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Vision, Desire, and the Film-Text
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 54–89.
Published: 01 December 1980
...D.N. Rodowick © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980
Vision, Desire, and the Fib-Text
D. N,Rodowick
The task confronting this analysis is to try to define more precisely the
relationship between the enunciation of desire and its representations
in the fiction film...
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Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai?/What Is behind the Stardom? Madhuri Dixit, the Production Number, and the Construction of the Female Star Text in 1990s Hindi Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 129–159.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Usha Iyer Though popular Hindi cinema is frequently identified by its song-and-dance sequences, little has been written specifically about film dance. This article analyzes film dance and female stardom in Hindi films of the late 1980s and 1990s through an examination of the star text of Madhuri...
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Is Film Theory Queer Theory? Or, Everything I Know about Queerness I Learned at the Movies
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2013
... on and consistently modeled the responsibilities of a gay film critic was the late Alexander Doty, who pushed even further what it meant to queer a text. Doty insisted, as Wood did two decades before him, that queerness is less to be found “in” texts than in the reception and production of texts, particularly...
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2. Carolee Schneemann, Americana I Ching Apple Pie (1975/1977). Detail from performance documentation, text by Schneeman, photographs by Su Friedrich. © 2021 Carolee Schneemann Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Affects of the Gaze: Post-Oedipal Desire and the Traversal of Fantasy in Blade Runner
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2010
... be that the film is substantially more open to the fluctuations and even deconstructions of the Oedipal relation, working through it while never, in fact, buttressing it. In noting that film texts provide (for) fantasy scenarios in which spectators are placed, however ambiguously, and through which they roam...
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Tactics of Tears: Excess/Erasure in the Gay Chinese Melodramas of Fleeing by Night and Lan Yu
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Fleeing by Night and Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu engage gay sexuality through their interactions with Chinese melodramatic conventions, be it moving with or running against the grain of the genre. While Fleeing by Night abides more strictly by these conventions to produce a “hysterical” text of excess, Lan Yu...
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“Scotch! Scotch! Scotch!”: The Inoperative Domestic Scene in Chantal Akerman's Saute ma ville
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 55–79.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Eleanor Rowe-Stefanik Abstract This article reads Chantal Akerman's short film Saute ma ville ( Blow Up My Town , Belgium, 1968) with and against texts by Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, and Herman Melville. Rather than being merely a precursor to Akerman's later genre‐defining efforts...
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The Whiteness of Privacy: Race, Media, Law
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 67–107.
Published: 01 May 2009
... trademark, the present essay argues that anxieties about the media exposure and commodification of white women that saturated the legal texts of media privacy were correlative to the spectacular forms of exposure and commodification of black subjects routine in the era's commercial print culture...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 1–39.
Published: 01 December 2009
... in these films, Osterweil reads these texts as attempts to reconcile the trauma of interracial desire as represented in D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet while these films superimpose their own utopian fantasies of interracial, intergenerational romance over the vision of racial violence “written...
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“They Can't Do This to Us !”: Alan Alda as (Anti)Feminist Signifier
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 35–61.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Peter Alilunas Alan Alda has an important legacy not only as an actor but also as a feminist activist. This article reexamines his star text from the perspective of his political work as a vocal and very public supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, as well as explores why his name...
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In the Shadow
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 1–43.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., be attached to skin pigmentation but indicates instead the body's extension beyond itself into the social sphere. With a close analysis of a variety of visual texts, ranging from the shadow of a lynched body in a 1930s NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) photograph...
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Choreographing Homosexual Desire in Philippe Vallois's Johan
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., pornography) with New Wave cinematic aesthetics (jump cuts, an interrupted sound track, a revealed apparatus). It is a remarkable film for its sexual forthrightness as well as the value Vallois places on cinematic form. Johan is a dynamic text particularly when read through the contemporaneous political...
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Slapstick Comediennes in Transitional Cinema: Between Body and Medium
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 85–117.
Published: 01 September 2014
... comedienne performers — most of whom have now dropped out of historical visibility entirely. I frame this comparative analysis through close readings of two key texts: a Vitagraph trick film, Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (dir. J. Stuart Blackton, 1909), which depicts the surrealistic plight...
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The Terror That Makes One Whatever One Is: Sterling Hayden's Emotional Testimonies
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 157–187.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of a synchronic analysis of affect and ontology. This article argues that the analysis of a particular passion, coalescing in a series of moments in a single star text, offers a way to reconcile these divergent theoretical models. Matt Tierney , PhD, is assistant professor of English at Penn State...
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Selling a Rebellion: The Industrial Logic of Mainstream Alt-Porn
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 29–61.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., and of porn studies' tendency to elide analysis of mainstream texts. Extensive industrial immersion (including interviews with thirty-eight filmmakers and industry insiders) and textual analysis illuminate industrial praxis to argue that the seemingly rigid conventions and taxonomies of mainstream adult video...
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Everything Is Wiped Away: Queer Temporality in Queers in Love at the End of the World
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 185–192.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the usual flow of information between the player and their player-character. In this text-based Twine game, players assume the role of an unnamed, unknown “you” as you spend a final moment with your lover. Made for the prompt “Ten Seconds,” its most notable feature is an omnipresent ten-second timer. When...
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Cinderella Man: Russell Crowe as Il Diva
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 47–67.
Published: 01 May 2008
... within the narrative itself. With the extracinematic publicity and critical texts appearing after this film, the actor's by then well-publicized aggressive tendencies are reworked as signs of the a actor's authenticity as he follows a path of supposed self-discovery. Crowe's recent film roles have...
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A Permeable Practice: Shortbus and the Politics of Cinematic Collaboration
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 5–25.
Published: 01 May 2016
... considers these stakes by discussing Shortbus as both a text and a set of performative practices predicated on embodied engagement and gestural exchange. Serving as a jumping-off point for this endeavor is George Kouvaros's work on another figure in US cinema known for his collaborative ventures, John...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to racism to losing their jobs. In this essay, I argue that Bookchin's work makes an important feminist intervention into discourses that either demonize or lionize social media. Utilizing strategies of seriality, database/narrative, and orchestration, Bookchin crafts a set of composite found footage texts...
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“Actors Simply Explode”: To Act in the Cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 93–117.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and texts, a vocal training that works against the dictates of standard punctuation, and the organization of a discipline to act are the main components of a methodology that refuses to obey a specific martial order of reading, speaking, and acting. Attending to Straub and Huillet's comments...
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