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“If I Could Speak With Your Sound”: Fan Music, Textual Proximity, and Liminal Identification
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 148–175.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Henry Jenkins Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990
“If I Could Speak With Your Sound”: Fan Music,
Textual Proximity, and Liminal Identification
Henry Jenkins
I was with the Midwest crowd
Who stood in line...
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Godard's Use of Sound
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 192–209.
Published: 01 December 1982
...Alan Williams Copyright © 1982 by Camera Obscura 1982
Godard’s Use of Sound
Alan Williams
The following notes are intended to provoke discussion of Godard’s
sound-tracks, their relations to his image-tracks, and the range of
options and interests that these display...
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Mourning, Sound, and Vision: Jean-Luc Godard's JLG/JLG
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 75–103.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and editing a volume, Sound Matters , with Lutz Koepnick. 03-Alter 74-103=30pgs 1/25/01 1:45 PM Page 74
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Mourning, Sound, and Vision:
Jean-Luc Godard’s JLG/JLG...
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“Cinema at Its Source”: Synchronizing Race and Sound in the Early Talkies
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 31–71.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of A Healthy Baby Girl (1996) and the Academy Award-winning documentary Defending Our Lives (1993). “Pictures of their Voices”: Victoria Spivey and
Daniel Haynes look at a sound track of their voices in
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Hallelujah! [original text of
studio credit]. Courtesy Museum of Modern...
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Sex Out of Sync: Christmas on Earth 's and Couch 's Queer Sound Tracks
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Lucas Hilderbrand This essay draws from queer theory and sound studies in an analysis of two sexually explicit 1960s underground films that refused synchronization: Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth (US, 1963), which is intended to be screened with a live radio sound track, and Andy Warhol's Couch...
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Reassemblage : Sketch of Sound Track
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 104–111.
Published: 01 September 1985
...Trinh T. Minh-ha Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985
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Sketch of Sound Track
Masic: Joola
Scarcely twenty years were enough to make two billion people define
themselves as underdeveloped
I do not intend to speak about
Just speak near by
The Casamance...
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. Carolee Schneemann, Glass Environment for Sound and Motion , the Living Theatre, New York (1962). From left: Malcolm Goldstein, Yvonne Rainer, and Andre Cadet. Photograph: Steve Schapiro. Courtesy of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation; P•P•O•W, New York; Galerie Lelong, New York
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Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 210–215.
Published: 01 December 1982
...Jacques Aumont; D.N. Rodowick Colin MacCabe, with Mick Eaton and Laura Mulvey, Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. BFI Cinema Series. Copyright © 1982 by Camera Obscura 1982
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Schneemann Sounding: Embodied Sonic Systems
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 151–163.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Melissa Ragona Abstract This essay examines the central position the medium of sound played in the work of the artist Carolee Schneemann (US, 1939–2019). By exploring a few key early works such as Glass Environment for Sound and Motion (1962), Chromelodeon (1963), and Noise Bodies (1965), it traces...
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Puppet Love: Documenting Ventriloquism in Nina Conti's Her Master's Voice
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to voiceless—or underrepresented—persons or things. This article contends that the material practice of ventriloquism has more to offer to documentary cinema than a convenient (and typically negative) metaphor for the deceptive synchrony of sound and image or the embattled relation between subject and object...
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Let Them Wear Manolos: Fashion, Walter Benjamin, and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and provides a post-punk sound track and contemporary-sounding dialogue as it playfully captures the experience of modern feminine adolescence. However, the film's modernity lies more interestingly in the way in which its self-conscious reinterpretation of linear history makes it a successful expression...
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Introduction: Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019)
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 126–127.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Kenneth White Abstract This is an introduction to a dossier on the work and life of Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019). Schneemann was celebrated in a memorial service at Judson Memorial Church in New York. The service included Malcolm Goldstein's improvisational performance on violin titled Soundings...
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Thoughts on Making Films with Barbara Hammer
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 129–135.
Published: 01 December 2021
... material from Hammer's 1998 artist residency in a Cape Cod shack without running water or electricity. While there, she shot film, recorded sounds, and kept a journal. In 2018, Hammer began her process of dying by revisiting her personal archive. She gave all of her images, sounds, and writing from...
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Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Xin Peng Abstract This article provides a comparative study of Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa—the two most iconic stars of Asian descent of American cinema's silent era—by examining the reception history around their rare collaboration, the early sound film and yellow peril thriller Daughter...
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A Problem of Fit : Athina Rachel Tsangari and Greek “Weird Wave” Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 59–89.
Published: 01 September 2022
... her later, supposedly Weird Wave films. The conceptual capaciousness of the term fit , as both a film title and a concept, refracts across Tsangari's films and career at large. This article exploits wordplay around fit as a technical standard of sound and image cohesion (how image and sound fit...
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Humanity Adrift: Race, Materiality, and Allegory in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 73–109.
Published: 01 December 2009
.... Cuarón's film deploys certain cinematic strategies to represent difference: from disjunctures between sound and image and a cinematic obsession with lingering on “incidental” details that lends them allegorical significance to an extended chase sequence. The place of race and biopolitics in this film...
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Deanna Durbin and the Mismatched Voice
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 69–98.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Jennifer Fleeger This article argues that each new development in sound technology is accompanied by a mismatched woman — a figure with a voice that fails to gel with the image of her body. Because they are famous for having singing voices that startle listeners with their beauty and dexterity...
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Choreographing Homosexual Desire in Philippe Vallois's Johan
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., pornography) with New Wave cinematic aesthetics (jump cuts, an interrupted sound track, a revealed apparatus). It is a remarkable film for its sexual forthrightness as well as the value Vallois places on cinematic form. Johan is a dynamic text particularly when read through the contemporaneous political...
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Little Red Riding Hood Meets Freud in Lucrecia Martel's Salta Trilogy
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 93–115.
Published: 01 December 2014
... nonlinearity over causality, sound over sight, and suspense over closure. This article argues that Martel's trilogy of life in the province of Salta, Argentina, examines the country's incomplete transition to democracy from the perspective of strong, intelligent, and socially privileged female protagonists who...
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Pop, Collaboration, Utopia: Bruce Conner's BREAKAWAY in 1960s Los Angeles
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2015
... female performer and, in some cases, a pop music sound track; these films include COSMIC RAY (1961), VIVIAN (1964), EASTER MORNING RAGA (1966), and THE WHITE ROSE (1967). This essay examines a work by Conner that combines all of these elements, 1966's BREAKAWAY, an experimental dance film he made...
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