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Film Theory and the Gendered Spectator: The Female or the Feminist Reader?
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 80–94.
Published: 01 September 1988
...Diane Waldman Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Film Theory and the Gendered Spectator: The
Female or the Feminist Reader?
Diane Waldman
Like literary theory and criticism, film theory has moved from a notion
of meaning immanent in the text to a concern...
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The Cinema, Reader of Gilles Deleuze
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 120–126.
Published: 01 September 1988
..., Reader of Gilles Deleuze
Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier
Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1986; Minuit, 1983) and Cinema 2: I.:Image-temps (Minuit,
1985; forthcoming in translation)
In the pages that follow one should not look...
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Race as Technology
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 177–207.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Beth Coleman Is it possible to think of race as a disinterested object of our delight, as opposed to one that is overinscribed? Can race survive as something other than the remnant of a traumatic history? In this essay, I ask the reader to consider race as technology. This proposition moves race...
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In Practice: Queerness and Games
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
Published: 01 September 2017
... with theoretical arguments and practices across independent and industry game design, queer video game theory and criticism, and queer game pedagogy. By introducing readers of Camera Obscura to QGCon and the emergent field of queer game studies, this introduction seeks to expand the relationship between feminist...
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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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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 179–190.
Published: 01 January 1988
..., 1984)
len Ang
Janice Radway's Reading the Romance does not exactly read like a ro•
mance. In contrast to the typical reading experience of the romance novel,
it is difficult to go through Reading the Romance at one stretch. The text
contains too many fragments which compel its reader to stop...
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Editorial
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 3–5.
Published: 01 May 1981
.... Although the
article was written with a British audience in mind, we feel that the
points raised, particularly those that relate cinema to history, will be 5
of interest to our readers. .
Two new areas are covered within the Women Worhng section in
this issue-a Conference Report...
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“Actors Simply Explode”: To Act in the Cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 93–117.
Published: 01 September 2016
... that are not exhausted by the interpretive schemas to which
they are subject. Such texts ensure that they remain partially illeg-
ible. In Straub and Huillet’s practice, the actors are first of all read-
ers, and, more importantly, they are readers who do not know how
to read the texts in their hands. This state...
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Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 215–234.
Published: 01 September 1985
... generated within that tradition. On the other hand,
Modleski sees her work as “an early contribution to a psychology of the
interaction between female readers and texts” (p. 31). Here, she situates
her project in two different traditions of study.
First, Modleski takes up...
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Seeing in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to come to a fuller picture of
a scene. Scott McCloud’s influentialUnderstanding Comics argues
that reading comics is akin to putting together pieces of a puzzle.
By pulling together the panels or “fragments” of the narrative,
the reader becomes an active agent in the creation of meaning.10...
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Popular Narrative and Commercial Television
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 132–147.
Published: 01 May 1990
...
narrative.* My point here is that such activity on the part of the
audience can only be explained with reference both to a popular habitus
and to an insufficient text whose completion can only be enacted by
the reader.
This participation of the reader in writing the text...
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Green's Clues, or What's Queer about Clue ?
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 7–33.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in the Neapolitan cycle. But it is the story I wanted to find.” This imaginary imposition of a queerness that the work of art tantalizingly withholds from the reader—the same imposition I want to make when watching Clue —is actually a feature of Ferrante's novels themselves. As Richards writes, they “provoke...
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Whatever Happened to Janet Wood? Women Story Editors in 1950s Television
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 127–155.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... Heinemann, Miss Wood and Miss Galland have not announced their future plans. 1 The historical reader of Billboard likely a music, film, or television industry professional might have brought more insider knowl- edge to this piece. But from a contemporary reading position, a host of questions remains...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 180–182.
Published: 01 December 2002
..., Meiling. In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art.
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.
Cohan, Steven, ed. Hollywood Musicals: The Film Reader. New York:
Routledge, 2002.
Creeber, Glen, ed. The Television Genre Book. London: British Film
Institute, 2001...
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Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 141–171.
Published: 01 December 2023
...; the user becomes such without necessarily being aware of their interpellation into that subject position. For example, as I write this, I am a writer and a reader, but I am also a user of software and hardware, a user of a keyboard and mouse; I am online also a user and a subject of cookies...
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Medusa in the Land of Oz: The Female Spectator in Australia
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 53–67.
Published: 01 December 1989
... , Albert , and Tom O'Regan. An Australian Film Reader . Sydney: Currency Press, 1985 . Moran , Albert , and Tom O'Regan. The Australian Screen . Melbourne: Penguin, 1989 . Morris , Meaghan . “Identity Anecdotes,” Camera Obscura 12 ( 1984 ): 41 –65. Morris , Meaghan...
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Charlotte Brunsdon
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 108–111.
Published: 01 December 1989
... to inscribed
readers, spectators, etc. does not seem to be the crucial issue. The
problem is how this type of material -skilled, highly trained readings -
relates to anything else, particularly, how it relates to the culture in
which the work (if we can retain such old-fashioned...
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“If I Could Speak With Your Sound”: Fan Music, Textual Proximity, and Liminal Identification
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 148–175.
Published: 01 May 1990
... Radway wants to resist the urge to “cordon” viewers
for study, to isolate one particular set of reader-text relationships from
its larger cultural context. Instead, she prefers to ‘‘investigate the mul-
titude of concrete connections which ever-changing, fluid subjects forge
between ideological...
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New French Feminisms: Some Points Re-viewed
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 144–150.
Published: 01 May 1981
... and Feminism,” “Histories of France and of Feminism in
France,” and “Contexts of the New French Feminisms”-would
seem, even from the titles, to be an effort to prevent a wholesale
importation of ideas. Such terms as “history,” “discourse,” “context”
remind the reader that ideas do not fall from...
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House Body House
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 185–197.
Published: 01 September 2021
... fragments of sentences in passive prescriptive form. The verses evoke instructions that dilate the reader's focus, delivering prompts for action suggestive of a fierce clarity of purpose, of intention. But it is an affectation that summons a sense of the didactic that challenges sense, comprehension...
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“Desire Shifts the Differance”: Figural Poetics and Figural Politics in the Film Theory of Marie-Claire Ropars
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 66–85.
Published: 01 December 1984
... of Ropars’s book to any classic
academic work may be necessary to the deconstructive project of dis-
mantling classic critical precepts and procedures: the vertigo of displace-
ment that her style can enact works because the reader has entered the text
expecting something...
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