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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2013
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Afterlife and Afterimage:
Maya Deren in
“Transfigured Time”
Lucy Fischer
Maya Deren has long been hailed as an inspired trailblazer of the
New American Cinema and a female pioneer in a field dominated
by men. So it was fitting that in October 2011, the fiftieth anniver-
sary of her...
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Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 66–85.
Published: 01 December 1986
...Constance Penley © 1986 by Camera Obscura 1986 The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
Time Travel, Primal Scene,
and the Critical Dystopia
Constance Penle y
If the sure sign of postmodern success is the ability to inspire spin-offs,
The Terminator was a prodigy. The film...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 163–191.
Published: 01 May 2000
... 43-5, 162-191 6/7/00 11:56 AM Page 163
Bahram Bayzai’s
Maybe . . . Some Other Time:
The un-Present-able Iran
Negar Mottahedeh
In a paper given in Paris and published in Iran-nameh’s special...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 87–113.
Published: 01 December 2022
... has undergone a mutation. At the same time, pushed to its limit, the logic of extraction and exchange that ruled over the life of the “cargo” precipitated “a wild and unclaimed richness of possibility,” producing a zone of gender undifferentiation that will work against the order of the (white) family...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 119–143.
Published: 01 September 2023
... (dir. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon, US, 2012) includes a discussion of the media climate at the time. 48. Shohat and Stam, Unthinking Eurocentrism , 179. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2023 rape realism...
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in Self-Suspension in Frames: Hito Steyerl's Lovely Andrea
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 9. “Two feelings at the same time.” Ageha performing self-suspension. Lovely Andrea (dir. Hito Steyerl, Japan/Austria/Germany, 2007). Courtesy of the artist
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 37–67.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Woolf's modernist “moment of being”; the performativity of gender and kinship (Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick); and theories of queer time and affect (Judith Halberstam, Elizabeth Freeman, Lauren Berlant). These readings probe The Hours 's return to mediated cultural ideals of white conjugal...
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 3–17.
Published: 01 December 1984
...Denise Mann © 1984 by Camera Obscura 1984
Modem Sexuahty (1979)
Staggering Toward Modern Times: The Video Art
of Max Almy
DeniJe Man n
Max Almy’s video art moves from the highly personal, low-tech, black and
white multi-monitor performance piece to that of the multi-layered...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
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Diversity Times Three:
The “Modern Family Effect”
and the Privatization of Diversity
Douglas S. Ishii
Modern Family, a half- hour mockumentary sitcom that premiered
in September 2009 on ABC, has given rise to what has been called
the “Modern Family effect.”1 Modern Family...
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in Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2022
Figure 1. Qajar Hot Girls, Tehran Times , 2018, Instagram page, accessed 17 December 2018. https://www.instagram.com/p/BneA45eFDVY/
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 165–186.
Published: 01 September 2024
...) by Maha Haj (Palestine, 2020), the lockdown stimulated a collision between the past and the present with ongoing, and at times increased, restrictions on movement and memory work in the West Bank. In each piece, the unhomely is presented uniquely, but the subject matter — memory, the occupation...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 131–159.
Published: 01 May 2010
... specifically on JenniCam and the LiveJournal community “exhibitionism_2,” as well as more broadly on the ways in which the Internet reconfigures psychic and archival structures. Such developments draw mediated scopophilia ever closer to the domain of archival knowledge, while at the same time unsettling...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 95–135.
Published: 01 December 2011
... to transcend it — as if “time capsules” without a destination. An exemplar of the penchant for “dated sexuality,” filmmaker Anna Biller restages the profilmic universe of the sexploitation oeuvre in her film Viva (2007). Viva 's narrative of two women's entrance into the sexual revolution and its meticulous...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2016
...the Camera Obscura collective In honor of the journal's fortieth anniversary, this special issue of Camera Obscura considers theories and practices of collectivity. Camera Obscura has operated through a feminist editorial collective since its beginnings in the 1970s, a time when many forms...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2016
...the Camera Obscura collective In honor of the journal's fortieth anniversary, this special issue of Camera Obscura considers theories and practices of collectivity. Camera Obscura has operated through a feminist editorial collective since its beginnings in the 1970s, a time when many forms...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 60–87.
Published: 01 December 2020
... important form found in Five Year Diary , that of work located in the domestic realm. Presented in a decidedly different register of repetition, one rooted in joy, Robertson’s time-lapse and stop-motion sequences record her efforts at cooking and cleaning, relying on time-lapse’s transformative quality...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 149–175.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Anne-Charlotte Mecklenburg Abstract The English/Irish boy band One Direction (2010–16) was one of the first major artists to capitalize on social media's potential for building and maintaining a dedicated fan base over time. The One Direction fandom was particularly pervasive on the blogging site...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 87–107.
Published: 01 May 2021
... characteristic blend of documentary and fiction and to navigate the intimately personal with the historical scope of the time. The resulting impression of “empathetic reciprocity” signals a core belief of Varda's in that the artwork (or film, or installation) is an occasion for conversation, for sharing...
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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 (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 81–109.
Published: 01 December 2008
... Sensibility is revealing of a broader set of contradictions operating in art and visual culture at the time around the production and reception of female sexual (self-)representation. Camera Obscura 2008 Susan Richmond is an assistant professor of art history in the School of Art and Design, Georgia...
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