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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 75–103.
Published: 01 September 2004
... , and English Studies in Canada . Currently she is working on a book on violence in film and stage versions of Shakespeare's plays. Catherine (Jennifer Lopez) as subjected beauty: the viewer’s
“full prize,” in The Cell (dir. Tarsem Singh, US/Germany,
2000)
Hook and Eye:
Violence and the Captive Gaze...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 209–219.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Lynne Joyrich Recently, there has been an explosion of charges of sexual violence and assault within the worlds of media, journalism, and entertainment, with female stars leading the way in making these charges of sexual misconduct public. Indeed, stars—located at precisely the boundaries...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2021
... suppresses—the violence and pleasure incurred in confrontations with the colonial or transnational other. Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2021 censorship collaboration Korea-Japan relations lesbian cinema Park Chan-wook In the final moments...
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in Symmetry, Violence, and The Handmaiden 's Queer Colonial Intimacies
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 4. An erotic act leading to asphyxiation and violence in In the Realm of the Senses ( Ai no korîda , dir. Nagisa Ōshima, Japan, 1976)
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Ora Gelley The French director Catherine Breillat has in recent years become a kind of figurehead for what has been perceived by many as a new trend in contemporary European cinema toward extreme representations of violence and graphic sexuality. As a consequence of the controversy provoked...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 96–119.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Anna Williams Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 The America’s Most Wanted logo.
Domestic Violence and the Aetiology of Crime
in America’s Most Wanted
Anna Williams
1. Introduction
Every week AmericaS Most Wanted, a novel hybrid of telethon...
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 20–31.
Published: 01 December 1982
...Janet Bergstrom
Violence and Enunciation
Janet Bergstrorn
I was struck by the violence of the film, Sauve quipeut (la vie), how it
repeatedly stages the impossibility of living sexual difference as any-
thing but an absolute dichotomy (masculine/feminine). This is so, at
the least...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 75–101.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Us ) as a shorthand, not only for warning against the danger of racist violence in postunification Germany but also for insisting that this trend aligns with a longer German history of violence against the most vulnerable, including women, children, and racialized minorities. Copyright © 2018...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 133–163.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Helena Shaskevich Abstract Yvonne Rainer's third and most explicitly political feature‐length film, Journeys from Berlin/1971 (US/UK/West Germany, 1979) explores the relationship between personal and political trauma through the lens of the instability and violence that ravaged West Germany during...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of the representational logic that inheres Pose 's historiographic intervention, the article uses the show's range of historical representations as a starting point for thinking through what it means to face death and choose life amid conditions of extraordinary violence. [email protected] Copyright ©...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2012
... terms. Two pieces of fan video art, “Unnatural Selection” and “Battlestar Redactica,” clarify Battlestar 's complicity in eugenic violence and history, while offering alternative solutions to the moral and narrative impasses of the series. By refusing the genetic stasis Battlestar proposes, these fan...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 33–59.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the film centers on the bond between a travesti mother and her missing travesti daughter. That is why in Loxoro , travesti tears abound. This article raises the following questions: If Loxoro is a language for abandoned and wounded lovers in contexts of dispossession and violence, can travesti tears play...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 149–183.
Published: 01 December 2014
... to stage the satisfactions of marital bliss. Linda's fantasy of domestic modernity pointedly and spectacularly fails to cover over national histories of colonial violence and trauma. Meanwhile, Mei Li's premodern framework of animism enlivens these abject spirits otherwise buried by national and imperial...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 31–61.
Published: 01 September 2023
... subjects, many of whom are children) first as manifestations of Emerson's and Heidegger's efforts to avoid the violence of Western thinking that they call “clutching” and “grasping” at the world, and then as instantiations of Bersani's notion of sociability as “a form of relationality uncontaminated...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 77–105.
Published: 01 December 2023
...‐fluid desires, bodies, and sex, alongside its examination of the psychic consequences of settler colonial violence, make it a thus far unique film in the Nordic context — even though this examination happens through the distancing effect of trolls as metaphorical Natives. The main characters embody...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 63–93.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Eleanore Gardner; Alyson Miller Abstract While complex women in contemporary television are, as Svenja Hohenstein and Katharina Thalmann contend, “no longer a niche phenomenon,” the antiheroine continues to be defined by her relationship to motherhood, sexuality, and violence. This essay contrasts...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 191–217.
Published: 01 May 2024
... attempted to represent and stabilize since the medium's foundations in the mid-twentieth century. In resisting stable, positive identity categories in a story of sexual violence, Coel's I May Destroy You presents an aberration and an important intervention in a televisual landscape that often relies...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 59–89.
Published: 01 September 2022
... described a cohort of films beginning around 2009 in which familial dysfunction, violence, ineffectual communication, and corporeal “weirdness” allegorize Greek political, economic, and social crises. In a kind of temporal jumble, Tsangari's first film Fit (Greece, 1994) provides instructions for reading...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 165–186.
Published: 01 September 2024
... framework of structural violence that determines individual movement, remembrance, access to health care, and living conditions. In the two short films analysed in this article, Lifting the Mask (سقط القناع) by Najwa Najjar (Palestine, 2020) and MAY: Locked Down with “Eva” in Nakba Anniversary (أيّار...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... describe their profound grief; and each filmmaker includes herself either in the frame or in the voice-over of the film—sometimes in both. Despite their distinct aesthetic investments, these three films share common thematic preoccupations with gender-based violence and filmically constructed justice...
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