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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Patrick Flanery Abstract This article considers how The Ice Storm (dir. Ang Lee, US, 1997) reframes the politics of Rick Moody's novel of the same name and works via a network of symbols to align character Elena Hood (Joan Allen) with Hillary Clinton, suggesting an analogy between the scandals...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 8. In fantasy, Marina (Daniela Vega) struggles against the storm. A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2017) More
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1. Joan Allen as Elena Hood, caught shoplifting in her federal eagle cardigan. The Ice Storm (dir. Ang Lee, US, 1997) More
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Figure 2. Sigourney Weaver as Janey Carver, admonishing Sandy (Adam Hann-Byrd) to play with the whip rather than explosives. The Ice Storm (dir. Ang Lee, US, 1997) More
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Figure 3. Kevin Kline and Cristina Ricci as Ben and Wendy Hood moments before Ben removes Wendy from the wetness of the path. The Ice Storm (dir. Ang Lee, US, 1997) More
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Figure 4. Elijah Wood and Jamey Sheridan as Mikey and Jim Carver; accidental death is rendered as punishment for the sins of the parents and wider community. The Ice Storm (dir. Ang Lee, US, 1997) More
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 189–215.
Published: 01 May 2002
... about the weather and the roads, as this movie devoted to storm chasers in the Oklahoma Tornado Alley does, is polite but deceitful. In the Midwest, where Twister is set, manners no doubt differ from those in Austen’s Eng- land, but polite familiarity still depends on talk of weather and roads...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 153–156.
Published: 01 December 2006
... with the work of Menken in the 1950s and would surely include the work of Joyce Wieland, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono, Barbara Rubin, and Storm de Hirsch, in addition to those mentioned earlier. While the majority of the films that still exist remain unpreserved and uncataloged, some of them...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 63–93.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of Sigmund Freud, Volume XVII (1917–1919): An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works , ed. and trans. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1981), 15. 94. “Sore Must Be the Storm,” Mare of Easttown . 43. Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People (New York: The Modern Library, 1968), 3. 44...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 90–129.
Published: 01 January 1990
... they are called upon to rescue her: “The story to date: Helen Holmes prevents collision of train carrying her father and Storm, saves Storm from death on burning train; recovers accidental duplicate map of railroad cut-off, averting withdrawal of financial support...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 125–138.
Published: 01 September 1990
... might gain passage; perceptual discovery; moments of abandonment and physical pain were all to bear upon “scripting” the walk. Even the anecdotal seemed to ripple the text: It was nearing dusk. Having completed the last walk, we were preparing to leave the island when a late fall storm...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 24–53.
Published: 01 January 1989
..., depicted as a mass uprising appropriated by the bourgeoisie, to the bloody clashes between Bolsheviks and members of the bourgeoisie that resulted, finally, in the success of the Bolshevik revolution. The Bolshevik victory climaxes in the storming of the Winter Palace, where...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 157–188.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 8. In fantasy, Marina (Daniela Vega) struggles against the storm. A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2017) ...
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 96–123.
Published: 01 September 1999
...?" roars Hartman, likewise clad only in his underwear, as he storms in on this scene. "What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?" he demands of Pyle after Joker has in• formed him that Pyle is brandishing a live weapon. Pyle's automatic response is to shoot his commanding officer dead. Pyle next...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2017
... tend to be the most common, involve one character announcing that they need to leave before walking away. Negative endings include yelling, storming off, and even throwing coffee in the other’s face. Positive endings involve the characters deciding to continue their conversation over food...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 147–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and a business model that weathers all these technological storms. It is the thing I love the most about WMM. When we see a film that tackles a difficult political issue — like Rachel  by Simone Bit- ton (France/Belgium, 2009) — in a formally inventive and impor- tant way, I get excited. That being said...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 161–171.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., the Dominican consul stormed out of the screening in protest.3 Representatives of the sugar industry in the DR and the US condemned the film, and some journalists were allegedly bribed by the Dominican Consulate General to write negative reviews of the film.4 The film’s director...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 145–153.
Published: 01 September 2012
... with great speed and much invective, but their arguments and adjectives also tend to be circular. For instance, producer Robert Lantos, no stranger to spin, has called us in various op- eds and full- page ads a ring of opportunists, hypocrites, fascists, censors, storm troopers, apartheid supporters...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 83–111.
Published: 01 December 2001
... with a visit shortly after she returns to her native village. He comes to her cabin in the midst of a storm, and she gives him one of her Deco furs to wear for warmth. Though he is now engaged to a “suitable” woman, he is again overtaken with Leonora’s beauty and professes his undying love. She cynically...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 197–227.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., her screen persona grew even younger, until she was, for all intents and purposes, a child impersonator. In 1914, an industry trade magazine, The Bioscope, pub- lished a review of the Pickford box office hit, Tess of the Storm Coun- Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic...