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John Waters's Vulgarity: Trash Cinema, Serial Mom , and the Politics of Abjection
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): iv–27.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Ashley T. Shelden Abstract This article puts John Waters into conversation with Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan, shedding new light on the political significance of the abject in Waters's trash cinema. The argument focuses on Waters's uses of the abject in both his early “transgressive” films...
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The Turkish Sex Influx: Exploiting Class, Constituting Desire
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Özgür Yaren This article explores trash erotic productions in 1970s Turkish cinema. What was popularly referred to as the “sex influx” ( seks furyası ) was the result of persistent economic and political crises and symptomatic of the ends of certain cultural and economic modes dominant in film...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 180–181.
Published: 01 May 2001
... in Baudelaire’s
Poetry, Truffaut’s Cinema, and Freud’s Psychoanalysis. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Eberwein, Robert. Sex Ed: Film, Video, and the Framework of Desire. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999...
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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
...Jane Feuer This essay attempts to break down a binary opposition between “quality TV” and reality TV, which is usually set up along an axis of distinction based on aesthetic value. That is: HBO dramas are art; reality TV shows are trash. As Misha Kavka writes, “Because reality television is seen...
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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
... media technologies. Technophilic television programs like 24 , which create pleasure out of paranoia and dramas out of identification, employ digital special effects sequences like FRSs to demonstrate the power of both cinema and science to reveal hidden identities. These identities are often racialized...
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How EXPRMNTL Made the Small Coastal Town of Knokke the Scene for Radical Artistic New Waves and Political Sea Changes
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 169–179.
Published: 01 December 2012
...
EXPRMNTL was living proof that the cinema was more resil-
ient and adventurous than its critics.11 In the end, American lms
again ran away with about half of the awards, and yet — due to the
• Camera Obscura
new regulations of the festival — none of the big names won.12 The
jury had decided...
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Nonmaterial Overelaboration: Gender, Casting, and Camouflaged Labor in Pat Rocco's Promotional Travelogue
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 89–117.
Published: 01 September 2023
... In 1974, while reflecting on his contributions to early gay cinema of the previous six years, the pioneering gay filmmaker-activist Pat Rocco boasted that he cast his films with ease: “As far as having problems casting for films, there was never any because it was a matter of ‘Keep them away, brush them...
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Women Filmmakers in West Germany: A Catalog
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 122–152.
Published: 01 December 1980
... liberally subsidizing young filmmakers for
the last ten years) provides publicity and even has programs to stimulate
international distribution for that collective nonentity known here as
New German Cinema. But the proteges are mainly the well-known
directors who already have penetrated the American...
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“Dated Sexuality”: Anna Biller's Viva and the Retrospective Life of Sexploitation Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 95–135.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Elena Gorfinkel American sexploitation cinema of the 1960s and early 1970s has gained a second life in the past two decades through a boom in video and DVD distribution and rerelease, and consequently a new, generationally distinct audience. This article proposes that what appeals to cult audiences...
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A Star Is Porn: Corpulence, Comedy, and the Homosocial Cult of Adult Film Star Ron Jeremy
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 115–147.
Published: 01 December 2002
...Emily Shelton Camera Obscura 2002 Emily Shelton received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago in August 2002; “A Star is Porn” won a 2001 Society for Cinema Studies student writing award. She recently completed a novel, Memphis , based on a 1993 case of child murder...
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A Taste for Shrinking: Movie Miniatures and the Unreal City
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 1–35.
Published: 01 September 2001
... . . .” “LOSMIMILOCOS MAZACOTEYORO-
ROUEST.” “FOOD.” Signs and cinema arcades in The Crow are
stripped of their letters, or they say meaningless things like
“trash.” Eric Draven writes on the pocked concrete of an alley not
a word but the fiery image of a crow. The clues given us in Dark...
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Cinematic Exile: Performing the Foreign Body on Screen in Roman Polanski's The Tenant
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 1–43.
Published: 01 May 2000
... the cultural logic of purity and feminist studies of the body in the contemporary literature and cinema of exile. CO 43-1, 1-43 6/6/00 2:47 PM Page 1
Cinematic Exile: Performing
the Foreign Body on Screen
in Roman Polanski’s The Tenant...
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Autopsy of a Rat: Odd, Sundry Parables of Freddy Lopez, Speedy Gonzales, and Other Chicano/Latino Marionettes Prancing About Our First World Visual Emporiuim
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 187–237.
Published: 01 January 1996
... representations of their own communities. One
has only to remember how Tarzan films, Zulu technicolor extravagan-
zas and blaxploitation feature films, (remarkably enjoying a renaissance
in cinema art houses of late) like Mandingo (1975, directed by Richard
Fleischer...
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In the Shadow
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 1–43.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Alessandra Raengo This essay pursues an understanding of the blackness of black cinema that is unhinged from the body of the maker or the content of the image. It does so by reading blackness through the visual paradigm of the shadow — that is, as a blackness that cannot, other than ideologically...
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Hip-Hop Cinema in France
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 77–97.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of film theory. For the past eight years she has been an editor of iris . She also serves as the French correspondent for the International Forum of Young Cinema at the Berlin Film Festival. 03-Bluher.sh 5/29/01 12:38 PM Page iv
Souviens-toi-de moi [Remember Me] (1995/96...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 1–21.
Published: 01 December 2004
... in the cinema, psychoanalytic theory, television, and sexual and racial difference in film. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Brian Slade/Maxwell Demon in
Velvet Goldmine (UK/US, 1998). Courtesy Miramax
Pathos and Pathology:
The Cinema of Todd Haynes
Mary Ann Doane
Because infinity—for the eye—begins...
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Varda's Third Life
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 187–213.
Published: 01 May 2021
... up and expand on her lifelong passion for still and moving images, painting, photography, and cinema. The author also shows how Varda has rethought and reworked certain subjects that mattered to her throughout her career, by means proper to this new medium. Varda always had the gift to give us...
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Masquerading As the American Male in the Fifties: Picnic , William Holden and the Spectacle of Masculinity in Hollywood Film
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 41–72.
Published: 01 September 1991
... 19.3 (Aug. 1957 ): 227 –33. Hansen , Miriam . “Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship.” Cinema Journal 25.4 (Summer 1986 ): 6 –32. Haskell , Molly From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies . New York: Penguin, 1974...
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Against House Arrest: Digital Memory and the Impossible Archive
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 39–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... claim that, as gestures of reinscription rather than of neutral recording, these works not only expand but also confront, disturb, and ultimately reconstitute the memory of cinema we have inherited. Beyond the opposition between continuity and discontinuity, what I propose to call “digital memory...
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Sex Out of Sync: Christmas on Earth 's and Couch 's Queer Sound Tracks
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 45–75.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., their sex, and their sound tracks; it would seem that the footage in both films might have been shown in any order, that anyone on-screen might have sex with anyone else, and that any ambient sound might score any image. In cinema, synchronization takes disparate image and sound tracks and fixes them...
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