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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 65–89.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Karen Orr Vered; John McConchie Inspired by a review of the political theories of Anthony Giddens, particularly his question of whether or not there can be a Third Way politics of family, this essay examines the TV show Supernanny as an example of what we call “Third Way TV.” Tracing the program's...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 1–33.
Published: 01 September 2014
... by Camera Obscura 2014 Figure 1. Girl 6 (Theresa Randle) as Pam Grier’s Foxy
Brown. Girl 6 (dir. Spike Lee, US, 1996)
The Only Way Out Is In:
Girl 6, Sex Work,
and the Color Line
Anthony Reed
Since the beginnings of cinema, black visuality has marked both
a crisis and a spur...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 178–183.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Lucas Hilderbrand Camera Obscura 2008 Lucas Hilderbrand is an assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. His book Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright is forthcoming from Duke University Press. “More Than One Way...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 13–29.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Ivone Margulies This interview with film editor Claire Atherton focuses on her three-decade collaboration on the films and installations of Chantal Akerman (1950–2015). Questioned by Akerman scholar Ivone Margulies, Atherton describes her meeting and rapport with Akerman and their way of working...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 6–23.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Grant Farred Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton, 1991)
No Way out of the Menaced Society:
Loyalty within the Boundedness of Race
Grant Farred
Where there is an actual arc of rising violence, as
in Southcentral Los Angeles...
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in Viola Liuzzo / Heather Heyer: Mediating the Antiracist White Female Martyr
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 3. Heather Heyer Way decorations and Heather Heyer street sign
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 30–49.
Published: 01 September 1999
...Rey Chow Copyright © 1999 by Indiana University Press 1999
Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure In
Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together
Rey Chow
In one of the earliest discussions of poststrueturalism to appear in
English, "Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness...
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in Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 3. Although not in the same space, the film frequently shoots Matt and Anna in ways that destabilize that fact. Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021)
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in Self-Suspension in Frames: Hito Steyerl's Lovely Andrea
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 7. “You are connected to other people through the net.” Osada Steve's words as Spider-Man weaves his way through Manhattan. Lovely Andrea (dir. Hito Steyerl, Japan/Austria/Germany, 2007). Courtesy of the artist
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 69–101.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Kristi McKim Hirokazu Kore-eda's 1998 film After Life stylistically cites canonical Japanese films (especially that of Yasujiro Ozu), while heralding the cinema's role in both photogenically defamiliarizing the familiar and naturalizing the new. Set in a way station between heaven and earth...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 63–93.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Adair Rounthwaite This article develops the concept of “the masturbatory” as a way of theorizing performance art and performance studies' recent turn to reperformance. In reperformance, previous performance artworks — often from performance art's “classic” era of the 1970s — are reenacted, creating...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 115–143.
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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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 30–59.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jeremy Chow This essay considers how environmentalism can be interwoven with discourses of sexuality and the ways in which sexuality can participate in environmental justice movements. By thinking with provocative, erotic media that highlight environmental degradation, it marries investigations...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of these discussions and explore their interrelations, by looking at the film through a history and analysis of cinematic reflexivity. As a metacinematic work both by and about an African American lesbian director, the film has much to say about the means of its own production and, even further, about the way...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Anna Ball One of the many astonishing traits of Palestinian cinema is the way in which it has embraced the complex relationship between gender and nation as a central concern in its filmmaking. This article explores the ways in which gendered and national identity are negotiated and refigured...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Minh-Ha T. Pham This essay closely considers the political limits and possibilities of fashion-themed blogs. Specifically, the author examines the ways in which such blogs are everyday cultural sites that are framed by and can potentially reframe neoliberal relations of culture, technology...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 91–121.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Noor Al-Qasimi This article focuses on shampoo advertising for Saudi Arabian Television. It examines the ways in which shampoo advertisements produced for Saudi Arabian Television employ techniques to introduce and maintain codes of modesty in the construction of the Muslim female subject on-screen...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 31–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and multilayered network of mutual dependency and interactive/interpassive reconfigurations. The article asks in what ways the Twilight films construct or imagine their targeted audience — teenage girls, Twilight moms, and gay men — and how such desires are then consumed, multiplied, and circulated on textual...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 25–59.
Published: 01 September 2012
... that these films are both recognizable to and somewhat outside world cinema categories, I suggest ways of reading the spectral affects of the films that account for the complex, conflicting forms of spirituality, eroticism, and transgression that make them so popular with their audiences. This type of a reading...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2011
... herself as a benshi. Unlike other traditional performing arts, creating one's original style based on one's interpretation of the film has always been more valued than copying the predecessors' styles. Sawato also discusses the complex ways in which she, a contemporary woman with a clear feminist agenda...
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