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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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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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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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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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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. More
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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 elle flanders Road Movie: Notes from the Field. No. 80: pp. 165 – 175 Jennifer Fleeger Deanna Durbin and the Mismatched...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 1–35.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... 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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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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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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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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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Printing Office, 1994). 172  •  Camera Obscura 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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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...