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Total Recall : Production, Revolution, Simulation-Alienation Effect
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 4–40.
Published: 01 September 1993
...Robert Miklitsch Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
Total Recall: Production, Revolution,
Simulation-Alienation Effect
Robert Miklitsch
The men of Earth came to Mars. They came
because...
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“Quality” Reality and the Bravo Media Reality Series
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 185–195.
Published: 01 May 2015
... to the pleasure of being totally commodified, but this pleasure is certainly not for everyone. Jane Feuer is professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Hollywood Musical (Indiana University Press, 1982) and Seeing through the Eighties: Television...
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Opacities: An Introduction
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 149–153.
Published: 01 September 2016
... as an expansive theory, politics, and aesthetics that works against the totalizing gaze of global surveillance and also demands a place for the nonhuman in feminist and queer thought. Zach Blas is an artist and lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His artwork...
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Adam Harvey's “Anti-Drone” Wear in Three Sites of Opacity
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 175–185.
Published: 01 September 2016
... various appeals to concealment and partial visibility raise critical questions about surveillance logics, technologies, and practices and their appeals to fantasies of total seeing and knowing. This essay is organized into three parts, and each part places Harvey's countersurveillance works...
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Chantal Akerman in London
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 185–195.
Published: 01 May 2019
... Journal . This essay aims to reveal the collaborative nature of the working processes behind this project and the organic manner in which it developed as well as the challenges it posed at a critical time in the artists’ lives. In its totality the project and indeed its process, with its multiplicity...
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“Light Filtering through Those Shutters”: Joyless Street s, Mnemic Symbols, and the Beginnings of Feminist Film Criticism
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 63–95.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... By analyzing Joyless Street through the lens of Close Up , I demonstrate how Bryher and H.D. anticipate the development of trauma theory, which emerged in the early 1990s. Unlike traditional, often totalizing, applications of psychoanalysis (which emphasize notions of spectator desire and lack), the Close Up...
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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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Just Be There: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Surface in Mike Mills's 20th Century Women
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 105–129.
Published: 01 September 2024
... ethical intervention, which resists the possibility of total, appropriative knowledge and coordinates other forms of attention premised on openness and nonmastery instead. The effect of the characters’ orientation toward the audience may in fact be disarming rather than intimate. In an interlude...
FIGURES
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The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 102–110.
Published: 01 September 1983
... consciousness and the process of totalization. Within this
context I propose to explore Jameson's notion of the unconscious and its
relationship to psychoanalytic conceptions of the subject.
The bulk of The Political Unconscious is organized as a history. The
chapters on Balzac...
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The Cinema, Reader of Gilles Deleuze
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 120–126.
Published: 01 September 1988
... conceived, are extensive: the cinema operationalizes
the image of an open totality, at once moving and non-orientatable,
where the temporality that envelopes us offers itself in its doubly
contradictory dimension- incessant flux and instantaneous disjunc•
tion. But in joining Nietzsche and Bergson...
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Is the Gaze Maternal?: E. Ann Kaplan's Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 195–214.
Published: 01 September 1985
.... On the
other hand, we see the very richness of these readings as calling into
question Kaplan’s claim that feminine sexuality is totally colonized by
patriarchal society and its representational forms.
Considering Cukor’s Camille, Kaplan argues that the film illustrates...
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Bodies in Water: Disability Cinemas and Creatures of the Sea
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 115–143.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and regenerating limbs when necessary—that it has “no unity of the living being which unfurls itself towards the outside . . . it is a collective animal.” 14 Its total, seemingly seamless immersion in its environment makes it a particularly compelling subject for phenomenologists; from an ecological perspective...
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This is Not a Textual Analysis (Godard's La Chinoise )
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 131–160.
Published: 01 December 1982
... repetitiveness
if study of the classical cinema is conducted exclusively by means of
a series of film analyses.
Thus the object of the following analysis is a section ofJean-Luc
Godard’s La Chinoise (72 shots lasting a total of 494 seconds).2 It is
not necessary...
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Leaving the 20th Century: Interview with Max Almy
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 18–39.
Published: 01 December 1984
... that video could be used in such a variety of
ways - installations, documentation, video art. Also, because of the
feminist movement, a lot of women were jumping into video. To me, it
seemed like it was more accessible. Traditional TV was totally the
opposite. Network TV and the commercial...
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Mary Ann Doane
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 142–147.
Published: 01 December 1989
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inism. Its emergence was a function of a discursive strategy at a par-
ticular historical moment when reading and readability (as the effects
of textuality) were centrally important issues in the theorization of
film. It is a concept which is totally foreign...
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The Interpellations of Interpolation; or, The Disintegrating Female Musical Body
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 89–111.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and the integrity and consistency of style are the sub-
ject of passionate debate. This is evident not only in the score, but
also in the book: Laurents complained that his book for Gypsy was
“totally inconsistent. The first scene is vaudeville. Then you have
a musical comedy scene. Then an out-and-out farce...
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“Desire Shifts the Differance”: Figural Poetics and Figural Politics in the Film Theory of Marie-Claire Ropars
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 66–85.
Published: 01 December 1984
..., these cineastes search, quite
the contrary, to extend to the maximum the domain of the universe in order to
organize it into a significant totality. . . . [I]t is no longer a question of starting
from a story to put it in images, but starting from sensory appearances to make...
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Show Me Yours: Cyber-Exhibitionism from Perversion to Politics
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 131–159.
Published: 01 May 2010
... reservations about
the inclination here to gloss over technical and social particulari-
ties, enabling the totalizing claim that generalized exhibitionism
provides the libidinal architecture for an intensification of global
surveillance. Exhibitionism iterated as online self-display includes
aspects...
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Yvonne Rainer: Interview
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Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 76–96.
Published: 01 May 1976
... the total relationship between author, viewer
and object as one can. The implication of this is to make the audience
think about, and deal with, and share in the creative process in a different
way than they do where the techniques or structure are totally invisible.
S~ one justification...
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Star Hole (for Courtney Love)
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 154–157.
Published: 01 September 2007
...,
announced as Calamity Jane, strutted out onto the strip club’s stage,
skinny as a rail, undulating, eyes all afire, clad in gold go-go boots
and a tumbling brown wig. As the bisexual Althea Flynt, Love was
a total ham, but she devastated me playing an early 1980s junkie
living with AIDS...
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