...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...

...Sandy Flitterman-Lewis Camera Obscura 2006 Sandy Flitterman-Lewis is an associate professor in the English department at Rutgers University, where she teaches courses in cinema studies, comparative literature, and women's studies. She was one of the four founding coeditors of Camera...

...John Michael Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1996 Science Friction and Cultural Studies: Intellectuals, Interdisciplinarity, and the Profession of Truth John Michael Albert Einstein Meets the Nutty Professor The recent "science wars" between...

...Anna Siomopoulos Camera Obscura 2006 Anna Siomopoulos teaches cinema studies in the Department of English at Bentley College. She has published articles on US film and culture in Cinema Journal, Film History , and Arizona Quarterly . She is currently completing a book titled “Public...

... Invisible (Intellect, 2012). © 2012 by Camera Obscura 2012 Figure . Bad Father. Invaders from Mars (dir. William Cameron Menzies, US, On Film Studies and the Unconscious Chris Dumas I always had the impression, when I was very small, that my father was two people, one good...

... propose to conflate the role of the academic analyst This paper was presented at the Brisbane Center for Psychoanalytic Studies conference,“Psychoanal- ysis, Perversions, and the Cinema” in September, 1991. 78 (she who reads and interprets the text, in this case, the film) and the...

...Bonnie Ruberg In this interview, Temple University assistant professor of media studies and production Adrienne Shaw discusses her work creating the LGBTQ Video Game Archive. Today, the dynamic interplay between queerness and video games provides scholars with an emerging area of exploration. The...

... male-dominated activities. This study explores the design and marketing of Daisy Rock Girl Guitars and Mattel's Barbie Wireless Video Camcorder, two early examples of this unique category of consumer electronics. Since men have historically dominated both filmmaking and electric guitar playing, these...

... around the appeal of reality television and the reasons for approaching it from a scholarly perspective, particularly that of feminist media studies. This version of the studio Q&A format, honed into a sub-genre by reality TV itself, is designed to elicit not only interest but knowledge—in this case...

... queer gamers, game designers, and games critics and scholars. This introduction frames queer game studies as both a theory and practice, beginning a special In Practice section of Camera Obscura that profiles the Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon), the first conference explicitly dedicated to the...

..., 2010) illustrate that the binding of the asexual to the single, though seemingly misguided, can open up fruitful pathways for reimagining queer relationality. Responding in part to scholarship on singlehood and asexuality while also attending to the film studies historiography of sexuality, this essay...

... potential, and of porn studies' tendency to elide analysis of mainstream texts. Extensive industrial immersion (including interviews with thirty-eight filmmakers and industry insiders) and textual analysis illuminate industrial praxis to argue that the seemingly rigid conventions and taxonomies of...

... offer in cinema and how they might speak to, and resonate with, queer habits, alignments, and tendencies. In doing so, it gestures beyond a concern with representation, (in)visibility, identity, and related concerns around appropriation and queer readings that have historically dominated studies of gay...

... way that cinema “at the margins” has been framed within film studies. First examining the manner in which reflexive work, particularly work that seems to address the loss of authorial control by a film director, has in fact functioned to reinstall the primacy of a dominant subjectivity, the essay then...

...Vincent Hausmann This essay focuses on George Cukor's A Woman's Face (US, 1941), a film that complicates a dominant narrative in studies of Joan Crawford's work that locates Mildred Pierce (dir. Michael Curtiz, US, 1945) as inaugurating the star's pronounced, albeit disparaged, iterations of...

...Therese Davis; Belinda Smaill This introduction to the special issue titled “The Place of the Contemporary Female Director” outlines the genesis of the issue and aims of the editors. Building on a workshop that took place in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, in 2011, the...

... and dispersed in ambivalent representations and interpretations across the mediascape. Due to its combinatory nature and gendered valences, we call this concept the transmediated grotesque . We build this discussion around three reality celebrity case studies: Kate Gosselin, star of TLC's Jon and Kate...

... Girls is a study in the classic psychoanalytic account of abjection, often depicting its protagonist as a dehumanized object full of disappointed drives, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl humorously blends the historical weight of black abjection with other kinds of abjection, so that the...

...Zach Blas; Jacob Gaboury This conversation between scholar Jacob Gaboury and artist Zach Blas explores the unique challenges posed by contemporary digital media technology to the political projects of queer, feminist, critical race, and disability studies. Asking how we might negotiate the politics...

...Melissa Phruksachart This article studies Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) to examine the constitutive role Mickey Rooney’s yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi plays in shoring up the infamous brand of white femininity embodied by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly. In...