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Adventures of Goldilocks: Spectatorship, Consumerism and Public Life
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 50–72.
Published: 01 January 1990
...Miriam Hansen Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990
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...
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Women in a Widening Frame: (Cross-)Cultural Projection, Spectatorship, and Iranian Cinema
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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...
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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Transnational Feminist Spectatorship and Farida Benlyazid's A Door to the Sky
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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...
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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...
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Cinemactivism: Film Reform, Spectatorship, and the Cleveland Cinema Club
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 33–65.
Published: 01 December 2013
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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...
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(TV) Junkies in Need of an Intervention : On Addictive Spectatorship and Recovery Television
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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...
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“You're my friend”: River's Edge and Social Spectatorship
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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...
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“All Your Faves Are Problematic”: The Performative Spectatorship of Drunk Feminist Films
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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...
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Watching Women: Surveillance and Spectatorship in Early Science Fiction Television
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 35–61.
Published: 01 May 2024
... a closer look at early television surveillance narratives, this article demonstrates how women's television spectatorship has always entailed a complex negotiation of imposed looking relations that paradoxically attempt to deny the female gaze even as they depend on it. Understanding this historical...
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The Black Visual Experience: Hendrix, Porn, and Authenticity
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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...
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“Dated Sexuality”: Anna Biller's Viva and the Retrospective Life of Sexploitation Cinema
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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...
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Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification
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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...
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Judith Mayne
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 230–234.
Published: 01 December 1989
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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...
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Giuliana Bruno
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 103–107.
Published: 01 December 1989
... (although
writing in a foreign language is itself an issue) 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...
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Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 155–160.
Published: 01 December 1989
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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...
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The Image (and the) Movement: An Overview of Italian Feminist Research
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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...
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Marcia Butzel
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 111–115.
Published: 01 December 1989
... challenging to the aesthetic hierarchy which is par-
adoxically maintained by much “reading against the grain.”
Film Studies
University of Warwick
Marcia Butzel
My interest in theories of female spectatorship...
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“Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn?” Film as a Vehicle of Sensual Education
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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. Camera Obscura 2010 Laura Horak is a PhD candidate...
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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
.... 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...
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Gaylyn Studlar
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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...
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