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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 250–273.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Vicky Lebeau Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991
“You’re my friend”: River’s Edge and
Social Spectatorship
Vicky Lebeuu
What happens if a “real event” that generates anxiety about looking
as a threat to the social bond is turned into cinema...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 71–99.
Published: 01 May 2015
... is instrumental to theorizing addictive spectatorship, a concept that takes seriously the notion that television may act affectively as a drug. Recovery television, it claims, helps viewers negotiate their own relationship to television consumption. Furthermore, such a negotiation augments notions of neoliberal...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 1–33.
Published: 01 September 2005
...:
(Cross-)Cultural Projection,
Spectatorship, and Iranian Cinema
Lindsey Moore
This article addresses the entwined issues of gendered and cul-
tural representation in contemporary Iranian cinema. One of the
remarkable features of recent Iranian film is its allegorical use of
gendered...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 107–137.
Published: 01 September 2009
...:
Transnational Feminist
Spectatorship and Farida
Benlyazid’s A Door to the Sky
Suzanne Gauch
Moroccan director Farida Benlyazid’s first feature film, A Door to
the Sky (Ba¯b as-sama¯’ maftu¯h., Morocco, 1988), follows Nadia (Zakia
Tahiri), a young Franco-Moroccan photographer initially por...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 50–72.
Published: 01 January 1990
...Miriam Hansen
Adventures of Goldilocks: Spectatorship,
Consumerism and Public Life
Miriam Hansen
In the weeks following Valentino’s death in August 1926, millions of
American women went to see The Son of the Sheik, the star’s last and
most perverse film. In one of the early...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Entertainment/
Photofest
The Poetics of Addiction:
Stardom, “Feminized”
Spectatorship, and Interregional
Business Relations in the
Twilight Series
Victor Fan
I learned about Twilight as a novel when I taught eighth graders at
a tutorial school. After its publication on October...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 33–65.
Published: 01 December 2013
....
Courtesy Western Reserve Historical Society
Cinemactivism:
Film Reform, Spectatorship, and
the Cleveland Cinema Club
John G. Nichols
In 1923, members of the Cleveland Cinema Club (CCC) visited
with brothers William C. de Mille and Cecil B. DeMille1 on the
set of Only 38 (dir...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 149–159.
Published: 01 September 2022
... audience's critical engagement with the Hollywood narrative projected on-screen. The performative modes of spectatorship at DFF screenings encourages feminist viewers to locate the counterknowledge made available by their favorite problematic movies. 5 The interventions opened up in the DFF's hybrid...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 65–93.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Ariane Cruz Reading Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape and the dialogue surrounding it as a most fecund site for the collaborative laboring of black male sexuality, authenticity, and spectatorship, this article reveals the constitutive relationship between authenticity and spectatorship in the production...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 113–143.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Hiram Perez Building on feminist and queer scholarship on the relationship of film spectatorship to subjectivity, this essay conjectures subaltern spectatorships of the two US film adaptations of Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel Imitation of Life as a means of tracing the impossibly entangled discourses...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 95–135.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of her own spectatorship of the sexploitation cinema represents a way of imagining female spectatorship as a form of cinephile wandering through the historical frame — and through a cathexis on the world of forgotten bodies and discarded objects, both material and cinematic. Elena Gorfinkel...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 230–234.
Published: 01 December 1989
...
Even though I’m mistrustful of “privileged hindsight narratives” that
create meaningful and coherent wholes out of pieces that seemed more
like fragments at the time, this questionnaire has set me to thinking
about the development of female spectatorship (in my own work...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 103–107.
Published: 01 December 1989
...) but of positioning within
a cultural framework. Writing feminist criticism on female spectator-
ship in Italy and in the USA is not the same thing.
Questions such as female spectatorship arise, are formed, developed
and defined within a specific cultural framework, at particular his-
torical junctures...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 155–160.
Published: 01 December 1989
...
of the questionnaire respondent: in both cases we take personal ex-
perience as our starting point and generalize from there toward a
theory. Theories of female spectatorship place experience somewhere
near the center, elaborating a general model for gendered identification
in the cinema from the actual site...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 28–39.
Published: 01 December 1989
... of sexual difference is elaborated are the Libreria delle Donne
in Milan and the Virginia Woolf Center in R0me.l Also, in general,
feminist magazines are conceived and function as collective research
on theoreticaUpolitica1 issues.
Questions such as female spectatorship are raised and circulate...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 75–117.
Published: 01 September 2010
... in Hollywood, she exploited the new possibilities of mass media—films, paperbacks, newspapers, and magazines—to simultaneously promote herself and her sexual agenda. Furthermore, she used her films to eroticize cinematic structures of spectatorship. Laura Horak is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... And so the designation of “screen test” engenders an identity for the film that situates its formal indeterminancy as its most critical feature. This analysis of Portrait of Jason necessarily examines the particular intersections of documentary cinema, gender/sexuality, spectatorship, and textual...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 111–115.
Published: 01 December 1989
... maintained by much “reading against the grain.”
Film Studies
University of Warwick
Marcia Butzel
My interest in theories of female spectatorship has developed since I
wrote a dissertation chapter on concepts...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 300–304.
Published: 01 December 1989
..., my ex-
perience with feminist film theory has been analogous to the situation
Balmary describes. During graduate school in the early eighties, I
became extremely dissatisfied with the prevailing formulations of fe- 301
male representation and male spectatorship, derived...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 199–204.
Published: 01 December 1989
...-cultural, female-spectator-
ship processes, hitherto much neglected; d) the politics of spectatorship,
including addressing the need for alternate female and minority spec-
tator spaces.
The Humanities Institute
State University of New...
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