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Innovating Women's Television in Local and National Networks: Ruth Lyons and Arlene Francis
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 31–69.
Published: 01 December 2002
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Local and National Networks:
Ruth Lyons and Arlene Francis
Marsha Cassidy and Mimi White
Newsweek’s cover story on 19 July 1954 called Arlene Francis “the
quick queen of television.”1 In the same year, Look magazine reported
that Ruth Lyons was known as “Miss Ohio” because her “chitchat...
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The Jewish Closet in Europa, Europa
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Ruth D. Johnston Camera Obscura 2003 Ruth D. Johnston is professor of English at Pace University, New York City, where she teaches and writes about film, literature, and critical theory. Her current project, which includes this article, is a study of masquerade structures...
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“The Secret's in the Sauce”: Dismembering Normativity in Fried Green Tomatoes
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 124–159.
Published: 01 September 1999
..., in the film version at least, primar•
ily on Ruth Jamison (Mary-Louise Parker) and Idgie Threadgoode
(Mary Stuart Masterson). They are two independent women friends
who live together, raise a child, own and run a cafe, and battle against
the sexist, misogynist, racist and economic...
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Recovering the Lone Mother: Howards End As Aesthetic Anodyne
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 43–75.
Published: 01 May 2004
... an expanse of
picturesque undergrowth and lushly overgrown woodland.10 Ruth
Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave), the revered matriarch and owner of
Howards End, is paying homage to her garden. The meadow is
teeming with richly overgrown flowers, trees, and bushes, each of
which the camera lovingly caresses...
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The Front Lawn of Heaven: Landscape in Hollywood Melodrama circa 1945
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 119–159.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by throwing herself down
the stairs, to eliminate her baby who has become another imag-
ined competitor. Her cousin (and adopted sister) Ruth, played
by Jeanne Crain, is the “good woman” who selflessly endures all
the dark events of the film’s narrative to emerge validated at the
end. “Evil...
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Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 90–129.
Published: 01 January 1990
..., and freedom to
explore novel experiences outside the domestic sphere. A few typical
titles immediately reveal this central anomaly: The Adventures of Do-
rothy Dare, A Daugbter of Daring, The Exploits of Elaine, The Haz-
ards of Helen, Ruth of the Rockies, Pearl of the Army, A Lass...
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Deanna Durbin and the Mismatched Voice
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 69–98.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... In The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (dir. Bruce Man-
ning, US, Durbin cares for a band of nine war orphans
picked up in China. Her character, Ruth, convinces the family of a
wealthy commodore that she is his widow and brings the children
to live in his enormous San Francisco mansion. In one of the lm’s
most...
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Holiness Codes and Holy Homosexuals: Interpreting Gay and Lesbian Christian Subculture
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 151–193.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Jonathan; How much I loved you! And your love for
me was deeper than the love of women” (2 Samuel 1:26).
A similarly intense same-sex relationship exists in the Old
Testament story of Ruth and Naomi, the topic of Mona West’s...
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When Is A Lesbian Not a Lesbian?: The Lesbian Continuum and the Mainstream Femme Film
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 144–180.
Published: 01 September 1991
.... But it too places lesbianism in a heterosexual context by having
Lianna Massey (Linda Griffiths) reject her marriage to have a lesbian
relationship with Ruth Brennan (Jane Hallaren). As in Personal Best
and Entre NOUS,the film ends with female friendship rather than...
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Editorial: Television and the Female Consumer
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 4–8.
Published: 01 January 1988
... of the College of Arts and Science
has been particularly helpful. We would like to thank Dean Jack Karnp•
meier and Associate Dean Richard Niemi. We couldn't have done it at all
without Assistant Dean Ruth Hopkins's help. Two staff members of the
Susan B. Anthony Center, Alice Powell and June...
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Passion, Commitment, Compassion: Les Justes au Panthéon by Agnès Varda
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 87–107.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., France/Netherlands, 2017). 9. The Book of Ruth, an ancient Hebrew text, is part of the Bible, as is the Book of Esther, the only two Books attributed to women. The Book of Ruth is included in the third division of the Writings of the Hebrew Bible. As I write in another essay on Les Justes...
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Greta Garbo and Silent Cinema: The Actress As Art Deco Icon
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 83–111.
Published: 01 December 2001
... home to
Sweden: “They don’t have a type like me out here” (111).
Certainly, the publicity that circulated around Garbo
highlighted her sophisticated persona. In a 1935 Photoplay arti-
cle, Ruth Rankin fuels the anxieties of her married female read-
ers in the wording of a caption she...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 188–189.
Published: 01 May 1996
... Ecology and a Play Ethic by Joseph W.
Meeker. University of Arizona Press, 1997. $39.95.
Defining Cinema edited by Peter Lehman. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism edited by Ruth
Frankenberg. Duke University Press...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 240–241.
Published: 01 December 1982
... Copyright © 1982 by Camera Obscura 1982 240 Books Received
Fassbinder by Peter Iden, Yaak Karsunke, Ruth McCormick, Hans-
Helmut Prinzler, Wilhelm Roth, Wolfram Schutte, Wilfried Wiegand.
Tanam Press. New York, 1981.
Apparatus (Cinematic Apparatus...
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Breaking at the Edges: Carolee Schneemann's Desires for Dance
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 165–173.
Published: 01 September 2021
... spontaneously. The work premiered on 29 January 1963 as part of the Judson Dance Theater's Concert no. 3, a free evening of performance that included works such as Yvonne Rainer's We Shall Run and Three Seascapes , Steve Paxton and Rainer's Word Words , Ruth Emerson's Giraffe , and Fred Herko's Little Gym...
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Evolving Narrative Structures Forge New Cine-Love at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
... as a single mother,
but refuses to accept support from Ruby or their mother, Ruth
(Lorraine Toussaint). By the middle of the lm, Ruth faces her
own painful realization that her way of modeling life as a solitary
struggle has impeded both Ruby and Gina to move actively toward
happiness in their life...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 188–190.
Published: 01 May 2003
... India. London: British Film Institute, 2002.
Creed, Barbara, and Jeanette Horn, eds. Body Trade: Captivity,
Cannibalism, and Colonialism in the Pacific. New York: Routledge,
2001.
Dance, Robert, and Bruce Robertson. Ruth Harriet Louise and
Hollywood Glamour Photography. Berkeley...
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Jean-François Lyotard: A Partial Bibliography
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 107–109.
Published: 01 December 1984
.... 64-69.
“Endurance and the Profession, ” trans. Christophe Gallier, Steven Ungar
and Barbara Johnson, Yale French Stadies, no. 63 (1982), pp. 72-77.
“The Insistence of Pragmatics’ ’ (with Jean-Loup Thebaud), trans. Ruth
Brinkley and Robert Brinkley, Mirsirszjjpi Review, no. 33 (Winter...
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Brushing Classical Hollywood Narrative Against the Grain of History
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 137–145.
Published: 01 September 1988
... the Navy Cross and simultaneously [through a dis•
solve] accepts the love of his fiancee, Ruth-suggests that the world
of war and the world of the family do not merely coincide but have
a necessary ideological bond and are part of the same space" (p.88).
But if in the war-affirmative narrative, "itis...
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The Silence of the Lambs and the Flaying of Feminist Theory
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 4–35.
Published: 01 September 1991
...,
Senator Ruth Martin. In counterpoint to the film’s multiple paternal
presences, Ruth is the film’s sole mother, and her behavior transforms
conventional maternal behavior in important ways. For example, when
she gives a televised speech pleading for Catherine’s life, each word...
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