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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 143–179.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Erin Schroeder Camera Obscura 2001 Erin Schroeder received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Rochester in 1999. She is currently pursuing research in Martinique. 05-Schroeder.sh 5/29/01 12:39 PM Page iv
Menace II Society (dir. Allen...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 6–23.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Grant Farred Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton, 1991)
No Way out of the Menaced Society:
Loyalty within the Boundedness of Race
Grant Farred
Where there is an actual arc of rising violence...
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in Breaking at the Edges: Carolee Schneemann's Desires for Dance
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. Carolee Schneemann, Newspaper Event (1963). Photograph by Al Giese. © 2020 Hottelet/Giese/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 97–129.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Scott Balcerzak Known as the Sons of the Desert, the official Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appreciation society is unique in that its very structures lampoon the rank-and-file maleness promoted by “legitimate” fraternal orders such as the Freemasons. To understand the comedy duo's lasting cultural...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 41–71.
Published: 01 December 2009
... it. However, unlike the mother, who is unable to acknowledge her trauma as such, the daughter understands the traumatic wound that society has inflicted on her own and her mother's bodies. The film employs two aesthetic strategies (a fixed camera and the absence of reverse shots) that expose the realistic...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 65–97.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., aesthetic, and gendered genealogies of media-technical modulation. The modulated voice given such extraordinary staging in “Can't Hug Every Cat” is therefore restored to the longer history of voice modulation, which is itself closely tied to the rise of control societies and digital media...
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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 (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 77–107.
Published: 01 May 2020
... society; and the necropolitical function of the killing fields as “truth spaces.” Female testimony, putting forth necrophagic ethics, ultimately becomes the foundation of traumatic history. The conclusion suggests that these intense, embodied first-generation memories resist remembering and instead...
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2. Carolee Schneemann, Americana I Ching Apple Pie (1975/1977). Detail from performance documentation, text by Schneeman, photographs by Su Friedrich. © 2021 Carolee Schneemann Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 157–191.
Published: 01 May 2012
...-Lucumí/ Santería mythology, and in general creolized in postcolonial Cuba in María Antonia . As each Carmen film reworks the narrative of Carmen to fit its particular culture and to critically discuss social inequalities plaguing its society, María Antonia resituates Carmen in urban Havana to expose...
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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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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 99–131.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Seb Franklin This essay addresses the forms of utopian imagination that are produced when concepts such as society, community, and revolution are rendered using computational and communicational metaphors. By connecting recent phenomena such as the notion of “Twitter revolution” and Sheryl...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and feminist artistic practice in relation to Palestinian strategies for resistance. Together, the “Queer/Palestinian” films suggest the urgency for Palestinian visual artists to persistently generate new means of expressing, embodying, and critiquing visions for Palestinian society. Films such as Victoria...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 31–61.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of production and reception, I argue that the content and form of TV in its developmental years directly contextualize industry and society. In its first decades of mass use, television refigured spatial relationships by creating an uncanny liminality between the public sphere of commerce and entertainment...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 93–115.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., and La mujer sin cabeza in the late 1990s facilitate a complementary, allegorical reading of the trilogy in which the films' protagonists serve as metaphors of Argentina's civil society in its transition from an infantilized social agent during the dictatorship in the 1970s, to the equivalent of a brazen...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 103–139.
Published: 01 September 2008
... speech, that the surge of weeping men in recent Israeli films–men who discuss their inability to cry or to stop crying, who parade their tears–might be read as an attempt by Israeli mainstream entertainment to deal with Israeli society's infatuation with victimhood and its tendency to conflate identity...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., to survive they embark on an Oedipal journey. This suggests that the film performs a “safety-valve” function for the contemporary viewing subject experiencing increased confusion as to his or her roles in society, for the subject increasingly confronted with a crisis in the Oedipal relation. However, it may...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 141–151.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., the videos demonstrate open forms that are produced through and resonate with these individuals' collective participation. Presenting both the catastrophic situation of contemporary society and utopian aspirations, the videos present the “space of the common” that is made by participants' performative...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 77–105.
Published: 01 December 2023
... wrongness in the settler nation‐state, in heteronormative society, and ultimately in the delimiting category of the human, but the film imagines rightness in nature as a queer, gender‐fluid space where all creatures can just be. Through employing notions of trans aesthetics, the (non)sovereign erotic...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., viewers are awakened to the unfortunate history of Japanese colonialism and thus experience a feeling of regret or melancholy for the past. This cinematic encounter with the past also resonates with cultural imagery of Seoul as a forgotten colonial city that has reemerged across Korean society, especially...
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