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Wind Up: The Machine-Event of Tape

Lynn Turner
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 113–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2006-022
Published: 01 May 2007
... Figures Theory.” Previous articles can be found in The Origins of Deconstruction (2006), as well as in parallax, Performance Research , and the Journal of Visual Culture . Wind Up: The Machine-Event of Tape Lynn Turner I’m sorry, so sorry. Please accept my apology. But love...
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She Listened: Vardian Self-Portraiture and Auto-Refrains of Sea, Wind, and Sand

Nadine Boljkovac
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 61–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838541
Published: 01 May 2021
... by Agnès What does to be listening, to be all ears, as one would say “to be in the world,” mean? —Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live! —Paul Valéry, “The Graveyard by the Sea” At one hour, three minutes, and twenty-four seconds into Agnès...
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Agnès Varda, Marie dans le vent ( Marie in the <span class="search-highlight">Wind</span> , 2014). © succession...

Agnès Varda, Marie dans le vent ( Marie in the Wind , 2014). © succession...

in Varda's Third Life > Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 7. Agnès Varda, Marie dans le vent ( Marie in the Wind , 2014). © succession varda More
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Capote’s Swans: Effeminacy, Friendship, and Style in Douglas McGrath’s Infamous

Elisabeth Windle
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 63–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4205077
Published: 01 December 2017
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Road Movie : Notes from the Field

elle flanders
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 165–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1597267
Published: 01 September 2012
... of the impact of neoliberalism on current queer politics, the piece winds its way toward a suturing of queer identity and questions of nation. Road Movie installation at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Photo by Tom Blanchard, courtesy O’Born Contemporary I N PRACTICE: THE QU EER ST A T E...
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Panting in the Dark: The Ambivalence of Air in Cinema

Kevin L. Ferguson
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 33–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1301530
Published: 01 September 2011
... the accidents of an actor’s performance and wasting time by spitting in the wind? Or is this not in fact the kind of ambivalence that leads us to the movement underlying Freud’s uncanny, Der- rida’s pharmakon, Hegel’s dialectic — ­the ambivalence wherein ideas contain at once a whiff of their opposition...
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The Quick and the Dead: Surrealism and the Found Ethnographic Footage Films of Bontoc Eulogy and Mother Dao: The Turtlelike

Fatimah Tobing Rony
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 129–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-18-1_52-129
Published: 01 May 2003
... is that of the wind. All of a sudden your beloved grandmother appears, seemingly out of nowhere. She pulls you towards her. “There you are! I’ve been looking all over for you. The bus is leaving.” You run with her to a huge bus that is just about to pull out. Your grandmother climbs the steps...
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A Blustery Day for a Baby: Technologies of Family Formation in Twister

Bonnie Blackwell
Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 189–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-17-1_49-189
Published: 01 May 2002
... impel Melissa and Bill into a nuclear family, and the film is determined to reunite Bill and Jo in an extravaginal coital thrill that it represents as being caught in a tornado funnel. This is a film where all winds blow back to the homestead, or, even more claustrophobically, the fallout shelter...
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Ruby Red and Emerald Green: The Queer Demon Diva of My Dreams

Lorrie Palmer
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 194–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-033
Published: 01 May 2008
... — stands alone, onstage, killing me softly with his song. And I do not know if I should follow his winding yellow brick road or stay safely in Kansas. He is Lorne (Andy Hallett), empathetic demon extraor- dinaire. Situated within a hybrid narrative that combines genres (horror, comedy...
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Varda's Third Life

Dominique Bluher
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 187–213.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838601
Published: 01 May 2021
...Figure 7. Agnès Varda, Marie dans le vent ( Marie in the Wind , 2014). © succession varda ...
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“The very palpitation of life!”: “The Leaves Are Stirring” in Context

Ivan Cerecina
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 69–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013618
Published: 01 December 2022
... almost fill the entire screen. Behind them—one can just about make them out— the leaves of a fusain shrub stir in the wind . This detail was wildly popular, contributing greatly to the success of the film.” 8 This relay of references extends even further into the past: Sadoul himself draws...
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Introduction: Future Varda

Rebecca J. DeRoo, Homay King
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 1–7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838505
Published: 01 May 2021
... honored, Varda also opens questions of national reflection on gender and historical commemoration. In “She Listened: Vardian Self-Portraiture and Auto-Refrains of Sea, Wind, and Sand,” Nadine Boljkovac examines (self-)portraiture in The Beaches of Agnès ( Les plages d'Agnès , France, 2008), Agnès...
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Queer-ing Texture: Tactility, Spatiality, and Kinesthetic Empathy in She Monkeys

Katharina Lindner
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 121–154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4205099
Published: 01 December 2017
... and bushes, with leaves rustling in the wind and brushing against each other, giving the image a patterned and textured feel (fig. 1). The young protag- onist, Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser), steps into the frame from behind a tree from the left, framed in mid- shot, and immediately steps backward...
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Deux Fois : Shot Chart

Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 39–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1-1_1-39
Published: 01 May 1976
.../ Awomanseen outsidewith 12 mcu f.rn + N wind blowing her hair. C/) ::J ::J 41 fl...
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The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk

Sharon Willis
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 131–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-18-3_54-131
Published: 01 December 2003
... of Life (US, 1959) and Written on the Wind (US, 1956). Cinematically, Far from Heaven shares with these Sirk productions an obtrusive score, a meticulous attention to color, strikingly truncated interiors, and a rhythm of hysterical eruptions. However, as it consistently elabo- rates its difference...
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AIDS and Gay Cinephilia

Roger Hallas
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 85–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-18-1_52-85
Published: 01 May 2003
... at attachment and bonding. . . . Unaccountably, the tribe is now all men. And each century they have grown younger, so that the men are now no older than boys. They have been blinded by the desert sun, deafened by the wind, but they have wandered together for so long that they know each other...
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Site Re:cite

Gary Hill
Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 125–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-3_24-125
Published: 01 September 1990
.... This insidious wraparound, tied to the notion “I have eyes in the back of my head,” binds me to my double, implodes my being to a mere word as it winds the world around my mouth. A seamless scroll weaves my view back into place- back to back with itself -the boomerang effect, decapitates any...
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Too Close, Too Far: Cultural Composition in Straub and Huillet's Too Early, Too Late

Burlin Barr
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (2 (53)): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-18-2_53-1
Published: 01 September 2003
... find a broad range of locations—and sounds—in Too Early, Too Late. Many of the landscape shots of France and of Egypt are notable for their near silence, while oth- ers are complicated by a rich, tumultuous sonic field. In different shots, we hear birdsong, cathedral bells, wind, engine noise, human...
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Interview with Patty Chang

Eve Oishi
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 119–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-18-3_54-119
Published: 01 December 2003
... them. In another, Gong Li with the Wind (with Rajendra Roy at New York University’s Cantor Film Center, 1995) she gorges on beans and shits them out from under a hoop skirt. In all of her work, the line between her own body and the props of her performance is deliberately troubled. Much...
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Passion (Love and Work)

Jean-Luc Godard
Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 124–130.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3-4-2-3-1_8-9-10-124
Published: 01 December 1982
... their feelings within themselves (especially since it is the end of autumn and chilly). These production sequences would be like seeing the moments of passion within themselves (like a shower or a gust of wind, before and after they had passed through bodies and souls, binding...
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