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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 157–191.
Published: 01 May 2012
... overlooked, the controversial 1991 film María Antonia (Cuba), by Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sergio Giral. In this article, I first follow the transatlantic figure of Carmen from Spain to Spanish America, sharing unexpected Creole connections between Cuba and the original works of Carmen that emerged in the course...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 69–103.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... Banks and the Mary Poppins suffrage subplot might be more productively understood as offering an ambivalent—even anti-suffrage—representation of the Anglo-American suffragette. Copyright © 2018 Camera Obscura 2018 Mary Poppins transatlantic suffrage film postcards feminism women’s...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2015
... University Press, 2009); Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century: The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender (Ashgate, 2012); and Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television (Duke University Press, 2014). She is presently working on a monograph titled...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 11–39.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., Pregnant episode of The Test, prod. Stage 29 Productions, syndicated, 23 September 2013. 19. Laurie Ouellette, It s Not TV, It s Birth Control : Reality Television and the Problem of Teenage Pregnancy, in 34 Camera Obscura Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 173–197.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... As he writes, “Black fungibility . . . is the product of the originary violence of transatlantic slavery. . . . This very malleability, or ‘fungibility,’ as an ontological fact of blackness, positions the Black body as an abstraction upon and through which the desires, feelings and ideas of others...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 73–101.
Published: 01 September 2007
...
to translate into commercial success in the US. Even so, Baker
became an iconic international figure, la Joséphine or la Baker,
moving through the transatlantic cultural circuits that helped
define popular female stage and screen performers in the early
twentieth century, a time when...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2016
... is a PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine, where she is completing a dissertation on ventriloquism in contemporary transatlantic popular culture. Her writing on art, film, and media has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, In These Times, Public Books, Sounding Out...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 35–79.
Published: 01 December 2008
....
By now it should be clear that the gold that sheaths Baker’s
body in the film operates as a cipher and as a citation: not only of
the currency of European civilized refinement but also of the dis-
courses of psychoanalysis on fetishism, the history of “black gold”
in the transatlantic slave...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 101–127.
Published: 01 May 2015
...
1. See Amanda Ann Klein, “Abject Femininity and Compulsory
Masculinity on Jersey Shore,” in Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and
Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television, ed. Brenda R. Weber
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014), 149 – 69.
2. “Barbara Walters Presents...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., Reality TV and the Gendered Politics of Flaunting, in Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television, ed. Brenda R. Weber (Durham, NC: Duke 150 Camera Obscura University Press, 2014), 54 75. See also José Esteban Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 7–33.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., Green is nervous, like some of the other guests, but also subservient (quite literally), perhaps even submissive. His voice has that transatlantic singsong quality of a Hitchcock heroine. Fast forward to the library. The guests have all arrived and are milling around with their elegant crystal...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 71–99.
Published: 01 May 2015
... • Camera Obscura
Cosmetic Culture (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
2007); and Brenda R. Weber, ed., Reality Gendervision: Sexuality
and Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2014).
36. Robin Room, “The Cultural Framing...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 177–207.
Published: 01 May 2009
... is produced,” a collection of techniques that create certain
people as “things.”13
Scholars of the history of race generally argue that the
advent of the transatlantic slave trade originated the modern sys-
tem of racial meaning, one that has enacted (and continues to
enact) ideological...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 65–93.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., to New York City before his transatlantic passage to
London in 1966 becomes a way to conceptualize diaspora, much
like the image of the ship that Gilroy summons in The Black Atlan-
tic: Modernity and Double Consciousness as a symbol of the transatlan-
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tic circulation...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of the interwar period—for the future iconography of
the audiovisual discourse of world health—was the technological
inauguration of the “Air Age.” Charles Lindbergh became an
international hero when he completed the first solo transatlantic
air passage in 1927, the first international airport...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 73–109.
Published: 01 December 2009
... Reproductions: Genealogies of Race
and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2004), 5.
4. Etienne Balibar, The Philosophy of Marx, trans. Chris Turner
(London: Verso, 2007), 23; emphasis original.
5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Marx...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 1–43.
Published: 01 September 2013
... such
as the silhouette — just as, in Baucom’s theorization, the Long
Twentieth Century indicates the cycle of capital that begins with
the fnancial revolution facilitated by the transatlantic slave
trade. I further explore the idea of race as a form of appearance
of capital and photography...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 149–183.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of this
figure, see Kimberly Snyder Manganelli,Transatlantic Spectacles of
Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse (New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 2012).
5. See Toni Cade Bambara, “Reading the Signs, Empowering the
Eye: Daughters of the Dust and the Black Independent...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 143–179.
Published: 01 May 2001
... Society, in order to make specific a larger ges-
ture toward US popular culture within the space of the banlieue
and in French urban film. This transatlantic circulation is related
both to a shift toward the popular as site of interrogation, as Hall...
