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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 179–190.
Published: 01 January 1988
...Ien Ang Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 ." Z Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure: On Janice Radway's Reading the Romance: Women~ Patriarchy and Popular Literature (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 166–173.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Amanda Howell Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Susan Jeffords’s The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989) Amanda Howell We must ask more often how things...
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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 2. ONE Adventure flyer for California State University Long Beach, sociology course screening, 1973. ONE Incorporated Records (Coll2011-001). Courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries More
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 159–191.
Published: 01 December 2008
... muscleman (Hercules, Samson) in a mythical universe of dragons, witches, and evil emperors. This article targets a specific question about these mid-century Italian peplum films: how do they handle the “problem” of their obvious nonheteronormative attractions, well-oiled and nearly naked bodybuilders, whose...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 69–99.
Published: 01 December 2011
... ultimately collude to portray Africa as universally chaotic and Africans as universally oppressed. The filmmakers' good intentions notwithstanding, these two commercially successful films fall short and affirm Cameron's conclusion that Britain and the United States are not ready for a new cinematic Africa...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the institutionalized practice of class and gender equality—and new mainstream discourses began to endorse a universal modernity, disregarding sociopolitical consequences of the market. Zhang Nuanxin (张暖忻, 1941–95) emerged as a pioneer in both the theory and practice of early post-Mao new experimental cinema, but she...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2012
... organizations, these critiques often fail to consider how queer Palestinians mobilize and understand themselves. This article reports on an October 2011 panel and film screening at Yale University and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. “Queer/Palestinian: Critical...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (1 (73)): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of the analysis Blade Runner still deserves the qualifier canonical —as so many university courses presently attest—it will have less to do with the film's ability to be explained through the artifact of postmodern theory than it will with the film's serving as an index of the demise of the Oedipal relation...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 65–89.
Published: 01 September 2011
... demonstrates how reality TV contributes to social governance through disciplinary discourse. Although it achieved international success as a global franchise and treated a supposedly universal subject matter, child rearing, it is at first surprising that the program was not localized for the Australian market...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 95–135.
Published: 01 December 2011
... to transcend it — as if “time capsules” without a destination. An exemplar of the penchant for “dated sexuality,” filmmaker Anna Biller restages the profilmic universe of the sexploitation oeuvre in her film Viva (2007). Viva 's narrative of two women's entrance into the sexual revolution and its meticulous...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 69–98.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of adolescence and expose the mismatch as a zone of liminality that can be confined to neither the diegesis nor the father. The instability of Durbin's voice is exemplified by the two halves of her cinematic oeuvre. Prior to US entry into the Second World War, Universal presented Deanna Durbin as a young...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2012
... into university settings, where it has students organize, market, and host the event. This essay examines the issues attendant with bringing LUNAFEST onto college campuses. On the one hand, LUNAFEST encourages and supports the exhibition of women filmmakers, a laudable endeavor. On the other hand, as a corporate...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 125–157.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and theoretical interventions posed by, especially, Guy Hocquenghem. Viewed through the lens of the complex relationship between French universalism and contemporary French queer culture, Johan is all the more radical and unique for its very direct gay stance. David A. Gerstner is professor of cinema...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 153–163.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of a game, with traditional academic work, workshops, public game demonstrations, and roundtables discussing race, gender, and sexual identity in video game culture. The community formed around QGCon—which was founded in 2013 at the University of California, Berkeley—informs this section's engagement...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 165–173.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Bonnie Ruberg In this interview, Temple University assistant professor of media studies and production Adrienne Shaw discusses her work creating the LGBTQ Video Game Archive. Today, the dynamic interplay between queerness and video games provides scholars with an emerging area of exploration...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 113–143.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and colonial secrets, locating the racially hybrid genealogies of the classic diva and the universalized subject of psychoanalysis, heretofore presumably white (European). Camera Obscura 2008 Hiram Perez is an assistant professor of English at William Paterson University. His work has appeared...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 1–3.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Therese Davis; Belinda Smaill This introduction to the special issue titled “The Place of the Contemporary Female Director” outlines the genesis of the issue and aims of the editors. Building on a workshop that took place in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, in 2011...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 197–207.
Published: 01 September 2018
... University Press in 2017 as part of Camera Obscura ’s relaunched book series). Rangan introduces “immediations,” the concept she uses for documentary tropes that generate a sensation of urgency and immediacy around endangered humanity, which distracts from the consensus they produce around particular...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 103–127.
Published: 01 December 2018
... professional women to subvert the prevalent assumption that their struggles are no longer systemic in nature while conceding that the notion of a universal experience of femininity across geopolitical and class boundaries is largely illusory. As well, she develops an aesthetic of embarrassment and awkwardness...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 185–195.
Published: 01 May 2019
...; Ambika P3, who presented a major exhibition, Chantal Akerman: NOW (2015); the conference “After Chantal” organized by the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media at the University of Westminster in 2016; and the upcoming publication dedicated to Akerman by the Moving Image Review and Art...