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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Anne McKnight This essay considers how ideas about liberation flourished in Japanese sex films in the 1970s by exploring the genre of the housewife film as it traverses industrial contexts. Liberation was abandoned by melancholic male intellectuals after the 1970 failure to halt Japan's military...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., their sex, and their sound tracks; it would seem that the footage in both films might have been shown in any order, that anyone on-screen might have sex with anyone else, and that any ambient sound might score any image. In cinema, synchronization takes disparate image and sound tracks and fixes them...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 1–33.
Published: 01 September 2014
... a director humiliates her at an audition by demanding the right to inspect her body, she begins disembodied phone sex work. Most critics of the film either emphasize the main character's growth or observe that her interiority remains unavailable to viewers despite the film's extensive use of close-ups...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Özgür Yaren This article explores trash erotic productions in 1970s Turkish cinema. What was popularly referred to as the “sex influx” ( seks furyası ) was the result of persistent economic and political crises and symptomatic of the ends of certain cultural and economic modes dominant in film...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 101–127.
Published: 01 May 2015
...
at Seaside Heights, NJ,” by Flickr user NVS_Inc., www.flickr
.com/photos.68135844@N00/4826995594/. Both images
Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 Generic,
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode
Sex on the Shore:
Care and the Ethics of License
in Jersey Shore
Misha Kavka...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Shilyh Warren This article analyzes Performing the Border (dir. Ursula Biemann, Switzerland and Mexico, 1999), Señorita extraviada ( Missing Young Woman , dir. Lourdes Portillo, Mexico, 2001), and The Price of Sex (dir. Mimi Chakarova, US, 2011), three documentaries that focus on the ways that poor...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 92–111.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Phillip Brian Harper Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980)
Playing in the Dark: Privacy, Public Sex,
and the Erotics of the Cinema Venue
Phillip Brian Harper
I. Toilet
Public sex loomed large in the popular consciousness...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 31–68.
Published: 01 January 1996
...Scott D. Paulin
Sex and the Singled Girl: Queer
Representation and Containment
in Single White Female
Scott D. Paulin
The title of Barbet Schroeder's 1992 film Single White Female im-
mediately suggests three terms that would presumably be useful...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 34–51.
Published: 01 September 1996
...Bill Nichols; Gerald Peary Jennifer Montgomery at the 1995 Toronto Festival of Festivals.
Photo by Karen Schmeer.
Children, Art, Sex, Pornography: Jennifer
Montgomery's Art for Teachers of Children
Bill Nichols and Gerald Peary...
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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 3. The staging by Kouzuki (Cho Jin-woong) of Hideko's sex act with a wooden mannequin in The Handmaiden ( Ah-ga-ssi , dir. Park Chan-wook, South Korea, 2016) recalls a shot in a controversial Japanese New Wave classic.
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in Self-Suspension in Frames: Hito Steyerl's Lovely Andrea
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 3. Filming back at the TV crew in the Sex Archive. Lovely Andrea (dir. Hito Steyerl, Japan/Austria/Germany, 2007). Courtesy of the artist
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 86–100.
Published: 01 September 1983
...Luli McCarroll © 1983 by Camera Obscura 1983 The Body Human: The Sexes (CBS)
Dissecting The Body Human: The Sexes
Luli McCa1ioll
The Body Human: The Sexes is but one episode of a prestigious prime
time CBS series called The Body Human. As its title suggests, it investi•
gates...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 65–93.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Ariane Cruz Reading Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape and the dialogue surrounding it as a most fecund site for the collaborative laboring of black male sexuality, authenticity, and spectatorship, this article reveals the constitutive relationship between authenticity and spectatorship in the production...
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in Calculating Couples: Computing Intimacy and 1980s Romance Software
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 1. Software cover art for IntraCourse (Intracorp, 1986) resembles the aesthetics of popular sex manuals like The Joy of Sex , by Alex Comfort (1972).
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Slaves of the House and Victims of Love: New Life and Relationship Challenges in Dwelling Narrowness
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 35–57.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Huike Wen Dwelling Narrowness ( Wo ju , translated literally as “snail dwelling”) became Chinese netizens' “favorite TV drama” in 2009. In this paper, I focus on a complex of issues in contemporary Chinese society about which Dwelling Narrowness provoked extensive discussion: love, sex...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 137–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
.... It represents a failed work of mourning for a lost lover of the same sex or perhaps for same-sex desire itself—a destructive relationship to a form of desire he can scarcely acknowledge. Camera Obscura 2008 David Copenhafer teaches literature and film at the University of Pennsylvania and at Bard High...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the classic romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle (dir. Nora Ephron, US, 1993), this article suggests that in fact romantic comedy may itself be considered a melancholy genre. Insofar as the heterosexual coupling that typically ends romantic comedies forecloses same-sex desire, the foreclosed objects exist...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 187–193.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Heather Davis Plastic is a seemingly ubiquitous material, one that is both all too visible and, as such, opaque. Beginning with the use of plastic for sex toys, this essay tracks some of the strange convergences between plastic, as a material, and queer theory. In particular, it follows how...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 1–35.
Published: 01 September 2020
... photographs, seen as the public culmination of Jenner’s gender transition, and Almodóvar’s fictional film, centered on the forced surgical sex reassignment of one of its characters, both comment on the role of technically produced images in constructing visually articulated bodily materiality as central...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2008
... questions of desire and identification: (1) it displaces same-sex desire into the past (I used to desire Hercules, but now I identify with him); (2) identification is displaced from its proper target (the skinny and helpless adolescent sidekick) to a much more flattering one (Hercules); (3) the peplum...
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