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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 195–214.
Published: 01 September 1985
...Diane Waldman; Janet Walker Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985 Book Reviews
Is the Gaze Maternal?: E. Ann Kaplan’s Women
and FiZm: Both Sides of the Camera
Dime WaZdman andJanet WaZher
It has been over two years since the publication of E. Ann Kaplan’s...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 75–103.
Published: 01 September 2004
... , and English Studies in Canada . Currently she is working on a book on violence in film and stage versions of Shakespeare's plays. Catherine (Jennifer Lopez) as subjected beauty: the viewer’s
“full prize,” in The Cell (dir. Tarsem Singh, US/Germany,
2000)
Hook and Eye:
Violence and the Captive Gaze...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 54–85.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Kaja Silverman Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989
Fassbinder and Lacan: A Reconsideration of
Gaze, Look and Image
Kaja Silverman
Although the descriptive phrase “aesthetics of pessimism” derives from
Fassbinder himself,l it might well have been...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2010
... & Event . From Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, US, 1982)
Affects of the Gaze: Post-Oedipal
Desire and the Traversal
of Fantasy in Blade Runner
Richard Pope
Despite the vagaries of the film and its reception, within the uni-
versity a consensus interpretation of Blade Runner (dir...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 197–227.
Published: 01 December 2001
...) holding her own against the
hardened miners. Rags (US 1915), directed by James
Kirwood. Photos throughout courtesy Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Oh, “Doll Divine”:
Mary Pickford,
Masquerade, and the
Pedophilic Gaze
Gaylyn Studlar
Mary Pickford, doll divine,
Year by year...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
Published: 01 September 2017
... surrounding these films rather than on their structure and the radical politics of the gaze they enact. Fat Girl depicts shocking and violent material as a means of critiquing the underlying structural violence that the director believes determines gendered power relations. Breillat's films have been...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 77–111.
Published: 01 May 2004
... the Gaze: Visual
Fascination and the Feminine
Image in Silent Hitchcock
Jessica Brent
Are not the traits which I indicated (the make-up, the
whiteness, the wig, etc.) just like the blunting of a meaning too
clear, too violent? Do they not give the obvious signified a kind
of difficultly...
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in No Bodies Business: Trapdoor Tactics and the Art of Transgender Disappearance in A Fantastic Woman
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. The transgender gaze of Marina (Daniela Vega) takes hold, the mirror acting as a shield against cisgender scrutiny. A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2017)
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in No Bodies Business: Trapdoor Tactics and the Art of Transgender Disappearance in A Fantastic Woman
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 7. The fantastic transgender gaze of Marina (Daniela Vega) takes flight. A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2017)
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 157–188.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 1. The transgender gaze of Marina (Daniela Vega) takes hold, the mirror acting as a shield against cisgender scrutiny. A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2017) ...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 175–185.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of opacity shifts discussions of seeing and knowing toward situatedness, partiality, and the limits of the Western gaze; this section draws on Donna Haraway's interventions into debates about objectivity and Chandra Talpade Mohanty's critique of the colonial gaze in some Western feminist scholarship...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 69–101.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and alternating between documentary-like scenarios and quiet, evocative cinematic pauses on the natural world, After Life contrasts a bucolic landscape with the spectacle of film production. Moreover, After Life privileges the transformative potential of a benevolent gaze (subjectively held by its female...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 35–61.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Cara Dickason Abstract This article analyzes episodes of early science fiction anthology series to examine how fears of television's ability to turn its gaze on the home circulated around women, both as objects of surveillance and as television spectators, in the 1950s and 1960s. Media historians...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 65–93.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and the multiplicity of gazes at play in the making of this authenticity. Specifically, the tape illuminates the reflexive constitution of an authentic black masculinity via the white female gaze while further revealing pornography's investment in the imaging and imagining of a genuine black masculinity as being still...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of gender in the psychological constitution of the subject. As a further extension into the cinematic representation of women, the female usurpation of the gaze will also be dissected in terms of its adverse consequences in these films. The essay therefore argues that the current Asian horror film...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 91–113.
Published: 01 May 2022
...‐saturated age. But her work brings up—and plays with—a question that has haunted abject feminist figurative art: does the genre attract the male gaze, or avert it? After all, the artist has garnered immense popular appeal while making work with motifs like menstrual blood. Theorists of disgust, however—from...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the assumed heteronormativity of the characters in the script as well as by not limiting who can be cast as each character: a straight white man, for instance, can find himself playing a queer woman of color. Coffee troubles the idea of the gaze in the sense of being a transparent production wherein...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 95–119.
Published: 01 December 2024
... rollers on a road trip, the author contends, durationally slow down and stall cisheteronormative temporalities, obviating from the showy and profitable trans and queer of color performance-labor crucial to the filmic gaze and capitalist drives and scrambling representational coherence and historical...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 77–107.
Published: 01 September 2013
... depictions of motherhood, especially as they pertain to the question of race, is juxtaposed with the form of the oppositional gaze represented in two adoption documentary films: Nicole Opper's Off and Running (US, 2009) and Camille Billops and James Hatch's groundbreaking Finding Christa (US, 1991...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 131–159.
Published: 01 May 2010
... the rigidity of physical space and the ephemerality of real-time information processing. The contested boundary between public and private is necessarily reconfigured along with the mediated gaze relation, its articulation with language and textuality, and its possibilities for communication and horizontal...
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