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Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 131–162.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Julia Leyda; Nicole Seymour Abstract This article outlines a theory of aromantic and asexual film aesthetics exemplified in a reading of the surrogacy comedy Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021). Contextualizing this analysis within the long genre history of the romantic comedy...
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> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1. The publicity poster for the film Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021) showcases the two protagonists sitting against a blue-green background stippled with paint swatches.
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Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure in Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 30–49.
Published: 01 September 1999
...Rey Chow Copyright © 1999 by Indiana University Press 1999
Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure In
Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together
Rey Chow
In one of the earliest discussions of poststrueturalism to appear in
English, "Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness...
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Together Apart: FemTechNet and Feminist Online Collectives
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 133–139.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Obscura 2016 FemTechNet cyberfeminism remote collaboration digital labor Figure 1. Duenya Hassan, FemTechNet student work
IN PRACTICE
Together Apart:
FemTechNet and Feminist
Online Collectives
Elizabeth Losh
FemTechNet was founded...
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Anna and Matt lie together in the dark as she offers to let him feel the ba...
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 5. Anna and Matt lie together in the dark as she offers to let him feel the baby moving, sharing their strong feelings of friendship for one another. Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021)
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Although not in the same space, the film frequently shoots Matt and Anna in...
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 3. Although not in the same space, the film frequently shoots Matt and Anna in ways that destabilize that fact. Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021)
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Matt wears a nursing device, mimes feeding a stuffed bunny, and smiles emot...
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 2. Matt wears a nursing device, mimes feeding a stuffed bunny, and smiles emotionally at his reflection in the mirror. Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021)
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The film closes on a long take of Anna smiling and crying, having just deli...
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 6. The film closes on a long take of Anna smiling and crying, having just delivered the baby, with Matt off-screen. Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021)
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Interfaces of Identity: Oriental Traitors and Telematic Profiling in 24
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and database matching. These techniques of facial recognition evident in film and television programs relating to the recognition of the pathologized body, the terrorist body, and the racialized body bring together modes of seeing that transfer the work of profiling racialization onto seemingly neutral new...
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Seeing in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Sam McBean Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel, Fun Home (2006), intricately weaves together the author's coming-out story with her family's history, particularly the story of her father's closeted queer sexuality and possible suicide. In its exploration of family history, queer desires...
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Queer/Palestinian Cinema: A Critical Conversation on Palestinian Queer and Women's Filmmaking
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Strategies in Palestinian Queer and Women's Filmmaking” uniquely focused on questions of queerness and Palestine through a program of eight new Palestinian visual productions. The program brought together Palestinian film scholars, filmmakers, visual artists, and curators for a discussion of queer...
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Gentlemen Prefer Hercules: Desire | Identification | Beefcake
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2008
... bodies are constantly on display and evidently eroticized. The beefcake on display in the peplum is clearly not meant for a straight female audience (the films are rarely more than a series of demonstrations of violent physical strength, often haphazardly strung together), and the films were too widely...
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The Documentaries of Kim Longinotto: Women, Change, and Painful Modernity
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 43–75.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of modernity and traditional or religious law, this essay argues that Longinotto frames the women not as “primitive others” but as entrenched in the complex paradigms of modernity. Moreover, the four documentaries under consideration weave together the activities of expressing pain or witnessing the pain...
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Performing Essentialism: Reassessing Barbara Hammer's Films of the 1970s
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
Published: 01 December 2012
... together a wide range of genders and bodies on-screen, all the while showing profound love and respect for the 1970s feminist legacy. The article takes this new queer work as an invitation and a provocation to reassess Barbara Hammer's short experimental films of the 1970s and the larger cultural-feminist...
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Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupac's Live Performance at Coachella
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 29–53.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and archive, and death and the image. This essay traces the ghostliness of entertainers speaking from beyond the grave and the new interpretive problems that come to the fore when the performance is “live” but the performer isn't. Bringing together star discourse, media ontology, and sound studies...
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Occult Anxieties and the Recessionary Imaginary in the Paranormal Activity Franchise
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
... aesthetic works together with the spatial dimensions of McMansions (single-family houses characterized by massive square footage totals) to generate a sense of fear with particular resonance for a contemporary culture characterized by financial speculation, increased privatization, and retrenchment...
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Close-Ups and Curlicues: Female Neurosis in Two Films by Anatole Litvak
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 93–127.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and brings it closer to the subject, who experiences its closeness as enigmatic or distressing. By bringing things closer, however, it also brings them closer together, compacting them into strange and novel figures. Magnification has its cinematic analogue in the close-up, while compaction can be visually...
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Collectivity: Part 2
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2016
... analyses and short-form reflections—that address such topics as collaboration in photography, cinema, and video; utopias and dystopias; history and memory; modes of singleness and of togetherness; technology, embodiment, and intimacy; and feminist and queer collective practices in media and activism...
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Creating an Archive of LGBTQ Video Game Content: An Interview with Adrienne Shaw
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 165–173.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... The methodologies of queer game studies are also developing and expanding into new territories. Bringing together close reading, reception studies, and the quantitative tools of social science, Shaw has created the first scholarly database of queer content in video games. With the help of research assistants, Shaw...
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Collectivity: Part 1
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and short-form reflections—that address such topics as collaboration in photography, cinema, and video; utopias and dystopias; history and memory; modes of singleness and of togetherness; technology, embodiment, and intimacy; and feminist and queer collective practices in media and activism in various times...
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