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.... Navigating these divisions not only offers a more reparative reading of the film, it also produces a fruitful study for addressing the ways in which queerness on-screen so frequently operates through such binary formations. Lastly, new insights regarding the way male pregnancy, as a theme, has historically...

... in conversation with theorists who challenge what it means to see and be visible. The first site of opacity, engaging Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's examination of paranoid and reparative reading, asks about the limits of paranoid thinking as a response to the contemporary surveillance situation. The second site...

... the period commonly referred to as the German Autumn (1977). Through a close reading of the film's formal structure, this essay argues that Journeys from Berlin/1971 represents Rainer's attempt to imagine a feminist counterpublic in the form of a queer “archive of feelings.” This essay traces the film's...

... for desire-based research 27 —an approach that bears resemblance to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's concept of reparative reading. 28 In her essay “Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities,” Tuck emphatically argues for desire-based research instead of the broad tendency toward what she calls damage-based...

..., Freud's essay on “the paranoid Dr. Schreber” concludes by wryly noting that “the delusions of paranoiacs have an unpalatable external similarity and internal kinship to the systems of our philosophers” (quoted in Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading,” 125). 21. The question of whether...

.... [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Camera Obscura 2025 conspiracy theories paranoia reparative reading feminist film studies It's easy to ignore exploitation; sometimes you're too busy exposing its source. Ought we to bother conspiracy theorists with banal surface-level harm when...

...: Community and Perversity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 1. 2. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is about You,” in Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction, ed. Eve...

... Against such a paranoid reading, Sedgwick draws on Melanie Klein in call- ing for a reparative reading that sees camp as making a hostile culture habitable and isolates such central features as “startling, juicy displays of excess erudition; . . . passionate, often hilarious...

.... In that respect, the analysis of the film from a transnational and postcolonial perspective allows us a “reparative reading” of the seventies, which, in its peripheries, produced work that clearly resonates with audiovisual explorations of intersections between gender, race, culture, and sexuality today. 45...

...: Monthly Review Press, 1975), 180. 58. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), 215. 59. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think...

... include de Langis, New Reading ; Melanie Hyde, Emma Palmer, and Sarah Williams, Transformative Reparations for Sexual and Gender- Based Violence at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Reflections, Recommendations and Next Steps, East West Center, 2014, www.eastwestcenter.org/sites...

... • See, for instance, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is about You,” in Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction, ed. Sedgwick (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, – reprinted in Eve...

..., and the mystical. Later on they came to signify tourism and adventure, and still later, they became a symbol for romance and the honeymoon — the honey- moon being the place and time that you were supposed to be dis- covering sex. When you read some of the text on these postcards, when people write about...

... and death — as they attempt to make past traumas known and felt. The prevalence of this type of traumatic haunting in US horror of the late 1970s through the early 1980s demonstrates a cultural logic that espouses the necessity of public recognition of and reparations for the historical wrongs...

... recognition,” satisfying “sexual needs that have been ignored.” 73 Kim reads Oasis as exemplifying curative violence because it “does not problematize” Jong-du's initial assault; she does not countenance his reparative care for Gong-ju, his disability, and her agency (123). More significantly, Oasis...

...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...

... surrounding World War I. Through their interest in psychoanalysis and melodrama, the writers for Close Up succeeded in developing a unique model of therapeutic spectatorship that anticipates current discussions of film as a reparative object developed with trauma theory.1 In this case study of G. W. Pabst s...

... as Foucault notes that commentary limits the “hazards of discourse through the action of identity taking the form of repetition and sameness” (15, emphasis in original). In an identitarian-­driven discourse such as queer film studies, the practice of reading certain codes predetermines sexual...

... and imposes a new beginning, and, while doing so, it makes this beginning incompatible with a past that, we are told, from now on should be forgotten and renounced. The new beginning makes past experi- ence and claims for reparation and compensation politically obso- lete and helps institute...

... familiarity with the is- land, his weapons and his just-as-considerable knowledge (he has read 93 every book on hunting ever written, handled all lunds of weapons since childhood, and hunted game of every sort all over the world). Thus, the hunt corresponds to the classical structure of the duel: two...