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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... is currently completing a monograph titled “Subject to Reality,” which reexamines feminist documentary films and filmmakers of the 1970s. © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 feminist documentary sex trafficking Ciudad Juárez ethics identification Figure 1. An interview with Vika in The Price of Sex...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 32–73.
Published: 01 September 2006
... that selling organs is uncomfortably close
to selling people. As Rohter summarizes, “as in sex trafficking,
the marketplace is one in which coercion and exploitation may be
unavoidable.” But would Rohter’s argument about coercion and
exploitation not be equally applicable to sweatshop conditions...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
...-dimensional tits and ass for the rest of my life.”1
Such a statement is enough to give anyone, but particularly an
Esquire reader, pause. Not only does the Web site, BeautifulAgony
.com, refrain from trafficking in the “two-dimensional tits and
ass” of which Isanov so eloquently speaks...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 77–105.
Published: 01 December 2023
...‐fluid desires, bodies, and sex, alongside its examination of the psychic consequences of settler colonial violence, make it a thus far unique film in the Nordic context — even though this examination happens through the distancing effect of trolls as metaphorical Natives. The main characters embody...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 95–119.
Published: 01 December 2024
... to hooks, “turned the black drag ball into a spectacle for the entertainment of those presumed to be on the outside of this experience looking in,” with the film's aesthetic trafficking in spectacle overshadowing any other ways of understanding the lived realities of Black queer existence in the United...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 93–119.
Published: 01 December 2017
... real as a signal of a
virile modernity, casting concern for the exterior and the ornamen-
tal as effeminate, perverse, and phony. This comes to a head when,
toward the end of the film, Yunioshi calls the police on Holly and
has her arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking, revealing himself...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 139–159.
Published: 01 May 2020
...: the wealthy pay human traffickers vast sums of money to torture young tourists to death on the site of an empty factory in Eastern Europe. The West is presented as a site of consumer pleasure and excess in which the exploitation of bodies is concealed by the cover of law, as Joshua (Derek Richardson) protests...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 119–143.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to the voiceless. In Shilyh Warren's analysis, Performing the Border (dir. Ursula Biemann, Switzerland, 2000), The Price of Sex (dir. Mimi Chakarova, US/UAE/Bulgaria/Moldova/Turkey, 2011), and Señorita Extraviada (dir. Lourdes Portillo, Mexico, 2002)—films on trafficking, rape, and sexual slavery...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... The article concludes by arguing that Born into Brothels puts to work the immaterial or affective labor of children in the production of cultural commodities as a humane and “empowering” alternative to coerced sex work. This move to mobilize the child as a new figure of economic promise indicates the vexed...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... “The Stapler,”
season 1, episode 6 of The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
(2011 – 13), 8 July 2011
Precarious-Girl Comedy:
Issa Rae, Lena Dunham,
and Abjection Aesthetics
Rebecca Wanzo
Comedy has long trafficked in shame and abjection to produce
laughter. Shame may...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 41–73.
Published: 01 September 2010
... or aggrandizing bodies that differ
from one’s own in age, race, sex, and shape.”19
Frueh’s opposition between “monster/beauty” and “norma-
tive, ideal representations of beauty” also clarifies the symbolism
of the objects and bodies presented in Mary’s Cherries. This video,
too, presents...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 141–169.
Published: 01 September 2004
... emphasized.11 Indeed, around the time she
was making Shoes, Weber drew scenarios from some of the most
sensational news stories of the day: a journalistic exposé of opium
trafficking in San Francisco’s Chinatown became the basis for
Hop, or the Devil’s Brew (US, 1916); a much-publicized capital pun...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
...: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
(New York: Routledge, 1999). Other prominent works theorizing
the importance of masquerade and performativity include Luce
Irigaray’s This Sex Which Is Not One, trans. Catherine Porter with
Carolyn Burke (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 103–131.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of immunology has been challenged, however, by more recent accounts of “microchimerism” or “ ‘bidirectional cell trafficking’ between fetal and maternal bodies,” and Martin traces the evolution of the figurative language that, in true material discursive fashion, has always been bound up with the insights...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 129–160.
Published: 01 May 1997
... that “the female sex machine serves not only as
a shiny surface on which male visions of femininity may be etched but
as a mirror whose reflection reinforces the masculine sense of self.”20
The robot woman is the phallic feminine: desired, but also an exten-
sion and production of that desire within...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 93–127.
Published: 01 December 2015
... lands as the throat. The good doctors of antiquity,
like the uxurious Freud, often recommended sex and pregnancy
to their patients in order to keep that vagabond organ where it
Female Neurosis in Two Films by Anatole Litvak • 111
belongs, cozily nestled against the pelvis...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 187–237.
Published: 01 January 1996
... substance favored by politicians, dema-
gogues, and aesthetic over-dosed Humanists. In analyses of Mexicans
as well as "Mexicans," we are trafficking as much with mass culture
as masked culture-here please call to mind speculations on Mexican
subjectivity from the once-lucid Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth...
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