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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 177–189.
Published: 01 September 2013
...). Installation at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Bill Jacobson, New York in practice Photography, the Archive, and the Question of Feminist Form: A Conversation with Zoe Leonard Huey Copeland Over the last two decades...
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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 (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 (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 (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...
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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...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
... enables this essay to then focus specifically on gay Chinese melodramatic cinema. The conventions of Chinese melodramatic mise-en-scène offer moments of excess or hyperbole that the gay romance melodramas rely on to confront the question of gay sexuality in Chinese society. Li-Kong Hsu and Chi Yin's...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Rosalind Galt This article contends that film studies has consistently denigrated “pretty” images: those that emphasize detailed composition, excess color, or decorative style. While the term deliberately invokes the triviality of “pretty pictures,” the article questions this taken-for-granted...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 77–105.
Published: 01 September 2009
... also been a sexual revolution? How did it mange to reform (or fail to reform) some of the state's most enduring institutions, marriage and the family? Has the revolution betrayed its promises to radically address the “woman question”? Has it perpetuated bourgeois values? Could the subjects and regimes...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 177–207.
Published: 01 May 2009
... away from the biological and genetic systems that have historically dominated its definition toward questions of technological agency. In this formulation, race exists as if it were on par with a hammer or a mechanical instrument: denatured from its historical roots, race can then be freely engaged...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 69–99.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of Africa in two celebrated twenty-first century films, The Constant Gardener and Blood Diamond , and questions whether problematic archetypes still hold in the new millennium. By reading both films as noir thrillers with humanitarian agendas, the article highlights their subversive potential to “enlighten...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 39–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... on psychoanalytic theory, this article also constitutes a preliminary response to Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever and its question about the future of the archive. If the archive (both of cinema and of psychoanalysis) still privileges the lineage that runs from Oedipus to Freud, here I turn to the figure...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 65–89.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Karen Orr Vered; John McConchie Inspired by a review of the political theories of Anthony Giddens, particularly his question of whether or not there can be a Third Way politics of family, this essay examines the TV show Supernanny as an example of what we call “Third Way TV.” Tracing the program's...