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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 77–111.
Published: 01 May 2007
... University Press. From X Marks the Spot: Chicago Gang Wars in Pictures
(Chicago: Spot Publishing, 1930); Georges Bataille, review,
Documents 2 (1930): 52 – 53
Undoing the Scene of the Crime:
Perspective and the Vanishing
of the Spectator
Domietta Torlasco
Un beau film: the crime...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 169–179.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Gerda Johanna Cammaer The small Belgian coastal town of Knokke-le-Zoute once was the scene for one of the most impressive gatherings of the international film avant-garde, when it hosted the last three editions of the illustrious EXPRMNTL film festival (1963, 1967, and 1974). This article focuses...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 55–79.
Published: 01 May 2023
... directs the viewer relentlessly away from the horizon of the event and toward the cumulative, the mundane, the habitual. As such, rather than being merely the assumed biopolitical matériel of the cinematic environment which form the background for scenes of action, unremarked and unremarkable domestic...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 34–49.
Published: 01 September 1977
...Martin Walsh
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's
'Accompaniment for a Cinematographic
Scene' :Straub/Huillet: Brecht: Schoenberg
Martin Walsh
Pleasure ofthe text. Classics. Culture. Intelligence. Irony.
Delicacy. Euphoria. Mastery. Security: art...
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 165–173.
Published: 01 December 1986
...Enno Patalas; Miriam Hansen © 1986 by Camera Obscura 1986 Metropolis, Scene 103
Enno Patalas
You may remember:
“Within easy reach of the city’s guiding hand stood a strange house.”
“The man who lived there-Rotwang-had worked thirty years to bring true
the great dream...
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 66–85.
Published: 01 December 1986
...Constance Penley © 1986 by Camera Obscura 1986 The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
Time Travel, Primal Scene,
and the Critical Dystopia
Constance Penle y
If the sure sign of postmodern success is the ability to inspire spin-offs,
The Terminator was a prodigy. The film...
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in A Problem of Fit : Athina Rachel Tsangari and Greek “Weird Wave” Cinema
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 1. Opening scene of Fit (dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece, 1994). © HAOS Film / Photographer Despina Spyrou
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in Symmetry, Violence, and The Handmaiden 's Queer Colonial Intimacies
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. The heroines’ celebratory lovemaking in the final scene of The Handmaiden ( Ah-ga-ssi , dir. Park Chan-wook, South Korea, 2016) exhibits a mannered symmetry.
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in Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1. A Gotham street scene and Barbara at computer in her bedroom. “Oracle: Year One; Born of Hope,” The Batman Chronicles , no. 5 (Summer 1996), 7. Scan provided by the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection at Michigan State University
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 12. The dinner party scene in Uncle Yanco (US/France, 1967)
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in Archaeological Narrative; or, Nostalgic Fascination with the Obsolete in the South Korean TV Drama Reply 1988
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 4. A scene from an exhibition, titled The 1988 Olympics and The Momentum of Changes in Seoul , July 28–October 14, 2018, Seoul Museum of History
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Ned Schantz This essay considers the recurring problem of plot alternatives in Alfred Hitchcock, of powerful shadow scenes that overwhelm the manifest plot and demand a critical account of their own. Confronting such shadow scenes, the viewer takes up a social position in a long chain of failed...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 177–183.
Published: 01 December 2016
... focuses on the censorship of femininity and sexuality in Italian cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. For the project, Radha May retrieved censored scenes that had never been seen in public and created a film installation, a performance, and a digital publication. She distributed the recovered material further...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 137–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
...David Copenhafer In David Lynch's Blue Velvet , music is a key component of the film's intricate staging of gender and sexuality. “Mourning and Music” interprets four scenes in which characters either sing songs or imitate singing. It argues that the unsettling appearance of gender and sexuality...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... The female protagonists in these films are, accordingly, associated with Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection (in particular, the construction of the maternal figure as abject through the imagery of parturition and the primal scene) and depicted in various guises as the monstrous-feminine, a potent source...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 119–159.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... This article focuses on one of the most commercially successful Hollywood films of 1946, John M. Stahl's Leave Her to Heaven, arguing that the film's spectacular Technicolor landscapes function as a melodramatic device for mediating ambivalence about the social role of women at that time. In this film, scenes...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 95–135.
Published: 01 December 2011
... reconstruction of the genre and its vintage mise-en-scène evokes both sexploitation cinema as well as the commodified landscape of the late 1960s and early 1970s, embodying itself as a time capsule constructed in retrospect. Viva , in its indulgence in the material artifacts, conventions, and “dated” precepts...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2012
... policy governing cinematic nudity. Long thought to be lost (and the only one of her four films currently extant), the film features Munson in a dual role as the allegorical figure of “Virtue” and as a young woman who becomes an artists' model. She poses nude in scenes throughout the film. Accordingly...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 1–35.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the cruelty of celebrity culture to gain their own prestige. By making casting choices that exploit tabloid knowledge and by recreating cinematographically the scene of the paparazzo's invasive gaze and the celebrity's evasion, filmmakers energize their own art works through the excessive extradiegetic...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 103–123.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., Catherine Malabou, Susan Buck-Morss, and others, I consider the many scenes of self-reference and disavowal in contemporary theory, with an eye on how and whether this autoimmune disorder can be superseded and on the elemental question that is again struck: What should criticism be? Alexander R...
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