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Sex Out of Sync: Christmas on Earth 's and Couch 's Queer Sound Tracks

Lucas Hilderbrand
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2209916
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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Epistemology of the Answering Machine: Cher, Chaz, Mourning, and Some Trans Archives

Lilia Kilburn
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 1–37.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8085099
Published: 01 May 2020
... “Silence = Death” relies and yields a rethinking of media history and sound studies as they relate to queer lives. Copyright © 2020 Camera Obscura 2020 duration and identity queerness and queer theory sound and sonic technologies vocality and voice American popular music I visited Vito...
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Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupac's Live Performance at Coachella

Katherine Fusco
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 29–53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3078314
Published: 01 September 2015
... and archive, and death and the image. This essay traces the ghostliness of entertainers speaking from beyond the grave and the new interpretive problems that come to the fore when the performance is “live” but the performer isn't. Bringing together star discourse, media ontology, and sound studies...
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Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voices in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)

Xin Peng
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9786986
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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Choreographing Homosexual Desire in Philippe Vallois's Johan

David A. Gerstner
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2352176
Published: 01 December 2013
...David A. Gerstner This article presents a study of Philippe Vallois's 1976 gay film Johan: Mon été 75 , the only French film from the period that directly and explicitly represents gay male sexuality and its urban milieu, Paris. Johan tells the story of a filmmaker (played by Vallois) who intends...
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The Auto-Tuned Self: Modulating Voice and Gender in Digital Media Ecologies

Lisa Åkervall
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 65–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052802
Published: 01 September 2021
... Auto-Tune media history modulation sound studies voice Modulation is increasingly ubiquitous in contemporary life. Everywhere we look, from Facebook's individualized news feeds to Amazon's personalized shopping suggestions, we are witnessing the proliferation of digital traces deployed...
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Small Effects from Big Causes: The Dialogic Documentary Practice of Natalie Bookchin

Zoë Druick
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592466
Published: 01 September 2016
... a consideration of the sonic composition of the polyvocal and polyrhythmic digital fragments. Documentary studies’ piecemeal adoption of sound studies through the increas- ing consideration of voice, music, and ambient soundscapes has not been accompanied by a related interrogation of associated prac...
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Deanna Durbin and the Mismatched Voice

Jennifer Fleeger
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 69–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727464
Published: 01 December 2012
... and the Mismatched Voice • past thirty years has been expended amending the audiovisual bal- ance of screen studies, a process that has made us more aware of lm sound’s unnatural creation, but which has had the side effect of leveling the larger inequalities that crop up in the sound track...
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Pretty Gross: Dialectics of Desire and Disgust in the Reception of Pipilotti Rist

Emily Watlington
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 91–113.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9561437
Published: 01 May 2022
... between Mary Douglas’ Work on Dirt and Sound Studies Research,” Journal of Sonic Studies 14 (2017), https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/558896/558950 . 32. Portanova, “Rhythmic Parasites”; Sara Ahmed, “The Performativity of Disgust,” in The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh...
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“Cinema at Its Source”: Synchronizing Race and Sound in the Early Talkies

Alice Maurice
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 31–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-17-1_49-31
Published: 01 May 2002
...: vaudeville and minstrel shows. As Michael Rogin points out in his study of black- face performance, “The first talking picture [The Jazz Singer] went backward in order to go forward and enter the era of sound.”15 Rogin argues that The Jazz Singer (dir. Alan Crosland, US, 1927) and other Al Jolson...
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The Name above the (Sub)Title: Internationalism, Coproduction, and Polyglot European Art Cinema

Mark Betz
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 1–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-16-1_46-1
Published: 01 May 2001
... in a special “Notes and Queries” section, and their answer to the question “Why do most people who study movies prefer subtitles?” is typical of the discipline as a whole: “Dubbed voices usually have a bland ‘studio’ sound. Elimination...
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Mourning, Sound, and Vision: Jean-Luc Godard's JLG/JLG

Nora M. Alter
Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 75–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-15-2_44-75
Published: 01 September 2000
.... Autobiography implies the study of a life over time, the 03-Alter 74-103=30pgs 1/25/01 1:45 PM Page 91 Mourning, Sound, and Vision • 91 reordering and the retelling of a narrative of one’s life, situating it across...
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Schneemann Sounding: Embodied Sonic Systems

Melissa Ragona
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 151–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052886
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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Godard's Use of Sound

Alan Williams
Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 192–209.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3-4-2-3-1_8-9-10-192
Published: 01 December 1982
... of Christian Metz’s Language and Cinema (The Hague: Mouton, 1974). See my “Is Sound Recording Like a Language?” Yale French Studies, no. 60 (1980), pp. 51-66. See Collet. 208 6. “What I really want is for sound to be texturally uniform. If a picture sounds...
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Puppet Love: Documenting Ventriloquism in Nina Conti's Her Master's Voice

Sarah Kessler
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 61–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592576
Published: 01 September 2016
... and the visual ultimately collude to fool an audience. In the early 1980s, ventriloquism  as a metaphor was in vogue in Euro-­American cinema studies: both Rick Altman and Michel Chion use the term in their writings from this period to illuminate the effects of sound-­image synchronization and dubbing...
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Women Working

Christina Creveling
Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 128–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1-1_1-128
Published: 01 May 1976
... teaching Humanities and Women's classes at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1969. RlVERBODY-Made with Shelby Kennedy; 6 min.; B&W; 16 mm; sound. Fixed camera, progression of continuous lap dissolves: 87 nudes of all sexes, sizes, races, and ages, slowly become each other...
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Little Red Riding Hood Meets Freud in Lucrecia Martel's Salta Trilogy

Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 93–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2801529
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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Two or Three Things I Know about Her: Analysis of a Film by Godard

R.S. Hamilton
Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 216–222.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3-4-2-3-1_8-9-10-216
Published: 01 December 1982
..., Guzzetti’s meticulous rendering of both the sound and image-tracks permits the reader to reconstitute the film in an imaginary fashion, and his knowledgeable and imaginative commentary provides a basis for an understanding of the “system” underlying the film. Guzzetti’s study is comprised...
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Carol Flinn

Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 151–154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-151
Published: 01 December 1989
... to the sounds we hear- that there exist, in other words, male and female auditors (and different kinds of auditors within these groups). Some basic differences evidence themselves in a number of ways: in the stated preferences people have for musical forms (asempirical studies of radio...
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In the Twilight of Modernity and the Silent Film: Irie Takako in The Water Magician

Chika Kinoshita
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 91–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-20-3_60-91
Published: 01 December 2005
... different histories. First, I would like to draw attention to a history of the transition to sound in Japanese film culture in order to highlight the par- ticular temporality of aesthetics and technology that fostered The Water Magician. I will argue that the film was a late silent film...
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