to their process, their shared love for drag and camp, and to the complicated reception to their work. While Tejal returned to India soon after, the pair continued to remain in conversation over the decades, even as their own practices meandered into questions of gender performance...
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