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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...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 151–163.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of everyday encounters with the excesses of conspicuous consumption, the inequalities of gendered relations, and the disturbing encounters with state-mandated violence against other cultures, in particular the US invasion of Vietnam. Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 158–184.
Published: 01 May 1995
... as a ticket to Amer-
ica for her son To assure the little boy's
passage to America, where he will be safe from
the horrors of Vietnam, Lucky Legs blows herself
up with her Communist lover, not suspecting...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 146–165.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of what I am calling
national memory in China Beach with this episode because “The Gift”
perfectly typifies the series’ organizing anxiety-the impossibility of
adequately remembering the Vietnam war-and it mobilizes the show’s
most typical expression of that anxiety by narrativizing...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 96–123.
Published: 01 September 1999
... Joker" (Matthew Modine), one of
the recruits in Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket
(1987), after he and his fellows have been processed through the
micromanaged control-technologies of discipline, drill, and regimen•
tation that here figure Marine Corps boot camp...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 169–179.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of the world. It was the time of the Vietnam War,
growing politicization, and increased sexual freedom. Yoko Ono
performed her Bag Piece in the hall. The red carpet of the
re ned casino was covered with empty glasses and cigarette butts,
and a fog of marijuana smoke hung as thick inside...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 222.
Published: 01 May 1995
... of Humanities at
Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland. Her other work on popular repre-
sentations of Vietnam has been accepted for publication by Genders and
Genre, and she is currently completing revisions of a booklength study entitled,
"No Place Like Home": Fantasy...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 151–179.
Published: 01 May 2004
... national history. First appear-
ing outside of US Chinatowns in 1973, the very year of US with-
drawal from Vietnam, Hong Kong kung fu movies in general and
Bruce Lee’s movies in particular spoke to deep currents of anti-
establishment feeling at a bitter moment of post-Vietnam disillu-
sionment...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 159–166.
Published: 01 January 1990
... photos of
the Vietnam war, folk dances, family portraits, beauty contests, school
children, workers in a field, boat people, etc., with a series of increas-
ingly stylized first-person dramatized monologues performed by Viet-
namese women now living in the United States. Minh-ha uses non...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 52–76.
Published: 01 September 1996
... his craft
anywhere in the world for more than three years. Animated as Ali's
opposition to the Vietnam war was by his commitment to the Nation
of Islam, it was motivated by more explicitly political forces than that.
He regarded America's forays into south-east Asia as an expansionist
and unjust...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 188–189.
Published: 01 September 1991
....
Amanda Howell is a graduate student in film at the University of Rochester.
Her research focuses on representations of sexual difference in the Vietnam
War film and their implications for current psychoanalytic and feminist film
theory.
Margaret Iversen teaches Art Theory in the Department...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 15–41.
Published: 01 May 1997
... experiencers, MIAs from the Vietnam War,
immigrants, Holocaust survivors, youth gangs, transsexuals, junkies,
Kevorkianists, those suffering from multiple personality disorder, and
PWAs (persons with AIDS)-all these have been represented as pos-
sessed of (or by) forms of “life” that are not quite...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 54–75.
Published: 01 September 1991
... A Yellow Ribbon Round
the Old Oak Tree,” which expressed a Vietnam soldier’s plea to his
sweetheart to remember him while he was away (although popular
sentiment traces the yellow ribbon custom at least to John Ford’s She
Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and even to Civil War custom). Thus histor...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 167–177.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and their practices. She is a lecturer at RMIT University, Vietnam, in the Centre for Communication and Design. © 2017 by Camera Obscura 2017 feminist Indian documentary Paromita Vohra Indian documentary film feminist filmmakers documentary filmmaking Figure 1. A satirical advertisement from...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 75–102.
Published: 01 May 1997
... that, in the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, lying has
become constitutive of identity and religion. Our faith becomes the
conviction that we always and already have been lied to, and, as the
interpellated producers and products of this faith, we want to believe
both the Lone Gunmen and Scully...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 183–186.
Published: 01 December 1989
....” No female spectator here . . . .
I started college at the University of Maryland at the height of campus
protests against the Vietnam War and quickly became involved in left
wing and feminist organizing. The combination of the two was key:
the personal was political but because the question...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 47–75.
Published: 01 May 2001
... rationality—Brechtian
distanciation over emotional engagement—became central to
the structure of all his subsequent films. This film, Farocki’s first
significant achievement, was both an indictment of Dow Chemi-
cal’s production of Napalm B for the Vietnam War...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 131–160.
Published: 01 December 1982
... frequently works by metaphor. In this way, when Juliet Berto
embodies Vietnam (shot 8, partly repeated in shots 46 and 56) in
what is a fairly complete metaphor, her image includes an implicit
allusion to Mao’s famous description of American capitalism as a
“paper tiger” (an allusion which...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 75–103.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Nora M. Alter Camera Obscura 2000 Nora M. Alter is associate professor of German, film, and media studies at the University of Florida. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (1996). Some of her essays have appeared in the following journals: Film...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 176–179.
Published: 01 December 1986
... edited by
Celeste West. Dustbooks. Paradise, CA, 1986. $9.95.
Cinema, Drama, Schema: Eastern Metaphysics in Western Art by Hector
Currie. Philosophical Library. New York, 1986. $14.95.
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood. Columbia University
Press...
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