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Re witched : Retextuality and the Queering of Bewitched
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and methodological intervention in studies of television. It argues that in syndication, the production labor of syndicators, executives, programmers, and marketing departments effectively retextualizes shows like Bewitched , offering scholars opportunities for new textual analyses and new insight...
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“The Soap Opera Is a Hell of an Exciting Form”: Norman Lear's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and the 1970s Viewer
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 109–149.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Erin Lee Mock Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (syndicated, 1976 – 77) rightly remains a touchstone for television scholars whose work emphasizes genre, gender, and sexuality, and its creator, Norman Lear, is a critical figure to discussions of the television industry in the 1970s. I argue...
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Reality Moms, Real Monsters: Transmediated Continuity, Reality Celebrity, and the Female Grotesque
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 11–39.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., Pregnant episode of The Test, prod. Stage 29 Productions, syndicated, 23 September 2013. 19. Laurie Ouellette, It s Not TV, It s Birth Control : Reality Television and the Problem of Teenage Pregnancy, in 34 Camera Obscura Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality...
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Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in Far from Heaven
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 187–219.
Published: 01 December 2004
... • Camera Obscura
television syndication (and thus the television rerun), the
program has nonetheless been almost continuously available
since its inception. In an influential essay on the spectatorial
possibilities and limitations of I Love Lucy, Patricia Mellencamp
offers...
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Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and Serial Drama, 1946–1970
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 203–225.
Published: 01 January 1988
.... Syndicated titles include Royal Playhouse, TV
Theater, Theatre Time, and others. Owned by Procter & Gamble, 1951-1958,
this program evolved into Jane Wyman Theater. UCLA: 1 episode; 1953.
2. Ford Television Theater. NBC; ABC; October 1952-June 1957. This is another...
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Stripping on the Girl Channel: Lifetime, thirtysomething , and Television Form
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 166–191.
Published: 01 May 1994
... practices. While it is crucial for analysts of television
to understand Lifetime’s specific appeal to and manipulation of that
female audience, its lineup of syndicated daily reruns of off-network
series may also help to illuminate several aspects of the televisual not
automatically associated...
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Erasure: Alienation, Paranoia, and the Loss of Memory in The X-Files
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 195–225.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., in
the film, several conspiracies from the television series coalesce.
Devoted X-philes will already be familiar with the black oil, which
in the show was extracted from a meteorite and used experimen-
tally by the Shadow Syndicate, possibly in search of a way...
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Lifetime's Feminine Psychographic Space and the “Mystery Loves Company” Series
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 42–75.
Published: 01 May 1994
..., . . . characterized by response and
connectednesByars finds these traits-which she refers to as
“elements of resistance” to the dominant male discourse-even in
television shows with male leads, such as Spenser for Hire. (Lifetime
also acquired this program in syndication.) Whatever the basis...
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Once in a Lifetime: Constructing “The Working Woman” through Cable Narrowcasting
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 12–41.
Published: 01 May 1994
...) distributed nationally by the networks to the syndicated
shows that plug the off-network holes in affiliates’ schedules (such as
Oprah Winfrey, Donahue, Geraldo, Ricki Lake, and Sally Jessy Ra-
phael), the talk show remains a staple of women’s television.12 But
even as soaps...
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Introduction
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 6–11.
Published: 01 May 1994
... “Stripping on the Girl Channel:
Lifetime, thirtysomething, and Television Form” grapples with the de-
tails of what happens to a conventional, prime-time television text when
it is syndicated and stripped on a daily basis. Her critique of thirtysome-
thing demonstrates the ways Lifetime’s selection...
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Smokin' Tokens: thirtysomething and TV's Queer Dilemma
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 192–211.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of addressing and exorcising the “gay problem” in
one convenient episode. Still, the majority of television shows that
attempt to deal with queer subject matter are often highly controversial
(thirtysomething), and several have been forced to make specific cuts
or use “less explicit” shots in response...
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War and Remembrance: Televisual Narrative, National Memory, and China Beach
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 146–165.
Published: 01 May 1994
... provides
Americans with something like a television archive, recirculating the
“living room war’’ alongside off-network or syndicated runs of Law
and Order or Nanny and the Professor.
If cable channels like CNN and Lifetime have taken on a particular
role...
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Disregarding Romance and Refashioning Femininity: Getting Down and Dirty with the Designing Women
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 102–123.
Published: 01 September 1993
... in ways that
collapsed character and actress.” This is nothing new in the press’s
relationship to TV celebrities, but in an almost surprisingly dispro-
portionate way, it was almost always a focus on romance that shaped
these women’s (both real and fictional) lives in the press coverage...
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Upscale Feminine Angst: Molly Dodd , the Lifetime Cable Network and Gender Marketing
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 102–131.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Pamela Wilson Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Upscale Feminine Angst:
Molly Dodd, the Lifetime Cable Network
and Gender Marketing
Pamela Wilson
The narrative in the trade press about the TV series The Days and
Nights...
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Xuxa at the Borders of Global TV: The Institutionalization and Marginalization of Brazil's Blonde Ambition
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 29–59.
Published: 01 May 1996
...
through her association with Globo, for she and Mattos shrewdly
incorporated before Xuxa joined Globo's line-up; thus her own pro-
duction company retains rights to her appearances outside TV Globo,
including syndication rights for her Spanish-language program, pro-
duced at Telefe in Argentina
Yet...
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The Cabinet of Dr. Pee-wee: Consumerism and Sexual Terror
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 133–154.
Published: 01 May 1988
...-tech, low-taste spectacle
of sexually ambiguous adults, not exactly pretending to be kids, yet
inhabiting this child’s fantasy-land with hyperactive glee. Outside and
around the Playhouse we have the world of Saturday morning television
and its efforts to deliver the children...
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“Little girls and the things that they love”: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , Audience, Identity, and the Privilege of Contemporary Fan Culture
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of participatory culture with which the new series is associated. Despite the apparent transgression of men enjoying a television show clearly coded as being for young girls, the article argues that Brony practices reproduce many male-centered aspects of fan media consumption in a manner that recuperates...
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Projections and Intersections: Paranoid Textuality in Sorry, Wrong Number
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 71–113.
Published: 01 December 2002
... text’s mediational system.
The Medium Is the Message
In early infomercials for the Psychic Friends Network (PFN),
once the best known of the many psychic hotlines that began
advertising on television in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Linda
Georgian, the network’s purported master, would claim...
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Green's Clues, or What's Queer about Clue ?
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 7–33.
Published: 01 December 2023
... costars; there are high-school theater adaptations. There were, crucially for the history of the film's cult popularity, hundreds of screenings on syndicated television; now, there are pandemic movie nights on Twitter. 2 This obsessive watching and rewatching and re-creating of a film...
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(TV) Junkies in Need of an Intervention : On Addictive Spectatorship and Recovery Television
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 71–99.
Published: 01 May 2015
... televi-
sion is seen as more difficult to binge watch. Lacking the narrative
complexity of serialized, prime-time drama and the possibility for
widespread syndication typical of many sitcoms, reality TV is popu-
larly dismissed as too simplistic, too shallow, and too ubiquitous. As
Rebecca...
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