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Passion, Commitment, Compassion: Les Justes au Panthéon by Agnès Varda

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 87–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838553
Published: 01 May 2021
... and learning. The ceremony brought together three women of conscience, all dedicated to the power of memory and its ability to bind humanity in a common purpose. Simone Veil and Marceline Loridan-Ivens were both survivors of Auschwitz, while Varda, their exact contemporary, commemorated their experience...
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Cinematic Exile: Performing the Foreign Body on Screen in Roman Polanski's The Tenant

Katarzyna Marciniak
Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 1–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-15-1_43-1
Published: 01 May 2000
... Polanski), a Pol- ish immigrant in France who moves into a Parisian apartment that has belonged to a lesbian, Egyptologist Simone Choule. Simone’s suicidal leap from the window of her apartment func- tions as an arresting point of entry...
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White Men Aren't

Thomas DiPiero
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 112–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10-3_30-112
Published: 01 May 1992
... that it would apparently have us believe are relatively easily surmountable ob- stacles in the road toward social understanding. The first ostensibly improbable association is between Mack (Kevin Kline), a white immigration lawyer, and Simon (Danny Glover), a black tow-truck...
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Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in Progressive “White” Cinema: Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa and The Crying Game

Joy James
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 32–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-12-3_36-32
Published: 01 September 1995
.... In the films discussed here, Jordan’s mulattas-Mona Lisa’s “Simone” and The Crying Game’s “Di1”-are the transracial women he creates. It is routine to love within one’s caste, it is noble to love, or better still to champion, those from subordinate castes, particularly...
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Books Received

Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-3_18-156
Published: 01 September 1988
... Kaplan. Methuen, 1987. $11.95. Marguerite Duras by Marguerite Duras, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot and others. City Lights, 1988. $9.95. Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media by Simon Watney. Uni• versity of Minnesota Press, 1987. $14.95. Discerning...
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Announcements

Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 148–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4-2_11-148
Published: 01 September 1983
... to be in the hands ofallpeople, not just the wealthy. ISSN: 0197-3401 Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir 149 Inspired by the election of Francois Mitterrand and the French Socialist party in 1981, a group of women proposed and received funding for a women-run audio...
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Books Received

Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 223–225.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-12-2_35-223
Published: 01 May 1995
...: The Delirious Cinema of Suzuki Seijun edited by Simon Field and Tony Rayns. Indiana University Press, 1995. $9.95. The Maltese Falcon edited by William Luhr. Rutgers University Press, 1995. $16.00. Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema by Janet Staiger...
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The Feminist Refusal of I May Destroy You

Madeline Ullrich
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 191–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11024122
Published: 01 May 2024
... of a parallel: the theme of the episode is an exploration of the ever-so-fine line between a lie, a secret, and what must remain repressed or unspoken in order for one to survive. In the opening minutes of “The Cause the Cure,” present-day Arabella learns from her friend, Simon, that Terry told him to lie about...
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Hitchcock's Secret Agency

Marty Roth
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 34–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10-3_30-34
Published: 01 May 1992
... ): 114 —133. Modleski , Tania The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory . New York: Routledge, 1988 . Morgan , Ted Maugham . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980 . Norton , Rictor The Homosexual Literary Tradition: An Interpretation . New York: Revisionist...
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Books Received

Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 373–377.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-373
Published: 01 December 1989
... Schulte-Sasse. University of Minnesota Press, 1989. $14.95. The Imaginary Industry: Australian Film in the Late 80’s edited by Susan Dermody and Elizabeth Jacka. North Ryde: AEfRS Publications (from the Australian Film and Television School), 1988. Simone de Beauvoir by Lisa Appignanesi. Penguin...
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Amazing Grace: Decadence, Deviance, Disco

Ramon Lobato
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 134–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-008
Published: 01 September 2007
... interest in Jones’s music, particularly in her early 1980s albums, whose austere pop aesthetic — what Simon Reynolds and Joy Press call “the eroticisation of alienation” — is beginning to sound cutting edge again, in a back-to-the-future kind of way.7 In 2003,  Jones was a special guest at London’s...
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Violent Vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and the Disappearing Woman

Karen Beckman
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 77–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-3_39-77
Published: 01 September 1996
.... As Sam P. Simone writes in Hitchcock as Activist: Politics and the War Films, "In 1938, Austria and Czechoslovakia, as autonomous nations, had 'vanished' from the continent of Europe. Chamberlain gave Czechoslovakia to Germany to buy time for England Inevitably, Hitchcock's reference to these two...
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Janet Walker

Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 314–318.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-314
Published: 01 December 1989
... Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 314 Janet Walker . . . the body is not a thing, it is a situation . . . Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir explored the sexual differentiation of animal spe...
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Alien Intellect and the Roboticization of the Scientist

Sarah L. Higley
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 129–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-14-1-2_40-41-129
Published: 01 May 1997
.... Thinking this meant his oracular metal head, he dies of sunstroke. SIMON MAGUS. This second-century Samaritan sorcerer and em- peror is said to have challenged God’s creation of Adam by making a boy from air and returning him to air. His enemies charged him with necromancy, stating that he...
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Raised Fists: Politics, Technology, and Embodiment in 1970s French Feminist Video Collectives

Ros Murray
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 93–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454441
Published: 01 May 2016
... and establish the Parisian archive and distribution center, the Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir. Early portable video provided an excellent tool for collective 96  •  Camera Obscura activism. The Sony Portapak that Godard refers to, which arrived in France at exactly the right time (1968...
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Chantal Akerman and the Cinéfille

Elspeth Mitchell
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278572
Published: 01 May 2023
... vocation as a filmmaker.” 15 Taubin understands that in the pathos of this moment of Michèle's profound aloneness and social exclusion, we also find the kernel of her “vocation,” not in femininity as analyzed in relation to the girl's situation by Simone de Beauvoir, but in an as-yet-unnamed position...
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Contributors

Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 174–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-3_15-174
Published: 01 December 1986
... and Sexual Difference Simon Watney The Banality of Gender Jeffrey Weeks Masculinity and the Science of Desire Feminism and Psychoanalysis Bice Benvenuto Com pliance and Disagreemen t Mary Jacobus Madonna:like Virgin Richard Rand...
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French Feminism

Nancy Huston
Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 237–244.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1-2-3-1_3-4-237
Published: 01 May 1979
... of feminists are politicized. The transition from reformism to radicalism was long in coming. In spite of trailblazers like Simone de Beauvoir, who conceived the notion of The Second Sex before my parents conceived me (and the impact of this book can never be overemphasized...
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Interview with Hu Mei

Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 32–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-3_18-32
Published: 01 September 1988
... these issues very much. Simone de Beauvoir is very systematic about those issues in The Second Sex, but there's nothing like that in China. Some women authors are dealing with these sorts of things. The woman who wrote "Army Nurse," Ding Xiaoqi, has another short story called "The Other Woman." The woman...
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Adam Harvey's “Anti-Drone” Wear in Three Sites of Opacity

Jennifer Rhee
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 175–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592532
Published: 01 September 2016
... predictive knowing and surprise prevention through visibility and exposure. And yet, as Simone Browne, Kelly Gates, and Shoshana Amielle Magnet all compellingly argue, surveillance technologies’ pro- cesses of making visible are themselves coded in histories and prac- tices that discriminate...
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