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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 29–67.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Linda Williams This essay's point of departure is the question of how images of death and torture are literally and metaphorically framed by the people who take them and how they are further received by the publics who see them. Beginning with a comparison of two digital headshots of an Arab enemy...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 99–125.
Published: 01 September 2021
... uniquely misplaced onto a woman tortured by the Gestapo and hanged without having betrayed her accomplices. While Son of Saul offers its own remarkably successful solutions and modes of cinematic transcendence portraying the ultimate sites of extermination, it does not convey an adequate understanding...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 33–59.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Jacob Myers Abstract Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite (Ireland/UK/US, 2018) centers Queen Anne's torturous relationship with two women administrators, seeming to promise clarity about the monarch's sexual history. Instead, the film obliquely addresses British state history while the camera's gaze...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
... terrorists and counterterrorists in America. Furthermore,
these narratives both rely on and revel in media technologies for
their production of politics, pleasures, and even populations. That
is, in these programs the horror of witnessing torture perpetrated
both by and on American bodies, as well...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 75–103.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of the hidden interior of things, a knowledge at once
enabled and thwarted by the violent penetration of the body by
the gaze.
In this sense, then, the body as object of speculative inquiry
is a site of paradox. In his concise tracing of changing attitudes
toward the judicial use of torture from...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 139–159.
Published: 01 May 2020
... associated with unacknowledged and perverse forms of trauma, such as Sigmund Freud identi- fied as the compulsive return to a lost object, reenacting the figure of the loss as an act of melancholia and self- torture.8 Much like the nineteenth- century Gothic, the deindustrialized landscape in hor- ror may...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 6–30.
Published: 01 January 1996
... that psychoanalysis is possible" (214). But, he admonishes his audi-
ence, "You ought to have essential things to say-and to do-on the matter
of torture" (217).
Apparently, however, Argentinian analysts (who would not have been
able to attend the 1981 conference) have had much to say and do...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 33–59.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and they start to yell. It is almost as if the exposure of Mia's travestismo incites the male desire to turn her body into a corpse. Quoting Salamon, one could say that, in the scene of Mia's torture, her travesti “walk is treated as if it were aggression itself.” 22 Loxoro makes evident that the attack...
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Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 159–166.
Published: 01 January 1990
..., and fiction and reality.
Liicia Murat’s film, How Nice to See You Alive (1989, Brazil), is
also centrally concerned with the relationships between fiction and
reality, and memory and history. Combining video interviews with
women who were tortured under Brazil’s...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 119–129.
Published: 01 December 2003
... into her
shirt (Eels, 2001). The concept of “passionate interaction” per-
Interview with Patty Chang • 121
verts and troubles the lines between ecstasy and torture, and
between desire and anxiety. Chang has the ability to find the
exact line at which discomfort...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 63–91.
Published: 01 May 2017
... characterized by the suspension of time and activity in the
service of securing pleasures that may or may not be conferred
by the other. The issue of who is in control of these situations is
complex; while the “victim” of masochism is at the mercy of the
“torturer,” Deleuze reminds us...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 169–179.
Published: 01 December 2012
... variants commit crimes
in Vietnam and other places every day, crimes and torture against
mankind. Experimental underground cinema dreams to stand in
rebellion against cine- imperialism, but they are following “operation
eagle,” aggression choosing to carry guns and owers.17
In other words...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 66–83.
Published: 01 September 1995
..., and political forces that inform them.
In AccusedlBZowtorchlPadlock ( 1986), Pat Ward Williams uses re-
productions of a “found” photograph combined with her own script
in chalk. This documentary image of torture and murder is evidence
of the socioeconomic relations in which events like...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., US, 1997). Conversely, it is now commonly known that white women play lead roles in military operations involving rendition and torture. Gina Haspel, a career CIA agent and referred to as queen of torture, played a leading role in the agency s program of torture, kidnapping, and forced...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 161–183.
Published: 01 September 2009
... criti-
cally engages with such images and actions, presenting a perverted
world analogous to the psychological interior of a tortured man
consumed by bitterness, resentment, and conflicting feelings of
love and hatred toward a woman whose life he felt forced to end.
Crucial to either...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 99–117.
Published: 01 December 2003
...-
lation across Abramovic´’s works of torturous acts in which the
body is submitted to pain. One lies in shamanistic ritual and tran-
scendence of the body as derived from religious practices, partic-
ularly eastern religions. This is the explanation repeatedly offered
by the artist. She wants the mind...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 157–187.
Published: 01 May 2003
.... Male characters have under-
gone torture and endured pain for their beliefs, their country,
their honor, their women, their family, and their friends since
films began to tell stories.1 In a narrative model familiar to movie-
goers, protagonists suffer physical and emotional setbacks before...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 71–103.
Published: 01 May 2006
... and written representations of abuse
and torture. Images such as “Scourged Back” (figure 3) provided
Northerners with a firsthand look at the violent effects of slavery.
The widely reproduced photograph of Gordon, an escaped slave,
spoke volumes. The image pictured a history of violence written...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 77–107.
Published: 01 May 2020
... it engendered has been gradually recognized as official KR policy. I claim that it differs from all other documented crimes of sexual violence related to conflict, war, ethnic cleansing, or genocide, such as sexual torture and mutilation; forced pregnancy, abortion, and prostitution; sexual slavery; and rape.11...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2008
... in the 1990s) to
the “tendency of Hollywood action cinema towards the construc-
tion of the male body as spectacle,” a spectacle that is often built
on scenes of sadistic torture.13 Such scenes provide a convenient
excuse for the display of the male body (they work neatly within
the diegesis as proof...
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