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Total Recall : Production, Revolution, Simulation-Alienation Effect
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 4–40.
Published: 01 September 1993
...Robert Miklitsch Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
Total Recall: Production, Revolution,
Simulation-Alienation Effect
Robert Miklitsch
The men of Earth came to Mars. They came
because...
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Bollywood in Drag: Moulin Rouge! and the Aesthetics of Global Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 29–67.
Published: 01 December 2011
...,” viewers and critics are unaware of the extent to which the film draws on Bollywood's affective economy, generic idioms, and performance traditions. Few would recognize that the heroine Satine's transformation from conniving showgirl to tragic heroine recalls the tawaif (courtesan) figure in popular Hindi...
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The staging by Kouzuki (Cho Jin-woong) of Hideko's sex act with a wooden ma...
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in Symmetry, Violence, and The Handmaiden 's Queer Colonial Intimacies
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 3. The staging by Kouzuki (Cho Jin-woong) of Hideko's sex act with a wooden mannequin in The Handmaiden ( Ah-ga-ssi , dir. Park Chan-wook, South Korea, 2016) recalls a shot in a controversial Japanese New Wave classic.
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Memory Resurrected in HD: Collective Digital Video Filmmaking as Production of Counterhistory in the Folk Memory Project
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 175–185.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of her mother and grandmother. The genera-
tional lineage of womanhood is visualized when Zhang performs
her own birth in front of the projected video interview of her
mother, who recalls the moment of giving birth. The red “blood,”
in the form of red silk, unwraps Zhang’s performing body...
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“The Hard Shining Brightness of You”: Witnessing the Assumption of a Body in George Cukor's A Woman's Face
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 55–87.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Figure 1. Joan Crawford’s beauty regimen recalls her role
as a facially scarred woman in A Woman’s Face (dir. George
Cukor, US, 1941). Eve Arnold photo of Joan Crawford, 1959.
© Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos
“The Hard Shining Brightness
of You”: Witnessing the
Assumption of a Body...
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She Listened: Vardian Self-Portraiture and Auto-Refrains of Sea, Wind, and Sand
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 61–85.
Published: 01 May 2021
... into the exhibition,” Chandès adjoins. “Then,” Varda continues, “the barrier lifted. You entered the island and my world.” Varda strides silently toward an unseen handheld camera whose backward movement recalls Varda's own steps and handheld camera in The Gleaners and I ( Les glaneurs et la glaneuse , France...
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Melodrama's Other: Entrapment and Escape in the Films of Tom Tykwer
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 108–143.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of consensus” — has often sidestepped these very questions
in the interest of entertainment and capital.16 Popular comedies
such as Maybe, Maybe Not (Der bewegte Mann, dir. Sönke Wortmann,
Germany, 1994) and Rossini (dir. Helmut Dietl, Germany, 1997)
recall comic film classics in that they are self...
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Me and a Rifle (and an IDF Soldier on My Back)
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 161–163.
Published: 01 September 2012
... changing direction now. I ask the driver if he needs petrol.
He assures me he has a full tank and some biscuits — would I like
one? I cannot recall what occurred during the time lapse before
the crumbs hit my lips.
When I rubbed the morsels out of my mouth, there was no one
but me, and a rifle...
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Big Affect: The Ephemeral Archive of Second-Wave Feminist Video Collectives in Canada
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
... control of television to critics and
the public.25 Nonetheless, this legislation became a model for the
US, which followed suit with its own community cable access man-
dates in 1977.26
Whatever the motives, the CRTC ruling opened up the
doors to community television. Recalls Simpson, “We...
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“Siam Not So Small!” Maps, History, and Gender in The King and I
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 73–117.
Published: 01 September 2005
... between a subjective, regionalist East and an objec-
tive, universalizing West, but it also softens this divide by implying
a sympathy between the cultures. In this way, the scene recalls ori-
entalist dichotomies and cold war policies of containment, but it
also evokes a contemporary interest...
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The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 131–175.
Published: 01 December 2003
... and not seeing. In a
sequence that is overloaded with mirrors, Mrs. Leacock sneaks up
on the Whitakers in their home, thereby recalling the ways that
Sirk’s mirrors act insistently to deny privacy, to guarantee surveil-
lance. As we watch Cathy and Frank’s morning good-bye kiss—in
a pose reminiscent...
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Reproducing the Past: Popular History and Family Melodrama on China Beach
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 158–184.
Published: 01 May 1995
... America's past experience of Vietnam.
In 1984, William Broyles, creator of the television series China Beach,
recalls such representations of gender and war in his statement in
Esquire magazine that "war is for men, at some terrible level the closest
thing to what childbirth is for women: the initiation...
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“How much did you pay for this place?” Fear, Entitlement, and Urban Space in Bernard Rose's Candyman
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 69–91.
Published: 01 January 1996
... life, a
promise that entails the sacrifice of her own. Ultimately, Helen discov-
ers that she is a reincarnation of the landowner's daughter from the
professor's narrative. Now carrying a hook herself, she rescues the
76 baby from a burning heap of garbage which recalls the pyre...
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Symmetry, Violence, and The Handmaiden 's Queer Colonial Intimacies
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Figure 3. The staging by Kouzuki (Cho Jin-woong) of Hideko's sex act with a wooden mannequin in The Handmaiden ( Ah-ga-ssi , dir. Park Chan-wook, South Korea, 2016) recalls a shot in a controversial Japanese New Wave classic. ...
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Parenting through Horror: Reassurance in Jennifer Kent's The Babadook
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2017
... one,
A friend of you and me.
In this part of the book, the child is invited to play with the crea-
ture through pop-up effects that make it appear unexpectedly
and wave, recalling the wonder of movable books.21 As the story
continues, however, the images and texts become increasingly...
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Agnès Varda: Photography and Early Creative Process
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 215–229.
Published: 01 May 2021
... working recall Eugène Atget's interiors. The artificial light and blurred window make it difficult to determine whether this is during regular hours or whether the figure has been drinking throughout the night. In the film, Varda goes on to explore alcoholism, depicting people sleeping in the street...
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Mulvey's Manifesto
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 1–23.
Published: 01 December 2007
... and two women, among them four working at the BFI,
two teaching in the English faculty at Cambridge, and one at the
Polytechnic of Central London. As Mulvey herself later recalled,
the members of the group around Screen did not regard themselves
as academic purveyors of film studies...
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History in Miniature: Colleen Moore's Dollhouse and Historical Recollection
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 113–157.
Published: 01 December 2001
...
castle displays the story of Moore’s personal wealth as a movie star.
It also points to the economics of Hollywood in general. The cas-
tle recalls the fascination with the “private” lives stars led in their
own extravagant homes and the lavishness of production and
exhibition practices of the time...
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Forme fruste : Introduction to Ray Barrie's Fellowdrama
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 82–88.
Published: 01 May 1988
... of this kind of ‘seeing
“. . . or else he would recall the myth of Adam, who when God
brought the creatures of Paradise before him to be distinguished and
named, may have experienced to the fullest degree that intellectual
enjoyment which Charcot praised so highly.”
Two eyes: the eye...
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The Last Days of Women's Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 145–151.
Published: 01 December 2006
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itself. How does invoking this “archival” document in the current
moment frame the question of the future of feminism, culture,
and media? For me, it is important to recall that Johnston’s theo-
rizing accompanied feminist practice — women’s filmmaking...
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