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Kyung-Sung: Cinematic Memories of the Colonial Past in Contemporary Korea
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2015
... 2015 by Camera Obscura 2015 Korean modernity colonial memory urban memory noir space forgotten future Figure 1. CGI reconstruction of Kyung-Sung in the 1930s in
Modern Boy (dir. Ji-woo Jeong, South Korea, 2008)
Kyung-Sung: Cinematic Memories
of the Colonial Past...
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The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 1988
... the past.
Urban, ethnic working-class situation comedies provided one means of
addressing the anxieties and contradictions emanating from the clash be•
tween the consumer present of the 1950s and collective social memory
about the 1930s and 1940s.
The consumer consciousness emerging from economic...
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Invitation to Perform Utopia and Catastrophe: On Okin Collective's Video Works
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 141–151.
Published: 01 December 2016
... visitors to experience in sensory
and affective ways the site’s precariousness, the persistence of the
memories associated with it, and the conflict between the residents’
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existence and the corporate power of urban...
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New Day Films, Digital Distribution, and Collective Aesthetics
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 153–163.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in Studies in the Humanities, Journal of Film and Video , and Journal of Urban Cultural Studies . She is the co-chair of the Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and a founding managing editor of the online journal Mediapolis . She is currently writing a book...
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In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Popular Culture
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2002
... who plays the stereotypical maid roles in old
Hollywood films such as Plantation Memories. Through interviews
and trips to libraries and obscure archives, Cheryl slowly pieces
together the story of Fae Richards, whose offscreen life includes
a romance with her white director, Martha Page...
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“Wish We Didn't Have to Meet Secretly?”: Negotiating Contemporary Space in the Lesbian-Bar Documentary
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 35–69.
Published: 01 December 2001
...-
bar documentary revolves around closed or closing bars: Forbid-
den Love documents the lesbian bars of the pre-Stonewall urban
centers of Canada; The Boy Mechanic documents both the former
and contemporary lesbian-bar scene of San Diego; and Last Call...
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From Elif to Esty? Unorthodox and Turkish German Cinema's Captivity Narrative
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2022
... space, the woman stands statically as though a fixture in this environment. This tableau vivant performs a still life in beige. A second cut to a shallow focus over-the-shoulder shot reveals an exterior urban world beyond the bars. In altogether classic visual form, the sequence of shots introduces...
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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
.... Perhaps I longed for them as a
teenager because of my early memories of industrial Indiana.
Maybe I shared with Gudrun Brangwen, in Lawrence’s Women in
Love (1921), a sense that the city was voluptuous in its grittiness,
and this was my way of domesticating it. In my imaginings it
became...
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Strategic Sentimentality: Nostalgia and the Work of Eleanor Antin
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 129–167.
Published: 01 December 2007
..., held
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her work as a femi-
nist multimedia artist and performer spans from the late 1960s
until today, and though it has always been provocative — in terms
of reflexivity, identity, power, ephemera, and memory — it had
received relatively little critical...
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Books Received
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 180–182.
Published: 01 December 2002
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Edgerton, Gary, and Peter C. Rollins, eds. Television Histories: Shaping
Collective Memory in the Media Age. Lexington: University Press of
Kentucky, 2001.
Estrin, Mark W., ed. Orson Welles: Interviews. Jackson: University of
Mississippi Press, 2002.
Eyles, Allen. Odeon Cinemas 1...
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Memory Resurrected in HD: Collective Digital Video Filmmaking as Production of Counterhistory in the Folk Memory Project
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 175–185.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jinying Li This article examines the Folk Memory Project, a collective documentary initiative in China that organized young filmmakers to return to their home villages to interview elders and unearth silenced memories of the devastating Chinese Great Famine of 1959–61. Focusing on two films...
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Editorial
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 4–7.
Published: 01 May 1990
... opened up a public space through which young, black, urban,
working-class women can express their cultural power, sexuality and
anxieties. Drawing on George Lipsitz’s application of dialogic criticism
to popular music, Rose argues that women rappers have to be seen in
terms...
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Queer Film Settings as Sites of Resistance
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 95–123.
Published: 01 September 2020
... elements within its narrative, often juxtaposes unwelcoming urban settings with natural land- scapes, barren fields, deserted highways, disposal sites, or dilapi- dated constructions. While the imagery of land and soil dominates the scenery, lovemaking on the open ground usually constitutes the climax...
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Too Close, Too Far: Cultural Composition in Straub and Huillet's Too Early, Too Late
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2003
... an exposi-
tion on such discourses. The approach of the film is more medita-
tive and its method more self-reflexive, as it broadly considers
the different modes of cinematic articulation in which these
discourses appear. After regarding images of rural and urban
France, the spectator must evaluate...
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Feminist Film in the Gallery: If 6 Was 9
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2005
... properties of spatial montage: spectatorial mastery
of space, and freedom from the vagaries of time and memory.
Instead, she unsettles the spectator by deploying “any-space-what-
evers,” a term Deleuze uses to describe both the disconnected
spaces that typify urban modernity and the disjointed visual...
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Sense and Subjectivity
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and nonsight in the context of war in Southeast Asia, illuminating the contradictions of representing Cambodian history and “seeing,” or apprehending, trauma and memory through cinema. I trace the connected, if not commensurate, powers that seek to make sense of their senselessness, their blindness. First, I...
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Horror Cities: Contesting the Ruins of Capitalism in Contemporary Genre Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 139–159.
Published: 01 May 2020
... because of this, the postindustrial city is ubiquitous within the genres of scifi/speculative, fantasy, and horror cinema, appearing consistently as backdrop, symbol, animus, and even in some cases, character. Given the wide literature on horror film, haunting, and traumatic memory, this article suggests...
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The Wages of Affluence: The High-Rise Housewife in Japanese Sex Films
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2012
... is set on the eve of the French Revolution.6 The
danchi wife lms explore what Pamela Robertson Wojcik calls the
“porousness” of domestic relations to urban space. The house-
wife’s relation to the built environment in the new postwar design
of high- rise suburban apartments offers a local...
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Valencia: The Movie/s : A New Collectivity
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 165–175.
Published: 01 December 2016
... at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her current work explores representations of landscape and the urban environment in documentary. Her films and media performances have been presented in film festivals, theaters, art galleries, and museums throughout the US and internationally, and she has received...
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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
...Domietta Torlasco This article interrogates the relation between memory and creation in Monica Bonvicini's installation Destroy She Said and Agnès Varda's film The Gleaners and I , both involving the adoption of digital technology and the simultaneous appropriation of analog materials. It is my...
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