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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Irene Gustafson This article analyzes Shirley Clarke's seminal film, Portrait of Jason (US, 1967). Through an examination of the film's formal qualities within the context of its production and reception, this article argues that the film is best understood as a “screen test.” The relatively scant...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 89–123.
Published: 01 September 2015
... as a playground for the player but also as a proving ground where social mores are repeatedly tested. Practices such as lynching, segregation, and phrenology are woven into the narrative and the player must sometimes literally decide whether to endorse or oppose the racism modeled in the game. The hack-and-slash...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 167–173.
Published: 01 September 2016
... conventional testing, a new form of identity has been produced that collapses the categories of “positive” and “negative.” The undetectable person is at once neither and both, a curious indeterminacy that throws into question what we mean when we speak of our “status.” In his treatise The Principles...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2018
... situates queer as a structure of feeling that tends to be glimpsed not in its murkiness as a structure but rather through some of the forms in which it gets concretized. It comprehends limited cel animation as a fertile mode through whose motions we may test claims about queer structure’s precipitation...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 88–107.
Published: 01 September 1991
... simply isn’t “human” enough. Some-
how more or less “human” than a human film, Blade Runner flunks
the cultural empathy test. In Blade Runner’s terminology, this film is
a “replicant.”
And yet, these critical judgments rely on the assumptions and dis-
tinctions that the film so radically...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 18–54.
Published: 01 May 1992
... of adequate mainte-
nance and inspection.6 That the situation in New York exists elsewhere
as well is made clear in a 1985 report of the federal Food and Drug
Administration which states that 36 percent of the mammography
facilities they tested produced images of unacceptable q~ality...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
...
on social marketing techniques to convince viewers to enact what it
depicts as necessary individual and personal (rather than political
or economic) transformations, such as condom usage, HIV testing,
reducing the number of one’s sexual partners, and monogamy.
In Marketing Social Change, Alan...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 100–133.
Published: 01 January 1992
...
identity.
Who first discovered the virus is tied to money in the form of
increased grants and prizes, and, as important, to patent rights on the
techniques used to test for the virus’ presence. It is also linked to power,
the ability to command and control resources...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 42–74.
Published: 01 May 1997
... better, they were “caught on tape,” as evidenced by an
oft-repeated Fox documentary. In between these events, the US Air
Force issued yet another “final report” on Roswell. This one claimed
that the alien bodies allegedly found at the crash site were actually
test dummies used...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 145–171.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the intended users who were encouraged to use IntraCourse to “put your sex life in drive,” I approached IntraCourse as a research object and tested it on my own, experimenting with the program to see how it adapted to varied inputs of hypothetical model users. Although I did not use it with a partner...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 162–194.
Published: 01 September 1985
...
vie; Passion; Prinom: Carmen) as a cash advance on the anticipated rental
of the equipment.
Easter 1978: Aaton goes to work. June 1979: the prototype is born, and
William Lubtchansky makes the first tests, on a street in the 16th
arrondissement in Paris. That’s when...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 108–132.
Published: 01 September 1991
... by a scene which
puts a particular pair of eyes, again conspicuously blue, on trial. Leon,
one of the rebel replicants, is subjected to the Voigt-Kampff test, which
is calculated to determine through the “capillary dilation of the so-
called blush response,” the “fluctuation of the pupil...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 104–126.
Published: 01 May 1976
... is in front of them, because the chains will not let them
turn their heads." Thus it is their motor paralysis, their inability to move 109
about that, making the reality test impractical for them, re-inforces their
error and makes them inclined to take for real that which takes its place,
perhaps its...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 101–127.
Published: 01 May 2015
... show’s setting,
“the shore,” becomes the stage on which practices of self-care are
modeled, tested, and consolidated into no less than an ethos.
I will argue that this notion of care needs to be understood
in a double sense: care as a regimen of behaviors or practices that
accrue...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 142–153.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Berlin and Venice continue to sign on to the plan.2 Telje made headlines when she launched the A- rating in Swedish independent cinemas in 2013, a market- ing strategy specifically highlighting films that pass the Bechdel test.3 Like Serner, Telje has been invited by women s organizations Promoting...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 212–241.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Carolyn Bronstein Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 A Healthy Challenge: The National Nutrition Test (Lifetime Television, 1993)
Mission Accomplished? Profits and
Programming at the Network for Women
Carolyn Bronstein
In the latest round of proposed funding cuts...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 35–75.
Published: 01 December 2023
... saw with the training of the “color sense.” What made the postwar period distinct, however, was that color typologies were linked to consumer choice, individualism, and even pleasure. Particularly within the discourse of color psychology and personality testing, there was a clear perceived correlation...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 219–226.
Published: 01 December 1989
... of the scientific method which
says, “Pay attention to the anomaly. It is that against which you test
your theory.” That adage has always been important to me, at least
in a formal way, from the about the age of fifteen on.
Earlier than that, I had to learn to analyze my own...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 219–224.
Published: 01 May 1979
... a side effect of socio-biologicalsystems . . .we can
hope not for freedom but only that for a short time we don’t deceive
each other. . .
About this film:
anna (a victim of the phenomenon of agreement) observes her environ-
ment with her professional tools in order to test...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 156–177.
Published: 01 January 1992
... that every lesion a mammogram detects will
develop into an invasive cancer, and there is no test to distinguish those
that will from those that will not.) In addition, mammography does
not work for all women. Dense breast tissue-which is typical in
women under 40-can make mammograms virtually...
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