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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 (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 33–37.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday Practices: Feminism, Materiality, Temporality Mary Desjardins My first exposure to Camera Obscura was in 1979 or 1980, while I was a master’s student in comparative literature at the University...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 149–175.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... It argues that Tumblr encourages its users to draw on the fragmentary, potentially incoherent pieces of information they regularly encounter on the site in order to collectively create narratives that can accommodate them. In other words, Tumblr's platform characteristics produce a queer temporality...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 69–101.
Published: 01 September 2008
... the temporal underpinnings of After Life 's evocation of photogénie , seasonal passing, memory, identification, and gendered experience to show the sensual gravity of benevolent attention. I argue that After Life illustrates the way in which film can enable our taking the time to learn a sensual and sensitive...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 31–57.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ekin Pinar Abstract This article considers how the temporality at work in Chick Strand's film Mosori Monika (US, 1970) breaks with the patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist narratives of genealogy, progress, and production. In Mosori Monika , an experimental ethnographic film that documents...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
Published: 01 September 2013
... into alignment. What this essay explores is a certain perversion of these forms of temporal matching — or what I am calling queer sound tracks: image-sound relations unfixed in ways that are not only dynamic aesthetically but that also evoke an affective, diachronic bond to the past. What is heard during...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 163–193.
Published: 01 September 2019
... a radically different approach to multiethnic coexistence, emancipatory sexual politics, the temporalities of modernity, and the domain of the law that is so closely connected to sexual and religious freedoms. The essay thereby analyzes the problem of liberalism in the context of multiply constituted notions...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... It attends to the way in which such photographs turn personal scenes of mourning into collective memorials to militancy, even as they embalm their subjects in a state of temporal paralysis and strip them of their individual history. It contrasts these snapshots to Chhachhi’s collaborative portrait of Chadha...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 37–67.
Published: 01 May 2013
... cultural form of the white middle-class nuclear family in a context where norms of heterosexual family and conjugal life are at once firmly entrenched and widely contested. Largely overlooked in film criticism, The Hours is characterized by its baroque and generative temporality and intertextuality...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 149–175.
Published: 01 December 2024
... the temporalities and affective dimensions of both, as well as the ways media practices and subjectivity become intertwined. To be specific, the article examines the experience of living in the impasse, which is brought on by temporal engagements, such as the reset and the grind, with videogames. Living...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., by working-class women, feminists, and lesbian and gay activists. Eschewing recognition of such complexities, the narrative drive of the film relies on a temporal and spatial transition that places familial reconciliation in a postconflictual present and in a location far removed from the communal...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of the modernity theorized by Walter Benjamin. Fashion is a crucial signifier that enables Benjamin to articulate the temporal instability that is, for him, constitutive of modernity; fashion is also a vital tool used by Coppola to overlap her life with the modern Marie Antoinette that she creates in her film. Yet...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 63–93.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... In reperformance, the documentation image is made live again , thereby reorienting its temporal relationship to performance. Through an examination of the work of porn-star-turned-performance-artist Annie Sprinkle, the “grandmother of performance art” Marina Abramović, and younger Canadian artist Diane Borsato...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 1–23.
Published: 01 September 2012
... cooking-show hosts, the line between performance/entertainment and instruction/information on television, and the position of host on television in relation to audience, temporality, and the notion of home and self. Kathleen Collins is a reference librarian and associate professor at the City...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 141–151.
Published: 01 December 2016
... practices. These performances produce a common affective understanding of the present and a shared envisioning of the future as the overlapping temporalities of collectivity. Jihoon Kim is an assistant professor of cinema and media studies at Chungang University, South Korea. He is the author...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
... through the different terrains of collective memory, the article shows that the militarized vision and real-time temporality of Drones produce control effects of visibility like those that currently characterize the borderlands. In contrast, the haptic and entangled aesthetics of TruNode produce...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 59–89.
Published: 01 September 2022
... described a cohort of films beginning around 2009 in which familial dysfunction, violence, ineffectual communication, and corporeal “weirdness” allegorize Greek political, economic, and social crises. In a kind of temporal jumble, Tsangari's first film Fit (Greece, 1994) provides instructions for reading...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the Anthropocene. In the process, what is erased is also the memory of other stories that could have been told, stories that emerge out of a history of violence against Black being—what Hortense Spillers calls “high crimes against the flesh ”—and that demand a temporality and a point of view that the cinema...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of cinephilia; Akerman's complex relation to her own cinematic becoming and cinema's historiography; and the distinct temporality and duration of cinema produced by and for the figure of the girl. The article demonstrates that in Akerman's filmmaking, the figure of girl as cinéfille is not a position...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 103–131.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Naomi Morgenstern Abstract This essay analyzes Denis Villeneuve's 2016 film, Arrival , and elucidates its strikingly original meditation on the ethics of reproduction and the relationships between and among embodied maternal subjectivity, language, and temporality. Drawing on deconstructive...
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