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“Wherever you may run, you cannot escape him”: Leni Riefenstahl's Self-Reflection and Romantic Transcendence of Nazism in Tiefland
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 106–128.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Robert von Dassanowsky Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Leni Riefenstahl in Tiefland
"Wherever you may run, you cannot
escape him": Leni Riefenstahl's
Self-Reflection and Romantic
Transcendence of Nazism in Tiefland
Robert von Dassanowsky...
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A Strange Child of Paradise: The Artistry of Arletty's “Self” in Les enfants du paradis
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 93–127.
Published: 01 May 2017
... unacknowledged by later critics. The author argues that Arletty's unique form of stardom—allowing her “self” to unite otherwise contrary attributes—anchors Enfants 's reconciliatory influence over a society fragmented by war and enemy occupation. As the actress purportedly declared: “Si mon cœur est français...
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Self-Health and Healthcaring
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 128–135.
Published: 01 May 1981
...Stephen Grosz; Bruce McAuley © 1981 by Camera Obscura 1981 Healthcaring From Our End ofthe Speculum
Self-Health and Healthcaring
Stephen Grosx and Bruce McAuky
Self-Health (1974) and Healthcuring (1976) are two important films
that present a feminist perspective on women’s...
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The Auto-Tuned Self: Modulating Voice and Gender in Digital Media Ecologies
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 65–97.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to modify toward their own entertaining ends. In this series of repurposings, techniques of control and modulation surface at multiple levels, almost invariably circling back around the status of a certain type of femininity and its expression. The self in control society collides, here, with the question...
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She Listened: Vardian Self-Portraiture and Auto-Refrains of Sea, Wind, and Sand
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 61–85.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Nadine Boljkovac Abstract This article considers Vardian acts of listening and (self-)portraiture. With works that celebrate the material world in its myriad forms and scales, from a beloved button to a bottomless sea, Agnès Varda developed a method of empathetic engagement. Her encounters grasped...
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Self-Suspension in Frames: Hito Steyerl's Lovely Andrea
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 173–201.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Lou Silhol-Macher Abstract This article traces the role of frames in suspending the self in Lovely Andrea (Japan/Austria/Germany), a video essay by Hito Steyerl presented at Documenta 12 in 2007. A seldom‐analyzed artwork within Steyerl's otherwise widely circulating and discussed oeuvre, Lovely...
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 9. “Two feelings at the same time.” Ageha performing self-suspension. Lovely Andrea (dir. Hito Steyerl, Japan/Austria/Germany, 2007). Courtesy of the artist
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Self-suspension in reverse. Ageha's hair flows up as she hangs upside down....
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 10. Self-suspension in reverse. Ageha's hair flows up as she hangs upside down. Lovely Andrea (dir. Hito Steyerl, Japan/Austria/Germany, 2007). Courtesy of the artist
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The Ins and Outs of Female Sensibility : A 1973 Video by Lynda Benglis
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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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From This Body to Yours: Porn, Affect, and Performance Art Documentation
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 63–93.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... The masturbatory quality of performance documentation and porn is characterized by self-pleasure and a plentitude of affect. It also involves the structuring of a present performance in relation to the fantasy of a previous performance that is viewed in a technologically mediated form of documentation...
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The Bachelor's Fantasy: Autoimmunity in Theory
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 103–123.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Alexander R. Galloway Rey Chow, in her book The Age of the World Target , identifies a rise in self-referentiality across a number of domains of contemporary life. Fueled by Martin Heidegger's writings on “the world picture,” Chow asserts that “understanding … is now an act inseparable from the act...
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Lena Horne's Impersona
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 11–45.
Published: 01 May 2008
... an “unperforming of the self” through the cultivation of an impersonal intimacy that deferred a fixed subjectivity and frustrated the racial expectations of her audiences. She developed this impersona through three interlocking tactics: a disarticulation of self and song; a reversal of the psychic positions...
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Show Me Yours: Cyber-Exhibitionism from Perversion to Politics
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 131–159.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Julie Levin Russo This article returns to Sigmund Freud's and Jacques Lacan's theories of scopophilia to intervene in a pessimistic thread of new media criticism. By complicating doomsday scenarios, it unpacks the complexities of exhibitionism iterated as online self-display, including aspects...
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Pantomimes of Ecstasy: BeautifulAgony.com and the Representation of Pleasure
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of nudity, it contributes to a long-standing obsession with revealing a person's interiority through the translation of embodied signifiers. Modern technologies, and the cultures of self-display they have fostered, offer up new methods of achieving what more self-consciously empirical projects have always...
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Beyond Indiewood: The Everyday Ethics of Nicole Holofcener
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 137–159.
Published: 01 May 2014
...—who takes a highly self-conscious approach to his own signature. This article examines how the films of indie female director Nicole Holofcener offer a critique of this ironic and often cynical pose. Holofcener's work functions as the largely actionless observation of urban, affluent social space...
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Memory Resurrected in HD: Collective Digital Video Filmmaking as Production of Counterhistory in the Folk Memory Project
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 175–185.
Published: 01 May 2016
... produced as part of this project, Self-Portrait with Three Women (dir. Zhang Mengqi, China, 2010) and Children's Village (dir. Zou Xueping, China, 2012), the article argues that the project produces a counterhistory through collective film production in a digital format. These films foreground...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 30–59.
Published: 01 December 2020
... participate in environmental social justice while also enfolding the environment into sexual arrangements. “Masturbatory ecologies” thus signifies a self-gratifying mode of environmentalism that harnesses the self, the body, and the erotic to foster positive environmental world building in apocalyptic times...
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The Perverted Ancestry of the Antiheroine: Bad Mothers and Unruly Daughters in Sharp Objects and Mare of Easttown
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 63–93.
Published: 01 May 2024
... antiheroines Camille Preaker and Mare Sheehan from HBO's Sharp Objects and Mare of Easttown and argues that the antiheroine is premised on a disturbed mother-daughter dynamic that complexly manifests in two key opposing ways: in Sharp Objects , as the destruction of both self and other via a dynamic...
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Imagining Television as a Vital Queer Medium: Riot
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Susan Potter Abstract The Australian gay liberation movement has been memorialized on-screen only relatively recently, with the production of the self-described telemovie Riot (dir. Jeffrey Walker, Australia, 2018). A fictional narrative based on the real-world activism that led to the first Sydney...
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Immaterial Child Labor: Media Advocacy, Autoethnography, and the Case of Born into Brothels
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Pooja Rangan This article investigates the contemporary phenomenon of “child media advocacy,” or the practice of “empowering” child subjects by providing them with media technologies as a means of self-representation. Tracing the genealogy of this practice to an older ethnographic tradition...
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