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NOW , Chantal Akerman’s Last Work

Babette Mangolte
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 67–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7264094
Published: 01 May 2019
... as sensations. Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019 Chantal Akerman spectatorship and installation creative concept opposing sound and image immersive work global culture ...
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The Image (and the) Movement: An Overview of Italian Feminist Research

Giuliana Bruno
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 28–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-28
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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The Poetics of Addiction: Stardom, “Feminized” Spectatorship, and Interregional Business Relations in the Twilight Series

Victor Fan
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1533439
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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E. Ann Kaplan

Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 194–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-194
Published: 01 December 1989
... and Linda Williams. There are many others (too numerous to list) writing on general issues of spectatorship or sexual difference and subjectivity whose work I find very important. In the area of television theory and criticism, there are again numerous critics whose analyses...
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Mulvey's Legacy

Yvonne Rainer
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 167–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2006-018
Published: 01 December 2006
... for the White Oak Dance Project. Her most recent media project, a video installation for a traveling solo gallery exhibition, contained dance and texts dealing with art and politics during the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her most recent dance was AG Indexical, with a Little Help from H. M...
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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
... erotic, and ambitious without being threatening.” 53 Rist would later push the passivity of spectatorship further, creating installations that require the viewer to lie down in order to watch the work, as in her 2016 installation 4th Floor to Mildness from the Mildness Family , in which a dozen or so...
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“Dated Sexuality”: Anna Biller's Viva and the Retrospective Life of Sexploitation Cinema

Elena Gorfinkel
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 95–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1415443
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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Temptations of Pleasure: Nickelodeons, Amusement Parks, and the Sights of Female Sexuality

Lauren Rabinovitz
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 70–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-2_23-70
Published: 01 May 1990
... subjects . . . the modalities of identification bear directly on the process of spectatorship, that is to say, the ways in which the subjectivity of the spectator is engaged in the process of viewing, understanding (making 73 sense of), or even seeing the film How, then, did the venues...
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Julie Andrews Made Me Gay

Brett Farmer
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 144–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-007
Published: 01 September 2007
...Brett Farmer Camera Obscura 2007 Brett Farmer is a senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships (2000). Julie Andrews Made Me Gay Brett Farmer Of the many female...
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Preface: Bringing Race and Media Technologies into Focus

Lynne Joyrich
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 1–5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2008-012
Published: 01 May 2009
... in which we think, experience, and enact race are tied to our media forms, just as race (and gender, generation, sexuality, class, nation) mediates our interpretations and uses of these forms in turn. From the differences inscribed in literature and installed through literacy...
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Passion, Commitment, Compassion: Les Justes au Panthéon by Agnès Varda

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 87–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838553
Published: 01 May 2021
..., “Varda: The Gleaner and the Just,” in Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema , ed. Marcelline Block (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), 214–25. 7. Hommage aux Justes de France , program for the Les Justes au Panthéon installation in Avignon, 7–27 July 2007...
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Mika Rottenberg's Productive Bodies

Hsuan L. Hsu
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 41–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-002
Published: 01 September 2010
...Hsuan L. Hsu Mike Rottenberg's video installations and works in other media depict quirky scenarios of production in which women in constrained factory spaces use stationary bikes, bodily fluids, and simple tools to fabricate products ranging from scented towelettes to fake maraschino cherries...
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Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly

Ben Singer
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 90–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-1_22-90
Published: 01 January 1990
...Ben Singer Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly Ben Singer Few film genres so historically anomalous, and so pertinent to con- temporary discussions of gender and spectatorship, have...
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She Listened: Vardian Self-Portraiture and Auto-Refrains of Sea, Wind, and Sand

Nadine Boljkovac
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 61–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838541
Published: 01 May 2021
... and piano play. In rhythm with the flows of Varda's memory, Demy's face fades as the next cut discovers Varda's frame passing through, at “low tide,” the factory curtain of heavy plastic slats from her installation Le Passage du Gois (France, 2006, L’île et elle exhibition), which re-creates the passage...
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From This Body to Yours: Porn, Affect, and Performance Art Documentation

Adair Rounthwaite
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 63–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1415434
Published: 01 December 2011
... in Representations (2010) and in the Journal of Visual Culture (2008). © 2011 by Camera Obscura 2011 Diane Borsato, Three Performances (after Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovi ´c , and Bonnie Sherk) (2008), three-­channel digital video installation. Details of  Joseph Beuys reenactment. © Diane Borsato...
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Varda's Third Life

Dominique Bluher
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 187–213.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838601
Published: 01 May 2021
... installations, numerous smaller ones, and new photographic works, which have been shown in over twenty solo exhibitions and countless group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and art biennials all over the world. This article gives an overview of her installation art and examines how Varda's installations take...
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Feminist Film in the Gallery: If 6 Was 9

Alison Butler
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-20-1_58-1
Published: 01 May 2005
... Screen . If 6 Was 9 (dir. Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Finland, 1995). Copyright Crystal Eye Ltd., Helsinki Feminist Film in the Gallery: If 6 Was 9 Alison Butler Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s fi lms and DVD installations have been described by the artist herself and others as “human dramas,” although...
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See Me Now

Bridget R. Cooks
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 66–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-12-3_36-66
Published: 01 September 1995
...- tively simple divisions by articulating the stakes invested in the images. In developing my own photography and installation projects, I have tried to explore the importance of images of Black Americans by interrogating the meaning that these images make. A similar process inflects...
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Memory Resurrected in HD: Collective Digital Video Filmmaking as Production of Counterhistory in the Folk Memory Project

Jinying Li
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 175–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454485
Published: 01 May 2016
... on the others. Children’s Village  is the third installment in the series and the most positive in tone because it centers on children, mostly girls. Zou organized local girls and had them gather infor- mation about those who died during the Great Famine as well as collect donations to build a memorial...
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Tongue Twisters: The Travelogue Videos of Ming-Yuen S. Ma

Peter X Feng
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 69–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1533448
Published: 01 May 2012
... and installation art also emerging in the s) allowed women and others — until then marginalized by the mainstream — to have an equal voice. Through these new genres they could proclaim a place for themselves in the art world that could not be achieved through the Western, male- dominated eld of painting...
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