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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2018
... situates queer as a structure of feeling that tends to be glimpsed not in its murkiness as a structure but rather through some of the forms in which it gets concretized. It comprehends limited cel animation as a fertile mode through whose motions we may test claims about queer structure’s precipitation...
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in Sharon Lockhart's Philosophy of the Casual: Toward an Eco-Cinema of Sociability
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 3. Children transform the buildings of Lodz into their own play structure. Podwórka (dir. Sharon Lockhart, US, 2009)
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 30–49.
Published: 01 September 1999
...Rey Chow Copyright © 1999 by Indiana University Press 1999
Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure In
Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together
Rey Chow
In one of the earliest discussions of poststrueturalism to appear in
English, "Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 75–102.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Robert Markley Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 Incubation Chamber by Jeffrey Westover, 1997. Courtesy of the artist.
Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the
Paranoid Structure of History
Robert Markley
At the beginning of every episode, viewers...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
... are happening on two interconnected fronts. Directors otherwise marginalized within the larger film industry are refiguring narrative conventions by not only allowing for a multiplicity of experiences and perspectives among characters and story lines, but also mobilizing their storytelling structure...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 39–67.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Chris Dumas The problem of the “it was all a dream” structure is considered, particularly in reference to its appearance in the year 1953. This article compares three films featuring the dream structure — Robot Monster (dir. Phil Tucker, US), The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (dir. Roy Rowland, US...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 97–129.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Scott Balcerzak Known as the Sons of the Desert, the official Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appreciation society is unique in that its very structures lampoon the rank-and-file maleness promoted by “legitimate” fraternal orders such as the Freemasons. To understand the comedy duo's lasting cultural...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
... relations—particularly in its depiction of ballroom culture and the work house mothers do to make chosen families—usefully reorients viewers’ attention away from dominant historiography's pathologizing gestures. Yet simultaneously, this push for the positive threatens to obscure the structural neglect...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Mitch and Cam, has raised the hackles of audiences who see in it a whitewashing of queer life and queer desire. A strain of television criticism posits a conservatism inherent to the narrative structures of the sitcom, and this dynamic would in some measure account for the tension between the program’s...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 197–207.
Published: 01 September 2018
... a documentary ethic of emergency (which draws on material forms like immediations that are ready at hand but obscure the path to social change) and a documentary politics of urgency and necessity (which maps the social structures, forces, and institutions that perpetuate structural inequality). Copyright ©...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2008
... explores Almodóvar's narrative style through a close analysis of the deployment of coincidence as a device in Talk to Her , a film structured by coincidental meetings and events. Tracing Almodóvar's treatment of coincidence allows us to evaluate and appreciate the classical echoes of his narrative...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 149–175.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Tumblr, which was prominent between 2007 and 2018 both for its chaotic and confusing “rhizomatic” structure, as well as its popularity with marginalized users and fan communities. This article uses the One Direction fandom as a lens through which to examine the affordances of Tumblr as a platform...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 147–155.
Published: 01 December 2018
... women-driven initiatives that offer responses to current industrial practices: Women in Film and Television Germany (WIFTG), Pro Quote Film (PQF), and the grassroots organization Into the Wild Mentoring (ITW). Their approaches to dealing with sexism and structural inequalities continue...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
Published: 01 September 2017
... surrounding these films rather than on their structure and the radical politics of the gaze they enact. Fat Girl depicts shocking and violent material as a means of critiquing the underlying structural violence that the director believes determines gendered power relations. Breillat's films have been...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 137–147.
Published: 01 December 2012
... mission, to examine the “current state of experimental film and media on an international” scale. A number of explicit changes occurred between 1989 and 2010 regarding the material conditions of experimental media — physical, structural, institutional, and economic. The more recent congress examined...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
Published: 01 September 2009
... qualities of countercinema. These practices draw on disparate value systems, but both reject decorative composition. Likewise, while feminist and queer theories have often valued spectacle and surface, a structuring iconophobia can still underwrite even radical accounts of representation. By tracing...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 41–71.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., and so the Mizrahi woman is destined to repeat the trauma over and over again. The Mizrahi mother's trauma is also transferred to and reproduced in her daughter. At first, the daughter does not acknowledge the socially structured nature of her mother's trauma and involuntarily and unconsciously repeats...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
Published: 01 September 2013
... (US, 1964), which is typically shown silently. These films are queer in that they present a series of erotic encounters that vary in gender, sexuality, and number; significantly, these works are also nonsynchronous or silent in their image-sound relations. They are recombinant in their structure...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of social trauma structuring most haunted real estate films than by the free-floating anxieties attendant upon the financialization of postindustrial economies and exacerbated by the Great Recession. It theorizes that the franchise is symptomatic of a broader cultural exploration of an emergent recessionary...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
...–), this article demonstrates how the program's interest in staging the excess of racialized gender is structured through a white racial imaginary, which is contested by cast members in each season's reunion episode. The article ends with a consideration of the way in which queer of color camp affectively...
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