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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 59–79.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Julia Vassilieva This article explores the work of young Russian female director Valeria Gai Germanika. Germanika has gained a public profile over the last ten years through documentary shorts such as Sisters ( Syostry , 2005), Girls ( Devochki , 2005), and Boys ( Malchiki , 2007); feature film...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2013
... in a contradictory manner throughout her lifetime — from poet, to political activist, to filmmaker, to anthropologist, and so on. Third, it investigates Deren's ethnicity — her status as a Russian immigrant Jew, a characterization about which she had great ambivalence. Fourth, it examines her early writings...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 99–141.
Published: 01 May 2001
... in Russian, she calls the rapes a sexual geno- cide, and then shifting into German, she uses the term “ein Genozid der Liebe,” a “genocide of love.”27 By this she apparently means that the rapes had nothing to do with sexual desire but instead might easily have...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 24–53.
Published: 01 January 1989
... of the Russian and Soviet Film documents the development of Soviet film art, in part by exploring the ways in which artistic and political desires intersected and collided. Even David Bordwell, in his analysis of “historical-materialist narration,” suggests that the “om- nipotent” narration of Soviet...
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 50–83.
Published: 01 September 1985
.... There is no guiding rationale behind the writing of these fragments, and the collection cannot be said tr? be finished in any way whatsoever. Never rewritten, these first drafts were tentatively arranged and published some 20 years after Eisenstein’s death by the editors of the Selected Works in Russian...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 174–178.
Published: 01 September 1991
... Press, 1991. $12.95. Painted Love: Prostitution in the French Art of the Impressionist Era by Hollis Clayson. Yale University Press, 1991. From Limelight to Satellite: A Scottish Film Book edited by Eddie Dick. Indiana University Press, 1991. $23.95. Silent Witnesses: Russian Films, 1908...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 177–211.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of the burden and responsibility of mediation.65 Beth Holmgren suggests that the communication between Russian and Western women would be best served by “more extensive and more diverse literal translation, supplying informa- tion and texts about the wide variety of gender issues and the wide...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 248–252.
Published: 01 December 1989
..., except that it also means reading Germans and Russians and thinkers from the Third World when you can find them in print, as well as English and French writers. It is rather mundane to say and something we all do tacitly, but my main guides to research are the puzzling...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 184–185.
Published: 01 December 2014
...: The Worlds of Susanne Bier. No. 85: pp. 5 – 31 Belinda Smaill, see Therese Davis and Belinda Smaill Alexia Smit Care, Shame, and Intimacy: Reconsidering the Pleasures of Plastic Surgery Reality Television. No. 86: pp. 59 – 83 Julia Vassilieva “Becoming-Girl”­ in the New Russian Cinema: Youth...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 247–248.
Published: 01 May 1992
.... Routledge, 1993. $16.95. Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars edited by Jane Gaines. Duke University Press, 1992. All Talk: The Talkshow in Media Culture by Wayne Munson. Temple Uni- versity Press, 1993. $34.95. Sex and Russian Society edited by Igor Kon and James Riordan. Indiana...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 171–178.
Published: 01 December 2007
... of one reel of fve, is in the Swedish Film 176  •  Camera Obscura Archive in Stockholm, another, perhaps a copy, in Krasnogorsk, the Russian State Documentary Film and Photographic Archive, and this portion leads us to wonder about one more data entry: Liliya Yuryevna Brik, who, with Vitalij...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 195–203.
Published: 01 September 2016
... feminist punk and activist art group Pussy Riot and its supporters, incorporating photographs of protestors in colorful balaclavas sewn onto different pieces of secondhand tie-dyed­ T-shirts.­ 2 Among the images are photos of protestors being arrested by the Russian police and holding pro- test...
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 192–209.
Published: 01 December 1982
...- the cool guerrilla versus the seasoned ideologue and establishment member.) It’s possible to speak of such appearances as revealing Godard’s respect for “real- ity,” but it seems more precise to say that such figures are valued-as are linguistically-marked Americans, Italians, Russians, Germans...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 133–163.
Published: 01 May 2023
... as it slowly scrolls upward. As it continues to move across the screen, the text recounts the Russian army's swift suppression of the rebellion, noting that American accounts of the period “reported these conditions as unbearable and repressive.” 22 Just as the narrative reaches a climactic moment...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 246–248.
Published: 01 December 1989
..., except that it also means reading Germans and Russians and thinkers from the Third World when you can find them in print, as well as English and French writers. It is rather mundane to say and something we all do tacitly, but my main guides to research are the puzzling...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 1–43.
Published: 01 May 2000
... and branded by the chief policeman as a “troublemaker disturbing the peace.” In the next moment, a surprised Trelkovsky under- goes an interrogation about his citizenry: “Trelkovsky. Is this a Russian name?” “Polish, Polish...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 179–184.
Published: 01 December 2007
... concentration camps, representing the inhu- man state of “bare life”) is the person whose story we most want to hear yet who, by definition, is unavailable to speak.5 While the individual behind the CIA code name SDurn, the dead Russian submariners, and those killed in the Yemen desert have undergone...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 186–221.
Published: 01 May 1995
... and the Russians, and a lot of early cinema. By the time I was seventeen, I was watching anything the Film Makers' Co-op had, from Warhol's stuff to Wave- length [Michael Snow, 1967]. At that point in London, the Arts Laboratory had started (the Co-op was attached to it for a while): for a very low price you...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 83–111.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., or the salle moderne. This attraction to things French also attached to Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, which opened in Paris in 1909 and was stranded there for many years as a result of World War I and the Russian Revolution. From this famous company, Deco borrowed its sense of theatricality—witness...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 151–159.
Published: 01 May 2008
... in “My Favorite Dead Artist,” “The only one who immediately knew I was dressed as Frida was Louise Nevelson, who I gather must have known Frida Kahlo back in the day.” From the black drag queen in Los Angeles to the Mexican painter Kahlo and the Russian Ameri­ can sculptor Nevelson, from Warhol...