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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
... power of representation alone cannot counter that worldview. Thus, instead of disavowing these representations, we should explore how they function as types of black femininity. One of those types is here described as “ratchet.” Ratchetness, a disposition characterized by foolery that is more tacky than...
View articletitled, They Gon’ Think You Loud Regardless: <span class="search-highlight">Ratchetness</span>, Reality Television, and Black Womanhood
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 188–190.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Extremity: Cinema, Theory, Mediation.
No. 90: pp. 161 – 87
Matt Tierney
The Terror That Makes One Whatever One Is: Sterling Hayden’s
Emotional Testimonies. No. 89: pp. 157 – 87
Kristen J. Warner
They Gon’ Think You Loud Regardless: Ratchetness, Reality
Television, and Black...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2015
... articles discuss affect as refracted by race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender: in my piece, I interrogate care for self and others in Jersey Shore (MTV, 2009 ) as a site of ethics; Kristen J. Warner addresses the intersectional gender and race politics of reality-ratchet; and Alessa Dominguez...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... As Kristen J. Warner elaborates in her article in this issue, this sometimes takes the form of the women surveilling each other s style or performance for being ratchet or ghetto. 25 For example, Kandi Burruss described Phaedra Parks s blue eye shadow and Swarovski crystals as boughetto, a term she...
View articletitled, “I'm Very Rich, Bitch!”: The Melodramatic Money Shot and the Excess of Racialized Gendered Affect in the Real Housewives Docusoaps
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 86–109.
Published: 01 December 1986
... identifies with
the crew’s relief, is disarmed by their highjinks during the celebratory
meal; then is plunged into even deeper disorganizing terror by Kane’s
awful fate. This “ratchet” effect-sharply lowering tension with a leaven
of humor, then sharply escalating it so that it impacts more...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of women, the poor,
racial minorities, queer sexualities, and other marginalized iden-
tities — is ratcheted up in frequency and intensity. In the specific
instance of the US, scapegoating has been a weapon frequently
wielded by political conservatives against nonheteronormative
identities...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 11–39.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., 1994), 12. 16. Kristen J. Warner s article in this issue equally attests to the inherent racialization of identity formation on reality TV. Kristen J. Warner, They Gon Think You Loud Regardless: Ratchetness, Reality Television, and Black Womanhood, Camera Obscura, no. 88 (2015): 129 53. 17. See...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2021
... competition series RuPaul's Drag Race (airing since 2017 on VH1), “Endora Has Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve & Talent,” “Don't Be Ratchet,” and “No T. No Shade.” On Drag Race , meanwhile, host RuPaul adopts Samantha's signature catchphrase, “Oh my stars!,” as his own, explaining: “She is a supernatural...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 107–139.
Published: 01 December 2023
...: Routledge, 2018). 49. See Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (New York: Routledge, 2005); and Kristen J. Warner, “They Gon’ Think You Loud Regardless: Ratchetness, Reality Television, and Black Womanhood,” Camera Obscura , no. 88 (2015): 129...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
... set her apart from other applicants;
we have no sense of her abilities or passions (other than an inter-
est in writing very bad, “ratchet” rap lyrics). While the web series
ends with J escaping Gutbusters and getting a new job, nothing
seems particularly special about J professionally...
