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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Victor Fan This article studies the success of the Twilight franchise in relation to the stardom of Robert Pattinson by proposing a model of interpretation called “the poetics of addiction.” The term addiction is used in this essay not as a top-down form of dependency but as a multilateral...
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In the Twilight of Modernity and the Silent Film: Irie Takako in The Water Magician
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 91–127.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Tanaka's Acting in Mizoguchi Films,” was published in Screening the Past . Shiraito (Irie Takako) looks at her absent lover’s desk in
The Water Magician (dir. Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan, 1933).
Courtesy Tokyo National Film Center
In the Twilight of Modernity
and the Silent Film: Irie Takako...
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Sitting Closer to the Screen: Early Televisual Address, the Unsettling of the Domestic Sphere, and Close Reading Historical TV
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 31–61.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and the private sphere of the home. These newly blurred boundaries had profound implications for postwar conceptions of gender, home, and family. Through both form and content, programs as wide-ranging as the science-fiction anthology The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959–64) and domestic sitcoms The George Burns...
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Watching Women: Surveillance and Spectatorship in Early Science Fiction Television
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 35–61.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of television's visuality and liveness to impose visibility on its viewers. Early episodes of Tales of Tomorrow , The Twilight Zone , and The Outer Limits expose anxieties about the power of television as a surveillance mechanism to enact control over audiences. Formally and narratively, these episodes complicate...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2. Beleaguered husband Joe Britt watches his wife nagging him when his past and future life is magically broadcast on TV. “What's in the Box,” season 5, episode 24 of The Twilight Zone , dir. Richard L. Bare, writ. Martin Goldsmith and Rod Serling, CBS, aired 13 March 1964.
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“Little girls and the things that they love”: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , Audience, Identity, and the Privilege of Contemporary Fan Culture
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and their fondness for particular
characters.39
A fundamental aspect of MLPFIM that secures its status as
women’s culture is its emphasis on a “loyal community of females”
constituted by the main six ponies: Twilight Sparkle, Apple Jack,
Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash.40 As Robert...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 181–183.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., and
Interregional Business Relations in the Twilight Series. No. 79:
31 – 67
Peter X Feng
Tongue Twisters: The Travelogue Videos of Ming-Yuen S. Ma. No. 79:
pp. 69 – 95
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Road Movie: Notes from the Field. No. 80: pp. 165 – 175
Jennifer Fleeger
Deanna Durbin and the Mismatched...
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Whatever Happened to Janet Wood? Women Story Editors in 1950s Television
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 127–155.
Published: 01 December 2019
... in industry literature. That said, I have referred to individual story and script editors according to how they are credited, and, whenever possible, I have given additional detail about their responsibilities at work. 132 Camera Obscura 3. While some of those we now call showrunners The Twilight Zone...
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Watching Women's Films
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 153–162.
Published: 01 December 2009
... by, commercial forms.
Of course theatrical release remains the goal for feature
filmmakers (often even for documentarians), and for independent
filmmakers it may be a receding one. In 2008, erstwhile indie Cath-
erine Hardwicke’s Twilight (US) broke the box-office record for
opening-weekend...
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“Becoming-Girl” in the New Russian Cinema: Youth and Valeria Gai Germanika's Films and Television
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 59–79.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and Angelina
Nikonova (Twilight Portrait [Portret v sumerkakh, 2011 Working
within the male-dominated Russian film industry, these young
female directors often follow production, distribution, and exhi-
bition routes that are characteristic of low-budget film and tele-
vision production...
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Is Film Theory Queer Theory? Or, Everything I Know about Queerness I Learned at the Movies
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2013
...
the twilight zone of connotation” (xii). Doty insists, as Wood had
insisted two decades before him, that queerness is less “in” texts
than in the reception and production of texts, in the “cultural and
erotic investments” of certain communities of viewers.7
Wood’s and Doty’s “low” archives...
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“All Your Faves Are Problematic”: The Performative Spectatorship of Drunk Feminist Films
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 149–159.
Published: 01 September 2022
... viewing Twilight (dir. Catherine Hardwicke, US, 2008), one drinks every time Edward (Robert Pattinson) stalks, demeans, or gaslights his girlfriend, Bella (Kristen Stewart); in Love Actually , drinking is encouraged during any instance of workplace sexual harassment; in Bring It On (dir. Peyton Reed...
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Melodrama's Other: Entrapment and Escape in the Films of Tom Tykwer
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 108–143.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Cinema modernist avant-garde with a deconstruction of and
departure from history-laden tropes.18
In Twilight Memories, Andreas Huyssen argues that sig-
nificant post-1960 German-language literature is simultaneously
cynical and resistant, nostalgic and utopian, but always contains...
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Deaf Ears and Dark Continents: Dorothy Richardson's Cinematic Epistemology
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 4–33.
Published: 01 May 1992
... prove
to be a last embrace, we entered the familiar twilight: the softly-gilded
interior twilight, the shared, living quietude, still fresh and morning-new in
their strange power . . . . We might be about to enter a new kingdom.
Curiosity joined battle...
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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
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As a child, I nursed a potent fantasy that I could have an entire
doll city to play with, to see at once, and to imagine that I lived in.
I drew maps of it and countless pictures of its various neighbor-
hoods, always seen from a bird’s-eye view, always at twilight, when
lights from the various doors...
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Let Them Wear Manolos: Fashion, Walter Benjamin, and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2011
...), and
Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, US, 2003; and Twilight, US, 2008),
have also enjoyed varying degrees of success as directors and
writers in recent years, Coppola’s prominence has been the most
sustained. Hardwicke’s story is, perhaps, indicative of the problems
faced by women...
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Domestic Violence and the Aetiology of Crime in Americas Most Wanted
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 96–119.
Published: 01 May 1993
...,
newscast, and police drama, invites its viewers to assist the police in
the capture of dangerous criminals by calling in to the studio with their
tips. Launched by the new Fox network in the twilight of the Reagan
administration, AmericaS Most Wanted coincided with the emergence
of the family...
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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
... with the Xtravaganzas returning to New York City from Washington, DC. It is twilight hours, and the camera roams about the bus. Venus Xtravaganza lies sprawled out, thick blonde hair cascading onto her partner seated beside her. An unidentified blonde woman rests her head on Angie's shoulder, fast asleep, as Angie...
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Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes, Postfeminism, and the Birth of Social Networking Technologies
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Printing Office, 1994).
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9. See Lisa Duggan, The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural
Politics, and the Attack on Democracy (Boston: Beacon, 2003); and
McRobbie, Aftermath of Feminism.
10. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia...
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“They Can't Do This to Us !”: Alan Alda as (Anti)Feminist Signifier
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 35–61.
Published: 01 December 2011
.../toc.php5?review=546.
38. Sam Fussell, “Bodybuilder Americanus,” Michigan Quarterly
Review 32, no. 4 (1993): abstract.
39. Charlotte Allen, “Twilight of the CEO’s Day,” Los Angeles Times,
22 September 2002.
40. There are literally thousands of examples; a simple Internet...
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