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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 77–105.
Published: 01 December 2023
... as healing, an erotic reimagining of one of the most hurtful tropes of trans representation: the scene of the reveal. The reveal refers to the much-repeated moment in film or television where a trans character's transness is revealed to another character or the audience, often to a reaction of shock...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2020
... about a trans identity that was not his own and that he did not know would become his own. In his story, and in queer theory s empha- Epistemology of the Answering Machine 27 ses on desire, change, and trespass more broadly, I find lessons for how to think and write judiciously about those aspects...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 149–175.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Camera Obscura 2024 trans theory speedrunning videogames temporality mundanity The timer changes from green to red as I fail another jump. Spyro bonks his head into the wall, and I watch him plummet to the ground. I am performing an Any...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to the representational rupture the show is widely held to constitute. 1 Given the overrepresentation of whiteness in narratives of queerness and transness onscreen, the mere fact of a television show premiering on FX that features a cast made up almost entirely of black and brown trans women is indeed an event...
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 107–109.
Published: 01 December 1984
.... “For a Pseudo-Theory,” trans. Moshe Ron, Yale French Studies, no. 52 (1775), pp. 115-127. “The Tooth, the Palm,” trans. Anne Knap and Michel Benarnou, Sub- Stance, no. 15 (1976), pp. 105-110. ‘The Unconscious as Mise-en-scene,” trans. Joseph Maier, in Pe7-fomance...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 103–123.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and political theory by suggesting that the state of theory today is plagued by a form of autoimmune disorder. That is to say, certain kinds of cultural and political theory confront themselves as enemies, as something that should be attacked. With reference to the work of Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 1–41.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., Others (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007). 18. Hugo Münsterberg, The Film: A Psychological Study (New York: Dover, 1970), 62. 19. Jacques Aumont, “The Face in Close-Up,” in The Visual Turn: Classical Film Theory and Art History, ed. Angela dalle Vacche, trans...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
Published: 01 December 2016
... with the processes of trans-subjectivity. She teaches art theory and media studies courses at various universities in southern California, and she is the managing editor of Legende Journal ( www.legendejournal.org ). © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 creative collaboration social media trans-subjectivity...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 129–155.
Published: 01 May 2024
... family-making. This reading draws on the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, applying her analytic framework of binaristic formations to the film. In so doing, a series of dyads emerge—feminist/misogynist, feminist/queer, trans/cis, queer/heteronormative, masculine/feminine, passive/active, hard/soft...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Fiona I. B. Ngô This essay explores how visibility and sight, but also invisibility and blindness, inform the production of knowledge about subjectivity and subjection in critical refugee studies. I consider Ekleipsis , by the Vietnamese American filmmaker Tran T. Kim-Trang from the Blindness...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 138–149.
Published: 01 January 1990
... of essays in the anthology and circulate around the following terms: subjectivity, resistance, specificity, plurality, and ethics. To begin with, Feminism and Foucault criticizes totalizing theories of the subject and several authors attempt to revise Foucault’s notion...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 131–159.
Published: 01 May 2010
...  –  228. 8. Virilio, “Visual Crash,” 109, 111. 9. Ursula Frohne, “ ‘Screen Tests’: Media Narcissism, Theatricality, and the Internalized Observer,” in CTRL [SPACE], 271. 10. Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, trans. James Strachey (1962; New York: Basic Books...
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 100–110.
Published: 01 September 1980
...- companied by the final tragic notes of La Bohhe-no laughing matter unless we consider it as a literalization of Mimi’s absence. Such a literal use of post-Structuralist theory would certainly be laughable. The last laugh, also in sync sound, occurs towards the end of the film, following Laffont’s...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 99–131.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Institution Archives, Palo Alto, California. 55. Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-­Girl, trans. Arianna Reines (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2012), 126, 15. There is insufficient space to work through the vexed gender-­theoretical implications of Tiqqun’s text...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 111–135.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of their transformative and even redemptive possibilities.34 Notes 1. Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics, trans. E. B. Ashton (New York: Continuum, 1973); Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, ed. Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann, trans. and ed. Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 101–141.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in Archaic Societies, trans. Ian Cunnison (London: Routledge, 1954); Deleuze, Cinema 1, 203. Vertigo and History of Film Theory  •  135 14. Deleuze, Cinema 1, 201 – 3. 15. Kofman, The Enigma of Woman; Modleski, The Women Who Knew Too Much; Samuels...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 218–219.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., Classic Whiteness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Chion, Michel. Kubrick’s Cinema Odyssey. Trans. Claudia Gorbman. London: British Film Institute, 2001. CineAction 54. Toronto: CineAction Collective, 2001. Focus 21. Santa Barbara, CA: Wilson Printing, 2001. Givanni...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 33–59.
Published: 01 December 2021
... (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), 185. 2. Dora Silva Santana, “ Mais Viva! Reassembling Transness, Blackness, and Feminism,” TSQ 6, no. 2 (2019): 212. 3. Eric Plemons, The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans-Medicine (Durham, NC: Duke...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 191–217.
Published: 01 September 2002
... that cinematic identification offers possibilities for subjective trans- corporations. In looking to identification for its progressive potential, Silverman asserts her project against another tradition in film theory, particularly in feminist film theory, that, as in the case of Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 120–126.
Published: 01 September 1988
... explicit at the end of the second volume, this approach is in fact in operation through the whole of the work: it is neither a question of applying a philosophical theory to cinema, nor even of constructing a new theory for the cinema, but rather of thinking with this object, working at one...