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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 129–135.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the residency to Sachs and invited her to make a film with the material. Through her own filmmaking, Sachs explores Hammer's experience of solitude. She places text on the screen as a way to be in dialogue with both Hammer and her audience. This essay provides context for the intentions and challenges that grew...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 92–122.
Published: 01 January 1996
... on both
monitors, as if to suggest that Nicolas resists putting himself in relation
to others. Between this episode and the next, we see the word "factory"
mutate against a black screen into the word "solitude." In the second
episode, Nicolas sits in center frame at the kitchen table, eating...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2002
... adds, “sometimes in the evening someone whispers in
my bedroom. I shut off the television, but the whispering goes on.
Is it the wind, or my ancestors? History of solitude; solitude of
history.” With the word solitude Godard situates himself fully
within the dialectic. A series of excerpts from...
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 211–215.
Published: 01 May 1979
...
in relation to this desire, especially in the instances where both maker
and watcher are also female? It is precisely that desire cannot find its
place, is denied a circuit that would channel it, is denied its sublimation.
At the level of the character, Anna has chosen a life of solitude, of
rendez...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 27–63.
Published: 01 May 2016
... is asexual), that it is cer-
tainly possible to experience intimacy without sex. Brian and Eliza-
beth’s relationship is not without its complications: Elizabeth tells
us Brian likes to kiss, and even though she doesn’t, she does it for
him. For someone like Swank Ivy, who welcomes solitude, asexual...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 187–213.
Published: 01 May 2021
... from the shelters one makes in the garden. Sometimes children make cabins from cardboard boxes; they place a sheet of fabric on top. The cabane is a little nest, a place to relax or a corner of solitude. Or rather, one hides, or wants to be alone, or even to hide in twos or threes.” 24 Her words...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 75–103.
Published: 01 September 2000
... surrounds himself with an audiovisual world rich with
texts, this very populated space is also an excruciatingly lonely
place. Indeed, “solitude” is a red thread in many of Godard’s
works,47 as he often reflects on how ultimately “history is made...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 92–111.
Published: 01 May 1992
.... It is a private public place, where men seek
solitude. (51)
Clearly, Denby touches on some of the same issues that I address in this
essay, though to slightly different effect. For one thing, while his account
recognizes the porn-theater context as a homosocial realm...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 95–123.
Published: 01 September 2020
... occurs when the cash dispenser does not respond to the couple s stolen credit card. An unrespon- Queer Film Settings 103 sive machine in a gas station is enough to mark both the end of the drifters breakthrough and the beginning of their breakdown until the complete immobility, isolation, and solitude...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 128–139.
Published: 01 May 1976
... are constantly destroyed, a solitude in a closed world, which
clings to the household work as to a life preserver an ultimate justifica-
tion."
In the late afternoon of the second day, a man visits Jeanne in the
apartment; the bedroom door closes between us and them. The routine
resumes after he leaves...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 102–131.
Published: 01 May 1994
... to achieve a
sense of unity, since all such institutions in the series eventually broke
down into individual components, in which the individual was finally,
ultimately, and unreconcilably alone. Molly Dodd’s inevitable solitude
precluded the family or community-as-family orientations of both...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 107–139.
Published: 01 December 2023
... authorship of self-reflexivity construct narrative and identity, respectively, “in relationships rather than in autonomy.” 34 For Sam, her artistic pursuit is symbolic of the demands of the performance of femininity as selflessness, but the performer herself often seems to yearn for solitude. 35...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., writing in the mid-twentieth century, suggested that “good
close-ups radiate a tender human attitude in the contemplation of
hidden things, a delicate solitude, a gentle bending over the inti-
macies of life-in-the-miniature, a warm sensibility.” The close-up,
180 • Camera Obscura
according...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 139–161.
Published: 01 September 1990
... at a painting
by Bacon is to look into a mirror, and to see there our own afflictions
and our fears of solitude, failure, humiliation, old age, death and of
nameless threatened catastrophes” (117 n.1).
Now let us compare the photograms 19, 18 and 1’9 with these remarks...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 95–119.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of meaning on pause,” 11 or that of Boyd McDonald's cruising of classic Hollywood film stills, for how “they can be studied in silence and solitude at length, and can offer a more detailed experience of actors and acting than do fast moving pictures. Sometimes stills reveal information that is hardly...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 131–159.
Published: 01 May 2010
... as the vanguard of new
ways of thinking about and living within control society.
Notes
1. Theresa Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social
Networks (New York: Peter Lang, 2008) 45, 26.
2. Victor Burgin, “Jenni’s Room: Exhibitionism and Solitude,”
Critical...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 33–59.
Published: 01 December 2021
... dispersion can perhaps even reach the dead. Makuti's tears do not let Mia die in anonymity. Travesti tears may have the power to disrupt the enforced amnesia that the social body experiences in relation to travesti loss and death. Mia's death does not have to be an experience of infinite solitude. Even...
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 110–136.
Published: 01 December 1986
... is at the
very source of his capacity to invent:
When I need solitude, I go to visit this sorceress who dispels all cares. Above
all, when the fire dragon of a discovery is beating his invisible wings within
my head, I come here where only she will hear me if I speak aloud. After...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2012
... seeds of strife, goading men to brawl
and to prey on women. As paradise unravels, Virtue retreats to the
solitude of her otherworldly mountaintop. Having completed his
poem, Thornton dozes off. He wakes to nd Purity nearby. Struck
by her resemblance to his imaginary Virtue, Thornton introduces...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 115–147.
Published: 01 December 2002
...-
servatism that encrypts its viewers in a kind of imaginary pri-
vacy—a neutral solitude that paradoxically feels, and seems,
shared—a reassuringly anonymous social experience that man-
ages anxieties around the homoerotics of spectatorship through
the sociality of laughter, which can be indulged even...
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