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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
... BeautifulAgony.com , a site exclusively focusing on the face of orgasm. Using Tom Gunning's research on the gnostic impulse of cinema, or the drive to reveal “new visual knowledge” through technology, I interrogate hard-core representation in the context of visual media and knowledge production. Beautiful Agony's...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 137–147.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Tess Takahashi This article examines the legacy of issues of representation in the International Experimental Media Congress held in Toronto in April of 2010, twenty years after the contentious 1989 International Experimental Film Congress. On the surface, the two events embraced the same stated...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 129–145.
Published: 01 December 2018
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 37–61.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Courtney R. Baker Recent African American film scholarship has called for an attention to the structures of black representation on screen. This work echoes the calls made in the 1990s by black feminist film and cultural scholars to resist the allure of reading for racial realism and to develop...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 129–155.
Published: 01 May 2024
... contributed to increased visibility and advocacy for queer parents. This representation, alongside advances in medicine and reproductive technology, has worked to alter earlier (and more essentialist) views pertaining to pregnancy, gender, and sexuality; however, opposition to this expanded view has also...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 31–68.
Published: 01 January 1996
...Scott D. Paulin
Sex and the Singled Girl: Queer
Representation and Containment
in Single White Female
Scott D. Paulin
The title of Barbet Schroeder's 1992 film Single White Female im-
mediately suggests three terms that would presumably be useful...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 141–171.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., citizens, kin. As a cultural object, Oracle remains particularly sticky with representations of becoming user in the context of 1990s US social and technological reform. Consistent across Oracle's many origin stories is an ambivalent narrative of becoming user. Becoming user in the comics is a process...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 243–274.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Tabitha Goode Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 Camosaur 2 (Louis Morneau, 1995)
Roswell-The Footage: Alien Autopsy (1995).
Abstract Representational Space:
Uncanny Aliens and Others
(Pandora, or Prometheus’s Return)
Tabitha Goode...
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 112–147.
Published: 01 September 1985
...Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Reconstructing Documentary:
Connie Hatch’s Representational Resistance
AbzguiZ Solomon- Godeuzl
Above my desk, affixed to my bulletin board is a poster from an exhibition
entitled Photo Politic which took place five years ago at P.S. 1 (The
Institute for Art...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 81–109.
Published: 01 December 2008
... in relation to feminist politics, on one hand, and popular culture, on the other? When does self-representation overstep the boundary between sexual valorization and prurient commodification? How, in turn, should a female viewer respond to erotic visual material produced by a woman? In order to understand...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 1–33.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... Taking those close-ups alongside Girl 6 's interpolation of 1970s blaxploitation film and television, this article argues that the film is as concerned with the elision of public and private spaces for racially marked figures as it is with the reduction of positive black representation to commodified...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Kristen J. Warner This article explores the interstitial spaces between positive and negative representations of black womanhood on reality television. It argues that regardless of the presence of supposedly positive images in media, if audiences choose to see black women as “loud,” the symbolic...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Ellen McLarney This article charts Beyoncé’s multimedia intervention into the politics of the Trump presidency as she draws on the work of black Muslim and Latinx artists to challenge white monopolies on representation in the Breitbart era. It specifically looks at the political interventions...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 107–139.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Yael Levy Abstract During the 2010s, American television witnessed a growing attention to and presence of women, both in TV representation and in TV creation and production. As part of that development, the self‐representation of women who are both the creators and the stars of their shows...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to historically mean within the logics of representationalism? 25 Might Angel's touch indicate a way of knowing that exceeds what critical consideration of the scene as an act of representational novelty can register? Rescripting the “royal” costumes as part of their ballroom performance is the arguable...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Ora Gelley The French director Catherine Breillat has in recent years become a kind of figurehead for what has been perceived by many as a new trend in contemporary European cinema toward extreme representations of violence and graphic sexuality. As a consequence of the controversy provoked...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
... ensemble, Modern Family relationally racializes Asian American, Latinx, and Black recurring and side characters through performances of cultural capital. Their differences deviate from the sexual modernity represented by the program’s core white families. Despite the token representations of racial...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 69–103.
Published: 01 September 2018
... representation of women’s suffrage to be inherently feminist. Some go so far as to use Mary Poppins as a vehicle through which to reflect on feminist and women’s history. This essay challenges the assumption that the film seeks to offer a positive commemoration of suffrage history, suggesting instead that Mrs...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 103–127.
Published: 01 December 2018
... as an auteur and coalesce into a new paradigm for representing female figures who might otherwise lose representability in both mainstream cinema (dominated by market forces) and alternative cinema. For one, she intervenes in a monolithic representational landscape of first-world, white, middle-class...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 139–159.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Benjamin Balthaser In both art and politics, the deindustrialized city would seem to have taken on the qualities of the “unrepresentable,” a traumatic experience that can only be recorded by its attendant silence, or of depoliticized representation in genres such as “ruin porn.” Despite or perhaps...
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