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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 103–139.
Published: 01 September 2008
... speech, that the surge of weeping men in recent Israeli films–men who discuss their inability to cry or to stop crying, who parade their tears–might be read as an attempt by Israeli mainstream entertainment to deal with Israeli society's infatuation with victimhood and its tendency to conflate identity...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Joy McEntee Charles S. Young and Susan L. Carruthers describe John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (US, 1962) as a prisoner-of-war film. This article argues that, as such, it stages the responses of its male protagonists to trauma. Focusing on weeping, the article examines...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 224–232.
Published: 01 May 1992
... and there is this spot on your head. And you weep, you just weep.” Later, another woman relates a very different experience: “My hair got thicker, fuller, and the texture changed.” From Breast Cancer: Adjuvant Therapy, Dartmouth Interactive Media Laboratory’s Shared...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 186–189.
Published: 01 December 1989
... of Fatal Attraction, writ- ten as if by right-wing women, haunts me. Authoritatively and smugly, these ladies offer their version of the female spectator: “If you gals really have an urge to see a movie go see Snow White. You’ll weep watching that gal do what all good gals...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 140–143.
Published: 01 September 2007
... to a church in Oakland, where a ragtag crowd of ex-lovers, family members, high-powered music producers and performers, Tenderloin drag queens, friends from his life in the Castro, disco fans who barely knew him, aging hippies, and gay and AIDS activists weep to the sound of Sylvester singing “Oh...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 183–186.
Published: 01 December 1989
... offer their version of the female spectator: “If you gals really have an urge to see a movie go see Snow White. You’ll weep watching that gal do what all good gals should do, which is to lie there in the woods in a coma waiting for the right man to come along.” I prefer...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., and weeping until they reached exhaustion.25 Through movement and repeated, fraught encounter, interesting shifts did occur among the individual bodies that made it possible for these dancers to find points of intersection and interest in their peers without erasing difference or posing a corrective...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 41–59.
Published: 01 May 2021
... (2014), www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n12/jacqueline-rose/mothers/ . 15. She uses the same strategy in The Beaches of Agnes ( Les plages d'Agnès , France, 2008), where she cuts to a Picasso portrait of a weeping Dora Maar, Femme en pleurs ( Weeping Woman , 1937), as she speaks of her period...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 169–177.
Published: 01 January 1988
...? He is amazed when I weep, or become so scared that I can only watch through my fingers. "It's only television, Mum!" So too, the "problems" encountered are those which arise out of the slightly older child's knowing opposition to its parents' overpoliticized...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... It and Weep,” and King Kong (dir. Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack, US, 1933) in “Secret of My Excess” necessarily go over the heads of young viewers.59 Rebecca Farley critiques the concept of “double coding” in academic and industrial discussions of animation that separate layers of meaning...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 75–101.
Published: 01 September 1993
... by the terms of a conven- tional Oedipal narrative. Weeping a lament, A Chu subsequently meets Yuan at the original site where Fleur and Zhenbang were to have rendezvoused-completing the engagement that Chen Zhenbang fails to fulfill with Fleur: A CHU: Sorry. YUAN: She hasn’t come...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., only to be awakened by an exhausted Lan Yu. The scene that follows has them back at their apartment where Lan Yu weeps uncontrollably into Handong’s comforting arms. Again, 158  •  Camera Obscura this entire sequence abides by the film’s minimalist approach of truncation and erasure...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to several times in a classic romantic comedy of the modern period, Sleepless in Seattle (dir. Nora Ephron, US, 1993).8 In the middle of the lat- ter film, women are shown weeping atAn Affair to Remember, and the men mock them by pretending to cry at the end of the classic male adventure/war...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 149–179.
Published: 01 December 2002
... the dream fulfills: to repudiate the intolerable ambivalence she felt for her adored child, to deny ever having wished to be rid of him, she makes him the author of the fate she merely endures.16 As he comforts his weeping wife in the Saracen’s cabin, the patriarchal John Ingram—ship’s captain...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 147–182.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... At supper, their abusive relations are manifested by his forcing her to eat the eels. At first she desperately refuses, but with the help of the erotic-exploitative mediation of her lover Jan Bronski — who calms her weeping by fondling her until her weeping changes to moans of passion — she eats...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (3 (66)): 93–127.
Published: 01 December 2007
... to gingerly rest on what we can assume to be the marital bed. Her reluctance to replace the highly cathected bond to her mother with that of an unfamiliar husband is conveyed when she then rifles through her purse to retrieve the photo of her mother and clasps it to her breast, quietly weeping...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 4–33.
Published: 01 September 1996
... "openly weeping" and "spontaneously cheering," for instance." The reception of the film in print has been divided between the global womanists (many of whom identified with the film's construc- tion of universalized racial and sexual communities) and those who critiqued the neo-colonial...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 107–147.
Published: 01 May 2005
... for this partition memory lies in its capacity to create a public culture in the present through the film’s evocation of a collective mourn- ing of this lost community of the past. Sumita S. Chakravarty, in her article “‘Can the Subaltern Weep?’ Mourning as Metaphor in Rudaali (The Crier argues...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 73–89.
Published: 01 January 1990
... a multiple view of her external features, she sees in it figures from her own inner life. Magically, there appear within the mirror’s oval frame, in minia- ture and one after the other, her weeping mother who is wringing her hands, and then her angry father. The camera engages us through this minor...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 76–101.
Published: 01 May 1994
... was that after half a day, I didn’t want to be there. . . . Nature turned out to be straight uphill, dusty, hot and itchy. . . . That night I cried myself to sleep, weeping in utter silence so as not to disgrace myself. In the morning, I discovered that I had all the wrong kinds...