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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 121–154.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of accounting for the queerness of queer cinema through a consideration of embodiment, intercorporeality, kinesthetic empathy, and a phenomenological understanding of orientation. By exploring the links between (cinematic) texture and spatiality, the article accounts for the tactile and muscular encounters...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 105–117.
Published: 01 December 2021
... are predominantly creative women, including the poet Elizabeth Bishop, the Dada artist Hannah Höch, the surreal photographer Claude Cahun, and the painter Nicole Eisenman. Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2021 Barbara Hammer lesbian documentary queer affect tactile...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 9–57.
Published: 01 December 2001
... forms of socialization, that com-
manded Benjamin’s attention as a utopian or, at least, innervating
experience most readily supplied by the cinema.
“It hit the spectator like a bullet, it happened to him, thus
acquiring a tactile quality,” said Benjamin with respect to Dada
artworks, which...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 71–102.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., tactile hand-built sets, isolated artificial sound, close-ups, juxtaposition, rhythmic pacing, and nonactors selected for their distinct physical features all make it hard for the viewer to turn away. 22 One can see an example of this in the opening scene of Bunny driving to work ( fig. 5 ). Unlike...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 185–192.
Published: 01 September 2017
... on-screen representation. Engaging analyses of queer temporality and slow cinema, as well as José Esteban Muñoz's call toward queer futurity and the yearning to be lost, Queers in Love at the End of the World provides an excellent opportunity to look at the anxiety of seeking success and the joy...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 31–61.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Rebecca A. Sheehan Abstract This article considers the cinematic works of the contemporary American artist Sharon Lockhart in the context of what it identifies as philosophies and practices of “the casual,” from the impact of Emersonian aesthetics on post – World War II American avant‐garde cinema...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 9–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
... et la glaneuse , France, 2000), exploring Varda's materialist feminism and her use of earthly and tactile materials. The author focuses not only on matter but also on the imagination and the intangible images, colors, and forms that are prominent in her oeuvre, arguing that Yanco served as a muse...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 238–261.
Published: 01 January 1992
..., cities and mountains glide by. They look more like faces than travel
highlight
In Naples, cinema was implanted on the very threshold of the pan-
oramic and the anatomical, as mapped by Kracauer. The following
microhistorical case, pertaining to the city’s first movie theater located...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 115–149.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., exhibits its own specific corpo-
real conduct—one whose relation to the linguistic function may
be at best fragile, yet possesses nonetheless its own signifying sta-
tus as symptom.
The relations between vision and tactility in Peeping Tom...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2021
... materialist feminism and her use of earthly and tactile materials. “Floating Roots” focuses not only on matter but also on the imagination and the intangible images, colors, and forms that are prominent in her oeuvre, arguing that Yanco served as a muse to his niece. Emma Wilson turns to another less...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2005
... Deleuze’s description of
cinema after World War II, in the crystalline explosion of time, of
the past. This is time getting fucked in the ass. Narrative logic has
Copyright © 2005 by Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura 58, Volume 20, Number 1
Published by Duke University Press
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34 • Camera...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... while trying to promote peace between Israel and Palestine. Madam Secretary (CBS, 2014 2019), which premiered the same year as The Honourable Woman, stars Téa Leoni as the newly appointed and extremely ethical secretary of state entering into the midst of political drama and turbulence. Cinema s...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 61–89.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of gendered and neocolonial norms determining recognition and value within world cinema. Atmosphere also thematizes that which resists full disclosure, such as the unrealized but looming possibility of incestuous desire haunting Late Spring and Denis's oeuvre. Incest's equivocal, ambiguous, but potentially...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 31–57.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the seventies that was concerned with the problems posed by the representation of the female body and how the dominant patriarchal gaze shaped the ways in which popular media and mainstream films represented women. Laura Mulvey's seminal 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in particular...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 113–157.
Published: 01 December 2001
... cinemas. Her work has appeared in Afterimage, Cinema Journal , and Post Script . This essay is part of a larger manuscript titled “Recollecting Histories: Women, Writing, and Film.” Colleen Moore works inside the Great Hall, 1935.
Photograph courtesy Joseph Yranski
History in Miniature:
Colleen...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 59–89.
Published: 01 September 2022
... signature emerges in her struggle against category, especially Weird Wave and “women's cinema” labels. In diegetic and extradiegetic negotiations of belonging, Tsangari's auteurism emerges. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2022 Athina Rachel...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Anna Ball One of the many astonishing traits of Palestinian cinema is the way in which it has embraced the complex relationship between gender and nation as a central concern in its filmmaking. This article explores the ways in which gendered and national identity are negotiated and refigured...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Jean Ma In the 1950s and 1960s, film songs were a ubiquitous feature of Hong Kong cinema, and their performance was the exclusive domain of singing actresses. One of the biggest screen stars and recording artists of this era was Grace Chang. Chang made her debut in Mambo Girl (dir. Evan Yang [Yi...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 1–33.
Published: 01 September 2005
...:
(Cross-)Cultural Projection,
Spectatorship, and Iranian Cinema
Lindsey Moore
This article addresses the entwined issues of gendered and cul-
tural representation in contemporary Iranian cinema. One of the
remarkable features of recent Iranian film is its allegorical use of
gendered...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 93–127.
Published: 01 December 2007
... with the development of its tactile and olfactory senses.
Seeing the mother signals not only physical separation but also a
relativized proximity, for — as in the cinema — vision is predicated
on a certain ideal distance from the object. If the object comes
too close, proper discernment becomes impossible...
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