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Three by Three: Lisa Cholodenko’s Attachment Trilogy
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 97–125.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... Whether the relationships are straight, gay, or bisexual; maternal, paternal, or filial; motivated, situational, or opportunistic; whether the worlds they inhabit are those of art photography, popular music, or medicine; whether their compulsions are addictive, obsessive, or narcissistic; the common story...
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Perpetrator Trauma and Current Israeli Documentary Cinema
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 93–133.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., the paper addresses the questions of whether the trauma of the perpetrator indeed exists; how we might understand the somatic and epistemological conditions of guilt; how we should define the perpetrator's trauma in contrast to the victim's; and whether this cinematic trend indeed paves the way for Israelis...
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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Transnational Feminist Spectatorship and Farida Benlyazid's A Door to the Sky
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 107–137.
Published: 01 September 2009
... relating its message almost exclusively through its protagonist's point of view, the film highlights her individuality, eliding the broader Moroccan feminist and cultural movements in which Benlyazid's film claims to intervene. For transnational feminist audiences, Benlyazid's film thus stages, whether...
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(Mis)Imagining Africa in the New Millennium: The Constant Gardener and Blood Diamond
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 69–99.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of Africa in two celebrated twenty-first century films, The Constant Gardener and Blood Diamond , and questions whether problematic archetypes still hold in the new millennium. By reading both films as noir thrillers with humanitarian agendas, the article highlights their subversive potential to “enlighten...
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The Politics of Third Way TV: Supernanny and the Commercialization of Public Service TV
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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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The Bachelor's Fantasy: Autoimmunity in Theory
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 103–123.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., Catherine Malabou, Susan Buck-Morss, and others, I consider the many scenes of self-reference and disavowal in contemporary theory, with an eye on how and whether this autoimmune disorder can be superseded and on the elemental question that is again struck: What should criticism be? Alexander R...
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Race and the First-Person Shooter: Challenging the Video Gamer in BioShock Infinite
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 89–123.
Published: 01 September 2015
... as a playground for the player but also as a proving ground where social mores are repeatedly tested. Practices such as lynching, segregation, and phrenology are woven into the narrative and the player must sometimes literally decide whether to endorse or oppose the racism modeled in the game. The hack-and-slash...
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The Turkish Sex Influx: Exploiting Class, Constituting Desire
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2018
... investigates how Turkish sex films identify and discuss the social oppositions upon which desire is manufactured. It also engages these films’ repercussions, whether in terms of cinematic and social influence or how they affected moral codes regarding female sexuality. Moving from Alan Soble’s Marxist analysis...
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Damsels Who Distress: Gender and the Acousmatic Voice in Video Games
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 63–93.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Liam Mitchell Female figures routinely appear in popular fiction as ostensibly critical correctives to masculinity who can inadvertently retrench problematic divisions between “Woman” and “Man.” In video games, these figures are often aural rather than visual; whether they are off-screen narrators...
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The Leftovers of Conspiracy: The Deformed Gazes of Under the Silver Lake
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Camera Obscura (2025) 40 (1 (118)): 118–145.
Published: 01 May 2025
..., for however much this article's author disavows the characters of the film, he cannot help but display a mesmeric interest in them. Thus this article reaches toward, without fully explicating, the question of whether critics are in control of the critical attitude they take toward an analyzed work...
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Christine Holmlund
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 183–186.
Published: 01 December 1989
... Holmlund
1969. Escape at last from high school regimentation, complete with
weekly trips to the vice-principal’s office for dress code infractions.
“Miss Holmlund! Sit down! Cross your legs!” he’d tell me. Then he’d
bend down and look up my mini-skirt to see whether it was “too
short...
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Empowering Patients: Using Interactive Video Programs to Help Patients Make Difficult Decisions
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 224–232.
Published: 01 May 1992
... type of surgery, she
faces further multiple medical philosophies about whether to take an
anti-cancer drug, which type, and how long to take it. A man with
severe problems of benign prostate disease (for example, incontinence,
feelings of urgency to urinate, and a burning sensation) must...
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Camera Informatica: Producing Interactive Media Programs for Patients Facing Difficult Choices
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 232–239.
Published: 01 May 1992
...
they did, what it was like to undergo different treatments, and how
they feel about their choices today.
Producing the Shared Decision-making Programs
There are three main issues facing developers of programs like these:
1)the accuracy and completeness of content; 2) whether framing-the
way...
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Documentary/Documentation
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Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 84–85.
Published: 01 September 1985
... recording of her own
fantasmatic relation to motherhood - the act of documenting or making
a documentary provides the basis for a multifaceted inquiry into the role
of factual knowledge in understanding the “other, ’ ’ the complexity of the
inscription of desire in the look (whether it takes...
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Sumiko Higashi
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 179–183.
Published: 01 December 1989
... in Women’s Pictures (1982):
“questions of context can easily become evacuated in favor of the
formalism that is readily privileged in semiotic and psychoanalytic
approaches to cinema. Whether such approaches are inherently im-
pervious to contextual analysis, or whether...
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Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 110–125.
Published: 01 December 1984
..., “[Diderot] surprised nature in a
charming state of undress, sometimes he also saw her relieve herself.”13
Whether or not in satire nature shows her rear is not the most interesting
thing for the philosopher, rightly or wrongly. What is interesting is first of
all that nature shows something...
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Gertrud Koch
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 209–212.
Published: 01 December 1989
...
Indiana University
Gertrud Koch
The question of whether the filmic text inscribes the spectator’s position
with the obviously privileged needs of the male gaze or whether the
film text and its conditions of reception should not be more clearly
distinguished was the point of departure...
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Wind Up: The Machine-Event of Tape
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 113–135.
Published: 01 May 2007
... to be about
the relationship of violence to language. Indeed, much linguistic
time is spent deciding whether or not Vince is a dick or whether he
only “acts in a phallic fashion,” and in the same breath, whether
he is ontologically prone to being violent or merely presents a
rather persuasive...
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Of Red Queens and Garden Clubs: The Manchurian Candidate , Cold War Paranoia, and the Historicity of the Homosexual
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 149–183.
Published: 01 May 2005
... power to trouble the theorist’s dis-
tance from the paranoia he analyzes: “It remains for the future to
decide whether there is more delusion in my theory than I should
like to admit, or whether there is more truth in Schreber’s delu-
sion than other people are as yet prepared to believe.”21...
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Le Symptôme et le Savoir
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 157–161.
Published: 01 December 1984
...-
mony. Whether self-parodicallyor not, Kaufmann plays out all the cliches
of a university intellectual, concerned at all costs to maintain the surety
and security of pure mind. He adopts each of the strategies that one tradi-
tionally enlists to defend the idea of the work...
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