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<span class="search-highlight">Water</span> Light&#x2F;<span class="search-highlight">Water</span> Needle (1966). St. Mark&#x27;s Church in-the-Bowery, New York...

Water Light/Water Needle (1966). St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York...

in Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019): Portfolio > Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 9. Water Light/Water Needle (1966). St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York. Photograph by John Weber More
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Teutonic Water: Effervescent Otherness in Doris Dörrie's Nobody Loves Me

Margaret McCarthy
Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 177–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-15-2_44-177
Published: 01 September 2000
... is coediting a volume on German popular film with Randall Halle. 06-McCarthy 176-201=26pgs 1/25/01 1:48 PM Page 176 06-McCarthy 176-201=26pgs 1/25/01 1:48 PM Page 177 Teutonic Water: Effervescent Otherness in Doris Dörrie’s Nobody Loves Me...
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Bodies in Water: Disability Cinemas and Creatures of the Sea

Emma Ben Ayoun
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 115–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013646
Published: 01 December 2022
...Emma Ben Ayoun Abstract Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone (France, 2012) and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water (US, 2017) tell, in very different ways, a familiar story: a disabled, female protagonist is rehabilitated by romance, restored in her role as the object of heterosexual desire...
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In the Twilight of Modernity and the Silent Film: Irie Takako in The Water Magician

Chika Kinoshita
Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 91–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-20-3_60-91
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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Male Weeping as Performative: The Crying Mossad Assassin in Walk on Water

Boaz Hagin
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 103–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2008-004
Published: 01 September 2008
...Boaz Hagin The article examines the trope of the crying male in contemporary Israeli fiction films as it appears near the end of the 2004 feature film Walk on Water , written by Gal Uchovsky and directed by Eytan Fox. It suggests, employing various accounts of crying, melodrama, and performative...
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Mothers and Daughters: Abjection and the Monstrous-Feminine in Japan's Dark Water and South Korea's A Tale of Two Sisters

K K Seet
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 139–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2009-005
Published: 01 September 2009
... Dark Water (2002) and South Korea's A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), this essay proposes that the current orientation evinces the anxieties of a patriarchal culture denied its sovereignty as the result of a widening gulf between the mythology of the bourgeois family and its actual social manifestations...
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The Shape of <span class="search-highlight">Water</span> (dir. Guillermo del Toro, US, 2017)

The Shape of Water (dir. Guillermo del Toro, US, 2017)

in Bodies in Water: Disability Cinemas and Creatures of the Sea > Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2022
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The Shape of <span class="search-highlight">Water</span> (dir. Guillermo del Toro, US, 2017)

The Shape of Water (dir. Guillermo del Toro, US, 2017)

in Bodies in Water: Disability Cinemas and Creatures of the Sea > Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2022
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“Sometimes It Seems You’re in Another World”: Afrocentric Feminisms of the LA Rebellion

Jamie Ann Rogers
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 125–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8359552
Published: 01 September 2020
... politics, even as the filmmakers express them through widely different means. The article focuses primarily on three films that span the final decade in which Rebellion filmmakers were active at UCLA: Barbara McCullough’s Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification (1979), Alile Sharon Larkin’s...
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Thoughts on Making Films with Barbara Hammer

Lynne Sachs
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 129–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349441
Published: 01 December 2021
... material from Hammer's 1998 artist residency in a Cape Cod shack without running water or electricity. While there, she shot film, recorded sounds, and kept a journal. In 2018, Hammer began her process of dying by revisiting her personal archive. She gave all of her images, sounds, and writing from...
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Swimming Pools, Movie Stars: The Celebrity Body in the Post-War Marketplace

Catherine Williamson
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 4–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-2_38-4
Published: 01 May 1996
...: water ballet served as a gimmick which offered the Esther Williams' films a unique differen- tiation from other technicolor musicals of the day. Additionally, the languorous swimming scenes offered an excellent opportunity to dis- play the female body in various stages of undress while...
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Fluid Fantasies: Splash and Children of a Lesser God

Susan Felleman
Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 108–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-1_19-108
Published: 01 January 1989
... and Immanence: The Watery World of Woman 111 Over and over again: the women-in-the-water; woman as water, as a stormy, cavorting, cooling ocean, a raging stream, a waterfall; as a limitless body of water that ships pass through, with tributaries, pools, surfs and deltas; woman...
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Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019): Portfolio

Kenneth White, Tess Takahashi
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 198–210.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052942
Published: 01 September 2021
...Figure 9. Water Light/Water Needle (1966). St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York. Photograph by John Weber ...
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Thoughts on Birth and Brakhage

Lynne Sachs
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2006-026
Published: 01 May 2007
..., there is only one film, of the many works to which I expose my college students, that consistently cre- ates a passionate, call it vitriolic, reaction: Stan Brakhage’s twelve- minute Window Water Baby Moving (US, 1962). From “sublime!” to “disgusting!” and all the shades in between, this forty-five-year...
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Occult Melodramas: Spectral Affect and West African Video-Film

Lindsey Green-Simms
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 25–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1597204
Published: 01 September 2012
... the advice of a well- to- do, single friend. The friend sends Julie to an occultist who takes her to the beach and Camera Obscura Volume Number © by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press • Camera Obscura initiates her into a cult that worships a lesbian water...
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Personal Film/Feminist Film

Linda Reisman
Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 60–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4-2_11-60
Published: 01 September 1983
... debt to Brakhage -in her self-referential subject matter and unconventional filming strate• gies, and particularly in making a "birth" film (Misconception, 1977) which begs comparison with Brakhagc's Window Water Baby Moving. But Taubin is primarily interested in arguing for the strength...
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The Film-Work, 2

Thierry Kuntzel
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 6–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2-2_5-6
Published: 01 September 1980
... of their actantial posi- tions, may be said to occupy, in turn, the place of the centaur. The mythical foundation (the text’s unconscious?) is Kentauros, “whipper of waters,” god of mountain torrents. Rains- ford, shot by Zaroff, falls into the rapids- and revives. 1.2.2. The Constellation...
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Castle & Crook: Necroliberalism and Cartographies of Abandonment in Maquilapolis ( City of Factories ) and Señorita Extraviada ( Missing Young Woman )

Edward Avila
Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 1–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11024044
Published: 01 May 2024
... the phrase “necropower in absentia.” Arguably, necropower is all too flagrant yet curiously mundane. 15 The matter-of-fact tenor of the young woman's voice is terribly unsettling, which is especially intensified as the camera directs our attention to children jumping across a stream of discolored water...
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The Incomplete Act as the Significant Act: Notes on the Films of Bette Gordon

Karyn Kay
Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 80–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2-2_5-80
Published: 01 September 1980
... reversal or negative. Each is the same dive, but the colors are complementary (e.g., the blue water is red, the whitish sky is black, etc The editing is complex in that each dive is divided into five-frame sections; dive I (frames 1-5) is cut next to dive 2 (frames I-5...
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Documenting Modern-Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic: An Interview with Amy Serrano

Michael T. Martin
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 161–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-005
Published: 01 September 2010
... in the US have mobility, whether they have legal status or not. They shop at the same supermarkets we do. They have cars and trucks. They have running water and electricity. And their children can go to school. The children of Haitian migrants in the DR can at best attain a fourth-­grade level...
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