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Regulating Mobility: Technology, Modernity, and Feature-Length Narrativity in Traffic in Souls
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., Picturing the Nation: The Moving Pictures and American Modernity . Traffic in Souls (US, 1913), directed by George Loane Tucker.
Courtesy Library of Congress Motion Picture Reading Room
Regulating Mobility: Technology,
Modernity, and Feature-Length
Narrativity in Traffic in Souls
Kristen...
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Diva Traffic and Male Bonding in Film: Teaching Opera, Learning Gender, Race, and Nation
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 47–73.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... Frank Darabont, US, 1994)
Diva Traffic and Male Bonding
in Film: Teaching Opera,
Learning Gender, Race, and Nation
Charles I. Nero
In the influential Between Men, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick points to
“male homosocial desire” as the potentially erotic “continuum
between homosocial...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of contemporary life, the deployment of coincidence in Talk to Her also presents the negative potential of such enfolding. In contrast to the overt imperative to “talk” in its title, the film in effect uses the narrative logic of melodrama to traffic in secrets and to develop eloquent modes of silence. © 2008...
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Too Close, Too Far: Cultural Composition in Straub and Huillet's Too Early, Too Late
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2003
... Straub and
Danièle Huillet, Germany, 1981) begins with a traveling shot best
described as vertiginous. The shot—more than seven minutes in
duration—is filmed from an automobile driving around the
traffic circle at the Place de la Bastille in Paris. The camera looks
outward; the spectator never sees...
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Male Hysteria and Early Cinema
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (2 (17)): 112–132.
Published: 01 May 1988
... apparatus- changes that are experienced on an individual
scale by the man in the street in big-city traffic, on a historical scale
by every present-day citizen” (250).
These changes were in large part brought about and imposed by the
railroad. But Benjamin’s remarks have a more particular...
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Contributors
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 151.
Published: 01 September 1996
... Studies at San Francisco
State University. His most recent book is Blurred Boundaries (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1994). He has also written on the traffic in African
art for American Anthropologist (99,4), Winter 1997.
Gerald Peary co-edited with Karyn Kay the 1977 pioneering book...
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Disputed Territories: Masculinity and Social Space
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 4–23.
Published: 01 January 1989
...
a truck loading yard, with the camera racing head-on towards enor-
mous tractor-trailers, to culminate in a race against the flow of dense
freeway traffic. We see it from a point of view within the car, and later
shot from above, pulling away in relief, as we gleefully watch the havoc...
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Company Loves Misery
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 58–75.
Published: 01 May 1992
...-is cemented
through the feminized body of romance fiction. Paul Sheldon’s traffic
in Misery novels guarantees his position as an author in the “legiti-
mate” literary marketplace. Of course, this traffic is complicated by
the fact that the feminine is produced or authorized...
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The Intimacies of Globalization: Bodies and Borders On-Screen
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 32–73.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of immigrants and refugees in the global
city, and the underground international traffics in such things as
drugs and organs. Each of these texts uses bodily intimacy as a
metaphorical language through which to represent contestations
of national and ideological borders, as well as a means of liter...
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Glimpsing Angie Xtravaganza: The Trans Latinx Imaginary of Paris Is Burning
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 95–119.
Published: 01 December 2024
... and theatricalized performance vital to the documentary, it traffics in another spectacular currency: the spectacle of tragedy. Tragedy as spectacle abounds, structuring the cohesiveness of the narrative and precipitating its forward progression to the end. Certainly, the novel takes creative license in narrating...
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On the Bubble: The Soap Opera Diva's Ambivalent Orbit
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 103–123.
Published: 01 September 2007
... the
untalented diva as no “real” diva at all and to delimit our theoretical
scrutiny to the kind of performer who embodies both the personal
and the professional traits traditionally associated with the term.
Yet the overwhelming material reality of strikingly variable diva
traffic — and the scant...
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“One Right Guy to Another”: Howard Hawks and Auteur Theory Revisited
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 43–75.
Published: 01 May 2007
...-
gest patriarchy’s privileged relation is a triangular one, in which
an erotically charged rivalry between two men is mediated around
an objectified woman, who plays at best a supporting role (13). The
result is a society predicated on “male traffic in women,” in Claude
Levi-Strauss’s phrase.3...
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Scholarly Critiques and Critiques of Scholarship: The Uses of Remix Video
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 139–146.
Published: 01 September 2011
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academically.
Alexis: Scholarly Vidding?
As a scholar of vidding, I am fascinated by the traffic of vids between aca-
demic and nonacademic spaces. As a vidder, I am also interested in creat-
Scholarly Critiques and Critiques of Scholarship • 141
ing video works that could...
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Pantomimes of Ecstasy: BeautifulAgony.com and the Representation of Pleasure
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 161–195.
Published: 01 May 2010
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networking websites. Taking all of this data together appears to indicate
that there is indeed a trade-off between the two types of sites.12
In other words, as social networking site use goes up, visits to adult
Web sites go down.13 While Tancer chalks up the decline in adult
Web site traffic...
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Blog Ambition: Fashion, Feelings, and the Political Economy of the Digital Raced Body
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
... those that traffic in racial and colonialist fictions
and fantasies, demonstrates that racially sexualized bodies not only
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continue to circulate through the Internet but have proliferated as
a result of it.10
Internet studies have only just begun to focus on blogging...
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5 Minutes to Alexanderplatz
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 76–87.
Published: 01 September 1991
...,
which promoted both nudism and exercise. This movement, which
dates back to the 1920s, was seen as an answer to the decadent western
“traffic” in sex. During the 1980s, “contemporary” photographers,
especially young women, began to photograph nudes, but they had...
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Melodrama, Masculinity, and the Family: thirtysomething as Therapy
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 86–107.
Published: 01 January 1989
... the next, engaged in stereotypical masculine
activities: a rock climber, an air traffic controller, a construction worker.
But the commercial also shows us men’s sensitive sides: closeups of the
rock climber and the air traffic controller, a shot of a man lifting a woman
up and swinging her...
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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
... by the deployment of highly advanced, spectacular sur-
veillance and identification technologies, such as aerial and satel-
lite photography, FRSs, biometrics, frame enhancement technol-
ogy, infrared visioning systems, and extensive databases, and traces
of informational network traffic. The program on which...
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India's Daughter : It Is Time to Retire the Realist Rape Documentary
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 119–143.
Published: 01 September 2023
... employs. Title credits appear over bright but indistinguishable lights over a dark background, and we hear a sound mix of solemn, low-toned music and traffic. A shaky camera shot gives way to a more stable one, and soon the camera racks focus through metal bars to see lights of buses and cars on a Delhi...
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From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of Nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema, 1927-1931
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 193–231.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the linguistic duality of the global/local traffic
accounts for heterogeneous forces within the local beyond the
West/non-West dichotomy.
The third dimension of the vernacular, particularly rel-
evant within the context of modern China, is its close associa-
tion with the May Fourth Vernacular...
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