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The Story of Untold Displacements: Buddhist-Muslim Intimacies and Visions of Ethnic Coexistence in a Thai Queer-Feminist Filmic Archive
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 163–193.
Published: 01 September 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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in Viola Liuzzo / Heather Heyer: Mediating the Antiracist White Female Martyr
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 4. Susan Bro, extract from ABC News story
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in Viola Liuzzo / Heather Heyer: Mediating the Antiracist White Female Martyr
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 5. Heather Heyer, extract from CBS News story
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Abigail Thorn, “Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story | Philosophy Tube ★,” Yo...
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in “This Is Not a Performance”: Coming-Out Videos, LGBTQ+ Microcelebrity, and the Tenuous Rise of New Queer YouTube
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 5. Abigail Thorn, “Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story | Philosophy Tube ★,” YouTube video, 30 January 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AITRzvm0Xtg
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Abigail Thorn, “Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story | Philosophy Tube ★,” Yo...
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in “This Is Not a Performance”: Coming-Out Videos, LGBTQ+ Microcelebrity, and the Tenuous Rise of New Queer YouTube
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 6. Abigail Thorn, “Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story | Philosophy Tube ★,” YouTube video, 30 January 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AITRzvm0Xtg
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The Story of Anna O.: A Study on Hysteria (Terrel Seltzer)
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 72–79.
Published: 01 September 1980
...Constance Penley © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 The Story of Anna 0.:A Study on Hysteria (Terrel Seltzer, 1979)
The Story of Anna 0.:
A Study on Hysteria
(Terrel Seltzer)
Constance Penley
“At the time of her falling ill [I 8 801, Fraulein Anna 0. was twenty-one
years old...
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Humanitarian Ethics and Documentary Politics
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 197–207.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Pooja Rangan; Brett Story; Paige Sarlin Scholar Pooja Rangan and filmmaker-scholars Brett Story and Paige Sarlin engage in a conversation about documentary theory and practice emerging from the questions posed by Rangan’s book Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (published by Duke...
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Stories
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 1992
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Faceblindness, Visual Pleasure, and Racial Recognition: Ethnicity and Technicity in Ted Chiang's “Liking What You See: A Documentary”
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 135–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Thomas Foster This essay analyzes a postcyberpunk science fiction story by Ted Chiang, an Asian American writer. The story speculates on the technological manipulation of visual perception through the direct modification of visual processing structures in the human brain. It focuses...
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Agnès Varda, Jane Birkin, and Kung-fu Master!
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 41–59.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Emma Wilson Abstract Kung-fu Master! ( Le petit amour , France, 1988) arises from a story by Jane Birkin, where an adult woman and a teenage boy fall in love. Birkin's story was meant to be realized as one of the dramatized sequences of Jane B. by Agnès V. ( Jane B. par Agnès V. , France, 1988...
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Three by Three: Lisa Cholodenko’s Attachment Trilogy
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 97–125.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Lee Wallace Lisa Cholodenko’s three films High Art (US, 1998), Laurel Canyon (US, 2002), and The Kids Are All Right (US, 2010) all tell the same story: a sexual and emotional ingenue arrives in a tightly circumscribed social world that both resembles and departs from a conventional family. At its...
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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
...Sam McBean Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel, Fun Home (2006), intricately weaves together the author's coming-out story with her family's history, particularly the story of her father's closeted queer sexuality and possible suicide. In its exploration of family history, queer desires...
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Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 141–171.
Published: 01 December 2023
... subject was coming into formation, using comic books of this moment to find the user figure and its stories. The DC Comics archive might not seem the most likely place to find answers to these concerns. But superhero origin stories are always about becoming user in late capitalist imaginaries. Superheroes...
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The Anthropocene as Cinematic View: Time, Matter, and Race in Blade Runner 2049
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Domietta Torlasco Abstract Taking Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 as a point of departure, this essay argues that cinema's stories of species survival at once hide and duplicate the racialization of matter that has marked the history of geology and, more recently, the discourse...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Jackie Stacey Sally Potter’s film Yes (UK/US, 2004) stages the political possibilities of cosmopolitanism through the aesthetics of a heterosexual love story whose failures reveal the limit points of such a vision. Read psychoanalytically, cosmopolitan aspirations share with love an idealizing...
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Creolizing Carmen: Reading Performance in María Antonia , Cuba's Overlooked Carmen Adaptation
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 157–191.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Nadia Sophia Sanko The story of Carmen (Mérimée 1845, Bizet 1875), the (in)famous Gypsy from Spain, is the second most adapted narrative in the history of world cinema with more than eighty global versions officially recognized to date; however, one significant and critical version has been...
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India's Daughter : It Is Time to Retire the Realist Rape Documentary
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 119–143.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Nandini Sikand Abstract This essay links the historical figure of Phoolan Devi, infamously known as the “Bandit Queen,” a vigilante and the subject of several articles, news stories, books, and a biopic, with the more recent figure of Jyoti Singh Pandey, the victim of a brutal gang rape in 2012...
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Imagining Television as a Vital Queer Medium: Riot
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Mardi Gras, Riot authenticates the relation of its story to historical events in part by giving its characters the same names as some of the more prominent activists organizing in the seventies. Yet what is most striking about Riot is the way in which it privileges another kind of historical agent...
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Skin Deep: Josephine Baker and the Colonial Fetish
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 35–79.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Anne Anlin Cheng This article tells the stories of architect Adolf Loos and cabaret/film icon Josephine Baker in order to trace the philosophic intimacy between modernist preoccupation with the nude surface and the staging of exposed, racialized skin in the early twentieth century. The racial...
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