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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 1–35.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Amy Shore Camera Obscura 2006 Amy Shore is an assistant professor in the Cinema and Screen Studies Program of SUNY Oswego's English department. Her scholarship focuses on activism and media, and she has several forthcoming articles related to her book project, “Suffrage and the Silver...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 69–103.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Ana Stevenson The women’s suffrage subplot in Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins (dir. Robert Stevenson, US, 1964) has come to dominate the popular memory of the history of the turn-of- the- century women’s movement. This essay examines how the film’s imaginative portrayal of women’s suffrage, especially...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
... nouvelle's newsreels were tactical weapons in the fight for suffrage. The organization was not alone in the turn to political filmmaking. Auteurist filmmakers such as Germaine Dulac and Jean Renoir shifted their interest away from director-led “pure” cinema and began calling for filmmakers’ engagement...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 26–47.
Published: 01 May 1993
... Richard Bellamy. The “upstairs” contin-
gent consisted of Bellamy, a commoner who married above him, Lady
Marjorie, his wife and economic support, and their children, James, a
weak and irrespmsible ne’er-do-well, and Elizabeth, who flirted with
socialism, suffragism, and always ended up asking her...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 167–177.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., or with Sarojini Naidu’s
demand for suffrage in the 1900s?3 These are all beginnings,
Interview with Paromita Vohra • 169
and there will be infinite beginnings and versions of this tale.
To extrapolate from this: When does history begin? But political
films believe in far...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 202–223.
Published: 01 September 1991
...” and to allow them to envision alternatives to tradi-
tional family structures. I will outline the range of meanings that were
assigned to the figure of the “Wild Woman” as she moved from turn-
of-the-century debates about suffrage through romantic fiction, pop-
ular humor...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 86–97.
Published: 01 September 1980
...” embodying specified political
reforms. It depended for mass support on economic depression. In 1837 leading members
of the newly formed London Working Men’s Association listed six political demands
(universal adult male suffrage, the ballot, payment of Members of Parliament, abolition...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 73–105.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of this century. These years
bring together a number of important historical developments
that impacted visual culture—the birth of cinema, the physical
culture movement, the suffrage movement—but, more gener-
ally, this period invokes the significant modernist movements in
art, literature, psychology...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 90–129.
Published: 01 January 1990
... for suffrage, was extremely prominent in the
teens. The serial-queen genre consciously tapped into the movement’s
polemical momentum.
A sequence in an episode of the 1918 Pathe serial The Lightning
Raider, for example, frames the heroine’s aggressivity as an overtly
feminist repudiation...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 129–165.
Published: 01 May 2017
... destabilized by the
rise of the women’s movement and its ongoing crusades for wom-
en’s suffrage, contraceptive rights, equal pay, and amendments to
child labor laws. As Shelley Stamp remarks, by the mid-1910s, these
social struggles had started to affect the film industry’s relationship
with girls...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 91–129.
Published: 01 May 1992
... of suffrage and women’s wartime employment-may have con-
tributed in part to their odd research conclusions. Indeed, among their
recommendations, Lashley and Watson suggested that ASHA’s policy
of segregating the audiences by gender be extended to all of the film’s
showings...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 110–127.
Published: 01 May 1981
...
this country of more Chartism than Universal Suffrage [the principal
demand of the Chartists] in half a Also there is a chapter
in Alton Locke, a novel by Charles Kingsley,” in which a Chartist
tailor wraps up his dead child in a coat that he is is sewing for a Lord.
Unknown to him the child has died...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 4–25.
Published: 01 May 1993
....’ In the Victorian period the British
colonial establishment in the Islamic and Asian worlds used the lan-
guage of the early movement for women’s suffrage to criticize the
religion and culture (and particularly the religious culture) of non-Eu-
ropean men.2 In the Islamic colonies...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2012
... in temperance and suffrage movements. It was the
age of the increasingly independent and mobile “New Woman”
and the stage on which the Jazz Age’s sexually liberated “ apper”
appeared.20 At the same time, as the beaux- arts period drew to a
close, the urban realist Ashcan school of painting emerged...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., collaboration holds the promise to
extend capacities, challenge hierarchies, and create new forms of
community. For Western feminists from the Circle of Ultras work-
ing on women’s suffrage in the late nineteenth century to those
involved in the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 191–217.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... Freedman, Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015). 14. For an incredibly detailed account of this history see Chapter 3, “Anti-Tom and The Birth of a Nation ,” in Linda Williams, Playing the Race Card: Melodramas...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 33–63.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Suffrage through the Rise of the New
Right (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
8. Nickerson, Mothers of Conservatism, 169.
9. See Aniko Bodroghkozy, Equal Time: Television and the Civil
Rights Movement (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012);
Sasha Torres...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 177–211.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of Hungarian Feminists”
offers a scathing parody of manmade history and masculine
scientific conceit. The scene evokes the early history of the Hun-
garian suffrage movement at the turn of the century, a part of
national history that was entirely “forgotten” during the decades
192 • Camera Obscura...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 25–59.
Published: 01 December 2007
... Obscura
polemical suffrage treatises” for viewing (Stamp, Movie-Struck
Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon
[Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000], 197). Though
pathologized as “unable to separate film viewing from romantic
dreams...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and against women’s suffrage
• Camera Obscura
in these proslavery essays brings to the surface forms of speech
and racial thinking that otherwise rarely appear overtly in public
discourse: that elves (others) ought to be enslaved because their
nature makes them too different to be treated...
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