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Reading the Figural

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D.N. Rodowick
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 11–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-3_24-11
Published: 01 September 1990
...D.N. Rodowick Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Reading the Figural D .N.Rodowick A day will come when, by means of similitude relayed indefinitely along the length of a series, the image...
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Creolizing Carmen: Reading Performance in María Antonia , Cuba's Overlooked Carmen Adaptation

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Nadia Sophia Sanko
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 157–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1533475
Published: 01 May 2012
... (dir. Sergio Giral, Cuba, Creolizing Carmen: Reading Performance in María Antonia, Cuba’s Overlooked Carmen Adaptation Nadia Sophia Sanko The story of Carmen, the (in)famous Gypsy from Spain, has been adapted for the screen approximately eighty times.1 Despite the global...
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Sitting Closer to the Screen: Early Televisual Address, the Unsettling of the Domestic Sphere, and Close Reading Historical TV

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Josie Torres Barth
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 31–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7772375
Published: 01 December 2019
...Josie Torres Barth This article makes a case for formal analysis of historical TV through close readings that demonstrate the ways in which postwar television unsettled the domestic sphere. While scholars of historical television have dismissed formal criticism for its ignorance of contexts...
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Inhabiting the Phallus: Reading Safe Is Desire

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Mary T. Conway
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 132–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-2_38-132
Published: 01 May 1996
...Mary T. Conway Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996 Inhabiting the Phallus: Reading Safe Is Desire Mary T. Conway Allie: I'm a city girl. Dionne: You don't camp? Allie: Unhuh...
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Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure: On Janice Radway's Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1984)

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Ien Ang
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 179–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-1_16-179
Published: 01 January 1988
...Ien Ang Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 ." Z Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure: On Janice Radway's Reading the Romance: Women~ Patriarchy and Popular Literature (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press...
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The Playhouse of the Signifier: Reading Pee-wee Herman

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Ian Balfour
Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 155–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-2_17-155
Published: 01 May 1988
...Ian Balfour Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 The Playhouse of the Signifier: Reading Pee-wee Herman Ian Balfour I. The Mail-Lady I want to begin with a phrase from Pee-wee’s Playhouse, the epithet for the character named Reba, who is called...
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Thinking Travesti Tears: Reading Loxoro

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Giancarlo Cornejo
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 33–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349329
Published: 01 December 2021
...Giancarlo Cornejo Abstract This article offers a reading of the Peruvian film Loxoro (dir. Claudia Llosa, Peru/Spain/Argentina/US, 2011), which stars the transgender activist Belissa Andía. “Loxoro” is the name of a language used by travesti communities to survive in Lima, Peru. The main plot...
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Reading Border through Desire: Queer Indigenous Theory, Nordic Settler Colonialism, and Trans Aesthetics

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Kata Kyrölä
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 77–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10772589
Published: 01 December 2023
..., and the trauma of settler colonialism. Drawing on Eve Tuck's call for desire‐based research, the article asks what is at stake in queer, trans, and decolonial readings of films that are not necessarily identifiable as such at the surface level. Border centers on a love story between two gender‐fluid trolls who...
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Figure 4. Maxine introduces Shirin to some new reading material in Appropriate Behavior

Maxine introduces Shirin to some new reading material in Appropriate Behav...

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in Appropriate Feminisms: Ambivalence and Citational Practice in Appropriate Behavior > Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2022
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Vertigo and the Vertiginous History of Film Theory

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Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 101–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-011
Published: 01 December 2011
... impossible to read it without referencing the cinematic lexicon of scopophilia, fetishism, voyeurism, the sadistic male gaze, objectification of the female body, mental images, relational images, thought cinema, the imaginary Real, the symbolic Real, and the “Real Real.” This essay traces how critical...
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Figure 2. Three photographs of ‘Ismat, mid-/late nineteenth- century, Golestan Collection, Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies. Inscription in the left photograph reads, “Deceased ‘Ismat al-Dawlah, elder daughter of Nasir al-Din Shah, wife of deceased Dust Muhammad Khan Mu‘ayyir al-Mamalik, grandmother of myself, [Nayyir?] Mu‘ayyiri.” Inscription in the center printed in English: “Douste Mohammed Khan, Tehran.” Inscription in the right reads, “Khanum ‘Ismat al-Dawlah daughter of Nasir al-Din Shah, wife of Dust Muhammad Khan Mu‘ayyir al-Mamlik”

Three photographs of ‘Ismat, mid-/late nineteenth- century, Golestan Collec...

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in Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet > Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2022
Figure 2. Three photographs of ‘Ismat, mid-/late nineteenth- century, Golestan Collection, Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies. Inscription in the left photograph reads, “Deceased ‘Ismat al-Dawlah, elder daughter of Nasir al-Din Shah, wife of deceased Dust Muhammad Khan Mu‘ayyir More
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Figure 5. Instagram photo of Varda pretending to sleep with her honorary Oscar speech under her pillow. The caption partially reads, “Under my pillow to remind my speech. See you tomorrow!” (Agnès Varda, 2017)

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in From Cannes to Cardboard: The Circulation and Promotion of Visages Villages and the Auteur on Instagram > Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 5. Instagram photo of Varda pretending to sleep with her honorary Oscar speech under her pillow. The caption partially reads, “Under my pillow to remind my speech. See you tomorrow!” (Agnès Varda, 2017) More
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Just Be There: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Surface in Mike Mills's 20th Century Women

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Victoria (Tia) Glista
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 105–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11207828
Published: 01 September 2024
...Victoria (Tia) Glista Abstract This article offers a reading of Mike Mills's 2016 film 20th Century Women (US), arguing that the film's aesthetic and ethical project is cognate with practices of surface reading, while also offering necessary points of friction and departure. Surface reading makes...
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Figure 7. The folder “swallowed up by darkness.” Note the simplified file path at the top of the File Explorer window that reads “Foldscape &gt; deep pit &gt; deeper &gt; deeper &gt; deeper &gt; deeper” and how this file path is reflected in the iconography of the nesting doll imagery of the folder.

The folder “swallowed up by darkness.” Note the simplified file path at the...

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in How the Computer Taught Us to See > Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 7. The folder “swallowed up by darkness.” Note the simplified file path at the top of the File Explorer window that reads “Foldscape &gt; deep pit &gt; deeper &gt; deeper &gt; deeper &gt; deeper” and how this file path is reflected in the iconography of the nesting doll imagery More
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Occult Melodramas: Spectral Affect and West African Video-Film

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Lindsey Green-Simms
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 25–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1597204
Published: 01 September 2012
... that these films are both recognizable to and somewhat outside world cinema categories, I suggest ways of reading the spectral affects of the films that account for the complex, conflicting forms of spirituality, eroticism, and transgression that make them so popular with their audiences. This type of a reading...
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The Times of The Hours : Queer Melodrama and the Dilemma of Marriage

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Julianne Pidduck
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 37–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2016951
Published: 01 May 2013
... that contribute to a nuanced meditation on women's experience of conjugal and family life. While much of the literature on melodrama draws on psychoanalysis and theories of spatiality, this article develops three distinct yet interrelated temporal and affective readings: Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogism and Virginia...
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The Face Is a Politics: A Close-Up View of Julie Dash's Illusions

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Nick Davis
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 149–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2704661
Published: 01 September 2014
...Nick Davis This article yields three new and interlocking readings of Julie Dash's Illusions (US, 1982), a classic of black feminist cinema frequently analyzed from the intersectional standpoint of gendered and racial representation. First, I explore Dash's potent use of close-ups at key points...
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De–Black Boxing Media: The Technological Feminine in Avital Ronell’s The Telephone Book

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Anne M. Royston
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 29–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4336828
Published: 01 May 2018
...Anne M. Royston Reading Avital Ronell’s unconventionally designed The Telephone Book implies reading material form as well as semantic content. Such a reading emphasizes the book’s typographical illegibilities, which become the figure for the space between person and thing. These illegibilities...
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Revisiting Queer and Trans Representation in Junior

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Jon Heggestad
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 129–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11024096
Published: 01 May 2024
... family-making. This reading draws on the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, applying her analytic framework of binaristic formations to the film. In so doing, a series of dyads emerge—feminist/misogynist, feminist/queer, trans/cis, queer/heteronormative, masculine/feminine, passive/active, hard/soft...
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Immaterial Child Labor: Media Advocacy, Autoethnography, and the Case of Born into Brothels

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Pooja Rangan
Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-012
Published: 01 December 2011
... is a reading of Born into Brothels , an award-winning film documenting the codirector and photojournalist Zana Briski's humanitarian project to emancipate the children of prostitutes in India by training them in photography and creating avenues for them to sell their own photographs of brothel life. A close...
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