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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
... Art
“Cinema at Its Source”:
Synchronizing Race and Sound
in the Early Talkies
Alice Maurice
One of MGM’s publicity photos for King Vidor’s Hallelujah! (US,
1929) features two of its stars, Victoria Spivey and Daniel Haynes,
looking at a piece of the movie’s soundtrack. Entitled...
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Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and Serial Drama, 1946–1970
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 203–225.
Published: 01 January 1988
... Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Da llas
The Danny Thomas Show
My Friend Irma
Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and
Serial Drama, 1946-1970
UCLA Film and Television Archive: Dan Einstein and Nina Leibman...
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in The Auto-Tuned Self: Modulating Voice and Gender in Digital Media Ecologies
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 5. Kempelen's speaking automaton. Source: Wolfgang Von Kempelen, Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache nebst Beschreibung seiner sprechenden Maschine (Vienna: Degen, 1791). Courtesy of OHSU Digital Collections
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Made in Movieland: Imitation, Agency, and Girl Movie Fandom in the 1910s
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 129–165.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... Interlacing early twentieth-century psychological literature, sociological studies, and materials published in film fan magazines, industry trade publications, and general newspapers with girls' own fan letters and photographs, the author maps the ways in which imitation became a source of agency and pleasure...
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Mothers and Daughters: Abjection and the Monstrous-Feminine in Japan's Dark Water and South Korea's A Tale of Two Sisters
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... The female protagonists in these films are, accordingly, associated with Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection (in particular, the construction of the maternal figure as abject through the imagery of parturition and the primal scene) and depicted in various guises as the monstrous-feminine, a potent source...
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Putting Things to the Test: Reconsidering Portrait of Jason
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2011
... the film's critical test of realism — both cinematic and identitarian. This essay argues that failure to achieve recognition under the normative presumptions that underlie our understanding of formations of both nonfiction and race/sexuality is arguably the source of the film's most productive tension...
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Seeing in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2013
... thus draws out the ways in which Bechdel represents the visual field as a source of both restriction and queer pleasure, the family as a site of both normalizing and queer looks, and the inevitable partiality of what she is able to see. Sam McBean recently completed her PhD in the English...
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Photography Consists of Collaboration: Susan Meiselas, Wendy Ewald, and Ariella Azoulay
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 187–201.
Published: 01 May 2016
... sources, including police archives, documentation of political movements like the suffragist movement, communal activism, art projects, and so on. Ariella Azoulay is a professor of modern culture and media and comparative literature at Brown University. Her recent books include From Palestine...
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Inanimism: Nymphomaniac , Under the Skin , and Capitalist Late Style
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 41–67.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... This fantasy reflects a fear that the technologies we use to store data about and images of ourselves have effectively become more exhaustive and reliable sources of self-knowledge than our embodied presence. Copyright © 2018 Camera Obscura 2018 new media Jonathan Glazer Under the Skin inanimism...
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Sentimental Activism as Queer-Feminist Documentary Practice; or, How to Make Love in a Room Full of People
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 41–69.
Published: 01 September 2019
... deploys a sentimental lexicon of rights and recognition for transformative ends: to center queer female migrant workers as historical protagonists in struggles for social justice and transformation and as an inspirational source for radical aesthetics. Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019 affect...
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Opening Statements: Theme Singing and Shifting Paradigms for Voicing Feminine Subjectivities as Television Music
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 157–167.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., to identify an emerging pattern within contemporary television production of shifting the tonal and thematic properties of theme singing onto licensing by dispensing with original theme music altogether while potentially amplifying more women’s voices as source music. Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019...
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Whatever Happened to Janet Wood? Women Story Editors in 1950s Television
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 127–155.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Annie Berke This article places 1950s women story editors in television in the context of the studio system and explains the particular labor of the story and script editors in film and TV. It examines the extant records and archival sources (including newspapers, industry trade publications...
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Damsels Who Distress: Gender and the Acousmatic Voice in Video Games
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 63–93.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., nonplayer characters, framing devices, or divinities, players regularly hear voices without seeing their source. While many games leave voices off-screen for reasons of technical and economic constraint, developers may restrict voices in this manner for other reasons as well—or at least with other...
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Maria Hirszbein: An (In)visible Figure of Polish Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 61–83.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to social issues. In reconstructing Hirszbein's professional biography, the text combines different sources such as press reports, film reviews, photographs from the collection of the Polish National Film Archive (FINA), and data collected by the Institute of Jewish History in Warsaw. Figure 3. Group...
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Floating Roots: Agnès Varda's Uncle Yanco
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 9–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Homay King Abstract This article traces one source of Agnès Varda's artistic inspiration to Jean “Yanco” Varda, the subject of her 1967 short film Uncle Yanco (US/France). Jean Varda was a peripatetic artist who lived on a houseboat and was part of a bohemian circle that included Henry Miller...
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She Listened: Vardian Self-Portraiture and Auto-Refrains of Sea, Wind, and Sand
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 61–85.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... In line with Varda's lifelong commitment to new forms of making visible the invisible, and her embrace of a sea as a groundless source of intersubjective relations, limits transform via her works into reflective, dissolving surfaces. A doubling of the personal and cosmic—that movement that so singularizes...
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The Perverted Ancestry of the Antiheroine: Bad Mothers and Unruly Daughters in Sharp Objects and Mare of Easttown
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 63–93.
Published: 01 May 2024
... that is monstrous and devouring; and in Mare of Easttown , as a source of reconciliation and healing through a redemptive vision of the maternal. Both series confront the idea that the antiheroine's moral failings are a result of bad mothering, a familiar patriarchal trope that is simultaneously challenged...
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Index to Camera Obscura/16, 17, 18 (volume 6)
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 157–159.
Published: 01 September 1988
... Xiaolian. No.18; pp. 26-31.
Interview with Hu MeL No.18; pp. 32-41.
Berry, Sarah
Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and Serial Drama, 1946•
1970: Museum of Broadcasting (New York). No.16; pp. 205-225.
Bukatman, Scott
Paralysis in Motion: Jerry Lewis's Life as a Man. No.17; pp. 195-205...
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Xala , Ousmane Sembene (1974): The Carapace That Failed
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 48–70.
Published: 01 May 1993
..., on the one hand, was the source of an underestimation on
the other, blocking “natural reason” and “rational market activity. ”
At the same time, the fetisso became deeply imbricated in commercial
relations. It was the practice to guarantee transactions by getting
Africans to take “fetish oaths...
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An Editing Room of One's Own: Vidding as Women's Work
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 123–130.
Published: 01 September 2011
... videos, in which a filmmaker cre-
ates images to illustrate a song, vidders use music to interpret a
visual source; in other words, the song tells the spectator how to
understand the montage the vidder has constructed. Vids are
therefore a form of inkind media criticism...
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