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Watching Women: Surveillance and Spectatorship in Early Science Fiction Television
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 35–61.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Cara Dickason Abstract This article analyzes episodes of early science fiction anthology series to examine how fears of television's ability to turn its gaze on the home circulated around women, both as objects of surveillance and as television spectators, in the 1950s and 1960s. Media historians...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. In “O.B.I.T.,” a US Defense Department employee surveils the wife of a government scientist through a mysterious alien technology designed to tear human society apart. “O.B.I.T.,” season 1, episode 7 of The Outer Limits , dir. Gerd Oswald, writ. Meyer Dolinski and Leslie Stevens, ABC
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Adam Harvey's “Anti-Drone” Wear in Three Sites of Opacity
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 175–185.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Jennifer Rhee This essay examines the relationship between surveillance and opacity through artist Adam Harvey's “Anti-Drone” wear, clothing that evades drone surveillance and is part of his Stealth Wear (2013) project. Through an engagement with opacity, the author argues that “Anti-Drone” wear's...
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Opacities: An Introduction
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 149–153.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and a material condition to address issues of surveillance, the nonhuman, and contemporary art. Jennifer Rhee considers clothing that evades drone detection, while Zach Blas and Jacob Gaboury discuss biometric facial recognition and masked protest. Jasmina Tumbas and Jemima Wyman claim camouflage as a refusal...
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Lena Horne's Impersona
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 11–45.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., it was also often the precondition for varieties of hostility, alienation, violation, and surveillance. I conclude with Horne's self-revision of these aloof performances as she articulated a new relationship with her audiences during the civil rights movement and after. Camera Obscura 2008 Shane...
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Biometrics and Opacity: A Conversation
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 155–165.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of visibility in an age of pervasive surveillance, Blas and Gaboury look to the work of artists and critical thinkers who offer alternate modes of veiled, obscured, or otherwise negotiated being in the world. Focusing on Blas's own work, the conversation interrogates what Blas terms “informatic opacity” through...
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How the Computer Taught Us to See
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2024
... side by side, looking closely at how changes in the visualization and datafication of medical diagnosis developed alongside the ways computers were imagined into visual, screen-based technologies that recapitulate the same racialized and gendered logics of medical surveillance and thus of the state...
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Interfaces of Identity: Oriental Traitors and Telematic Profiling in 24
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Lisa Nakamura Images of biometric screens are becoming increasingly common in television and film, particularly in genres such as police procedurals, “terror” television programs, and medical dramas. Digital surveillant screens establish and produce authority and scientific truths about national...
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“The Criticality of Activism Needs to Be Applied to Art”: A Conversation with Jemima Wyman
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 195–203.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., and collaborative interventions as well as the feminist and activist legacies that inform her video, performance, and installation works. For Wyman, opacity and camouflage enable collective emancipatory action in a time of contemporary neoliberal forms of surveillance, as seen in the practices of Pussy Riot members...
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No Bodies Business: Trapdoor Tactics and the Art of Transgender Disappearance in A Fantastic Woman
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 157–188.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... Through its “art of disappearance,” A Fantastic Woman conjures an enticing horizon in which transgender surveillance and subjugation are provisionally contravened, proffering the possibility of sidestepping the disciplining, normalizing powers of the cisgender gaze. 49. Jeanne Vacarro, “Handmade...
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Show Me Yours: Cyber-Exhibitionism from Perversion to Politics
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 131–159.
Published: 01 May 2010
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in media theory has mobilized the terms of the psychoanalytic
model of scopophilia to critique today’s intensification of surveil-
lance. In the intellectual tradition of pessimists like Theodor W.
Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, and Guy Debord, present-day thinkers
on digital media, film...
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Women, X-rays, and the Public Culture of Prophylactic Imaging
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 18–54.
Published: 01 May 1992
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consideration of X-ray technology in the context of public health
campaigns against tuberculosis and breast cancer, I hope to show that,
while the new medical imaging technologies are without question being
used as a form of surveillance and control of bodies and communities...
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Woman-House: Architecture, Gender and Hybridity in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 126–150.
Published: 01 September 1996
... accommodate the hybrid creature illustrated by
these examples, the woman-house in whom gender and architecture,
body and commodity, surveillance and spectacle find physical form.
To do so, it reads this creature as primarily an architectural structure,
but one...
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No Way out of the Menaced Society: Loyalty within the Boundedness of Race
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 6–23.
Published: 01 May 1995
... Los Angeles is a city in which racial and class
polarization wears the highly public face of sophisticated security and
surveillance systems." Within this segregated urban space, gangs have
become the fulcrum of social activity in communities such as Comp-
ton, Echo Park, Watts, and MacArthur...
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Occult Anxieties and the Recessionary Imaginary in the Paranormal Activity Franchise
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
.... © 2015 by Camera Obscura 2015 Paranormal Activity recession trauma found-footage horror financialization Figure 1. A surveillance camera captures a view of the
McMansion featured in Paranormal Activity 2 (dir. Tod
Williams, US, 2010).
Occult Anxieties and the
Recessionary...
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The Politics of Third Way TV: Supernanny and the Commercialization of Public Service TV
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 65–89.
Published: 01 September 2011
... negotiated with the Thatcherite legacy of the com-
modification of popular taste.”11 In a discussion of fashion make-
overs, Gareth Palmer argues that “the concepts of both lifestyle
and surveillance are part of a new discursive formation in which
appearance is of paramount importance — a concern...
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Contagion and the Boundaries of the Visible: The Cinema of World Health
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., the postwar project of global health
surveillance is heavily invested in monitoring physical and
national boundaries. As a result, the films produced by interna-
tional health organizations compulsively pose (and attempt to
solve) the problem of visualizing invisible contagions. Within this
archive...
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Some Kind of Grace: An Interview with Miranda July
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 181–197.
Published: 01 May 2004
... films of Chantal Akerman, July’s work traffics in both the
severe and the banal conditions of contemporary life: environ-
mental illness, family dynamics, obsolescing technology, surveil-
lance, and medical experimentation. In her live performances
Love Diamond (1998) and The Swan Tool (2001...
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Androids and Androgyny
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 36–65.
Published: 01 December 1986
... bridal gown, presumably inducing
orgasm at last. She disappears. This is a nihilistic and almost unbear-
ably Romantic conclusion, a dance of death and apotheosis.
Margaret, as a character, is controlled by a larger system of surveil-
lance of which she is largely unaware. An alien eye...
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Castle & Crook: Necroliberalism and Cartographies of Abandonment in Maquilapolis ( City of Factories ) and Señorita Extraviada ( Missing Young Woman )
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... By focusing our attention on the social and ecological repercussions of neoliberalism, the films offer a spatial critique of the forms of surveillance and containment that reproduce the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion, of belonging and abandonment, and ultimately of fostering life and exposure to death...
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