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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 (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of the representational logic that inheres Pose 's historiographic intervention, the article uses the show's range of historical representations as a starting point for thinking through what it means to face death and choose life amid conditions of extraordinary violence. [email protected] Copyright ©...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 191–217.
Published: 01 May 2024
...-organized, concise, and clear depiction of the experience of sexual assault and its aftermath, I May Destroy You reads as ambiguous, at times puzzling, even disorganized—much like its protagonist, Arabella. Unlike most contemporary televisual representations of sexual assault and violence, I May Destroy...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Asia Extreme (whose rosters incorporate many of Park's films, including the Vengeance Trilogy), was that of extreme violence. 64 Not only were East Asian filmmakers branded together under the theme of violence, but as Laikwan Pang indicates, they also “mimicked each other's representation...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Soyoung Yoon Abstract This essay attends to the force of aggression in Carolee Schneemann's work, emphasizing the conflicts in the artist's representation of enjoyment, knowledge, and truth in her own body, with a focus on Up To and Including Her Limits (1973–76) and the underexplored text “Anti...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 1–39.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Ara Osterweil In an era of motion picture history that forbade the representation of explicit adult sexuality and interracial romance, the appeal of Shirley Temple's innocent yet erotic persona was instrumentalized by the film industry as an important box office draw and powerful ideological weapon...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 37–65.
Published: 01 May 2009
... comparisons with other forms of representational
violence both in the history of art and in forms of museum display.
As with Caught Like a Nigger in Cyberspace, the digital interface had a
powerful effect, but the image of the targeted subject was far from
secondary; it was the very ground...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 71–103.
Published: 01 May 2006
... and written representations of abuse
and torture. Images such as “Scourged Back” (figure 3) provided
Northerners with a firsthand look at the violent effects of slavery.
The widely reproduced photograph of Gordon, an escaped slave,
spoke volumes. The image pictured a history of violence written...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 243–274.
Published: 01 May 1997
... in a representational discourse detonated
against the autonomous, self-defining woman. Ludmilla Jordanova 25 1
describes this medical and art historical context in terms of a “special
kind of eroticism . . . violence . . . epistemological, actual and repre-
sentational . . . literal . . . dissection...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
...” — and, second,
it calls to attention the filmmaker’s ability to determine people
and events through representation because all representation is
necessarily incomplete.
Rather than try to recreate the women’s stories of trauma
and violence for the screen, Tran demonstrates...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 139–161.
Published: 01 September 1990
... on the cinema of the
seventies. Many contemporary filmmakers -and not only experimental
filmmakers but also a good number of psychoanalytic, textual or semio-
logical theorists-have found in this film the best framework for re-
thinking and expanding theories of film language and representation.
La...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 96–119.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Anna Williams Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 The America’s Most Wanted logo.
Domestic Violence and the Aetiology of Crime
in America’s Most Wanted
Anna Williams
1. Introduction
Every week AmericaS Most Wanted, a novel hybrid of telethon...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2005
...
articulate problems with the film’s historical complexity, its charac-
ter development, or its representation of the violence of partition
appear to use the argument that the film failed to “move” them as
the primary basis for their responses. What I find most interest-
ing about these divergent responses...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 119–143.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the “representational paradox.” 10 In her analysis of The Accused (dir. Jonathan Kaplan, US, 1988), Projansky argues that representations of rape increase the “amount of violence against women that exists in popular culture representations,” and that such graphic representations of rape may “challenge rape myths...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 4–23.
Published: 01 January 1989
... the most style and taste is the
most seductive, the film rehearses certain preoccupations of postmod-
ernist theories of representational strategy. By presenting the artist as
a transgressive figure with a strong resemblance to the media my-
thologized Neo-Expressionists...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 4–35.
Published: 01 September 1991
... and failures of
these narratives, I will argue, intervene at a variety of contested sites
involving feminist theory: the politics of representation as they relate
to graphic depictions of violence against women; the tension between
poststructuralist conceptions of identity and political praxis...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 99–117.
Published: 01 December 2003
... at the different ways desire structures narratives and images in various cultural traditions, and the way our very notion of desire may be shaped by these representations.
Marina Abramovic´ ’s Performance:
Stresses on the Body and Psyche
in Installation Art
Maureen Turim
Among the most prolific...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 125–155.
Published: 01 September 2015
... imagery like
The Real McCoys (ABC, 1957 – 62; CBS, 1962 – 63) and Griffith’s star
text — distanced Mayberry from the news and made the South safe
for televisual representations and for an imagined white audience
understood to be easily alienated by controversial fare. Crucial...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 32–48.
Published: 01 September 1995
... success story
Often in media and film, violence in black women’s lives is treated as
an inherent liability of their color and sex. For “subtle’’ and graphic
visceral examples consider respectively the “near” rape scene in Spike
Lee’s She’s Got to Have It and the brutal gang rape of the black...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 157–185.
Published: 01 December 2004
... as a
history of follies and repressions, egregious exploitation, and
murderous violence is hardly something we can excuse, however
remote these deeds may be. This is a history that almost begs to be
forgotten—as much as it cries out to be remembered.
The difficulty of balancing the two demands...
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