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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 42–74.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Jodi Dean Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 Swamp Gas by Jeffrey Westover, 1997. Courtesy of the artist.
The Truth is Out There: Aliens and the
Fugitivity of Postmodern Truth
Jodi Dean
Arrival
Aliens have invaded the United States. They swarmed over...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (1 (37)): 124–154.
Published: 01 January 1996
...John Michael Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1996
Science Friction and Cultural Studies:
Intellectuals, Interdisciplinarity, and
the Profession of Truth
John Michael
Albert Einstein Meets the Nutty Professor
The recent "science wars" between...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 151–159.
Published: 01 May 2008
.... Vaginal Davis’s Gospel Truths
Marc Siegel
A number of years ago, while in Los Angeles to pack up my stor
age unit and complete my move to Berlin, I attended a small con
ference on queer perspectives on Andy Warhol at the California
Museum of Photography at the University of California...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., a return to Austinian speech-act theory reminds us that the performative act strives to make real what is not yet real, to conjure forth and to confirm a new reality. In other words, the performative seeks to essentialize, to assert new truths at the level of the self and make them stick. In Hammer's films...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 105–129.
Published: 01 September 2024
... a compelling argument against the excavation of so-called deeper meaning; however, its claims to objective truthfulness cannot adequately account for the multiplicity of the surface itself — that which ultimately resists the stability that proponents claim it confirms. Instead, as I will argue, we might turn...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 29–67.
Published: 01 May 2010
... that “conducts dehumanizing norms” and a frame that might be capable of questioning these very norms to open up our seeing and knowledge to elusive and contingent truths that lie beyond the frame's limits. The photos of Abu Ghraib pointed to, and were often evidence themselves of, crimes...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 73–109.
Published: 01 December 2009
... unique means of producing the truth about race. Camera Obscura 2009 Zahid R. Chaudhary is an assistant professor of English at Princeton University. He has published articles on visual culture and postcolonial theory, and he is currently completing a manuscript on colonial photography in India...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., and larger American historical events, Bechdel's novel deals with themes of trauma, memory, and historical narrative. The novel has been embraced for the queer way in which it approaches her family archive — it refuses to settle on one understanding of the truth of Bechdel's father, his sexuality...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 99–125.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in the crematoria. Simultaneously, it radically re-genders an exceptional survival scene recorded as autobiographical truth by witness testimony. A young Hungarian girl's survival of a Zyklon B gassing became exceptional among other incidents of survival in Auschwitz-Birkenau due to the medical assistance offered...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 175–183.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Soyoung Yoon Abstract This essay attends to the force of aggression in Carolee Schneemann's work, emphasizing the conflicts in the artist's representation of enjoyment, knowledge, and truth in her own body, with a focus on Up To and Including Her Limits (1973–76) and the underexplored text “Anti...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Lisa Nakamura Images of biometric screens are becoming increasingly common in television and film, particularly in genres such as police procedurals, “terror” television programs, and medical dramas. Digital surveillant screens establish and produce authority and scientific truths about national...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 77–107.
Published: 01 May 2020
... society; and the necropolitical function of the killing fields as “truth spaces.” Female testimony, putting forth necrophagic ethics, ultimately becomes the foundation of traumatic history. The conclusion suggests that these intense, embodied first-generation memories resist remembering and instead...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 93–127.
Published: 01 May 2017
... truth” in Les enfants du paradis
(Children of Paradise, dir. Marcel Carné, France, 1945)
A Strange Child of Paradise:
The Artistry of Arletty’s “Self”
in Les enfants du paradis
Hervé Picherit
“Un drôle d’enfant du paradis” (“A Strange Child of Paradise
this is the evocative title...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 75–102.
Published: 01 May 1997
... of The X-Files are con-
fronted by the paradoxical mantras of post-Watergate consciousness:
white capital letters appear against menacing backgrounds warning us
to “Trust No One” and declaring that “The Truth Is Out There.” The
episodes that follow these injunctions fascinate us not because we...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., and the back alleys of Chinatowns in
noir films, all of which evoke exoticism, provoke curiosity, and draw
characters and viewers into a search for the truth behind the fasci-
nating surface. This search, however, deadlocks the narrative logic,
thereby suggesting the convoluted enigma of Western...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 57–91.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of deception, though a more complicated
one. The resemblance between this scene and that of the earlier
forgery is obvious. We have here, however, a double forgery. First,
Joan, as she herself will admit later, is lying to save her own life.
Insofar as her signature is meant as a token for her truthfulness...
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 33–59.
Published: 01 December 1982
....)
The interviews with the children are prefaced by titles which are
also seen interspersed throughout, commenting with various degrees
of directness on the image: DARK CHEMISTRY, TRUTH, TELE-
VISION, STORY, YOU, LIGHT, PHYSICS (the most frequently
recurring titles are TRUTH...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
... salient.23 Cheryl’s project within the film is a
documentary seeking to find out the “truth” about a black woman
hidden within and by film history, a project thus referencing rec-
ognizable forms of feminist historiography. The Watermelon Woman
highlights the kind of speaking/filming positions...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 195–225.
Published: 01 December 2001
... theories and political innuendo. It appears to be self-con-
sciously aware both of its own historical material and the compli-
cated nature of history itself. Slogans like “The truth is out there”
are counteracted by “Trust no one,” so that trust and truth...
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 54–89.
Published: 01 December 1980
..., “the$zantay*of the Pirate.” From the beginning, then, the
principal hermeneutic system of the film is merged-through this view
and this voice-with the enunciation and depiction of desire. And here
the feminine voice is tied to the condition of truth in a movement
which attempts to search out...
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