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Allegory and the Aesthetics of Becoming-Woman in Marziyeh Meshkini's The Day I Became a Woman
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2007
...). The Day I Became a Woman (dir. Marziyeh Meshkini, Iran, 2000)
Allegory and the Aesthetics
of Becoming-Woman in
Marziyeh Meshkini’s
The Day I Became a Woman
Michelle Langford
Why should I stop, why?
The birds have gone off to find water ways
the horizon is vertical and moving...
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“She Was Bad News”: Male Paranoia and the Contemporary New Woman
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 296–320.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Amelia Jones Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Presumed Innocent (1990)
“She Was Bad News”: Male Paranoia and the
Contemporary New Woman
Amelia Jones
“She was bad news . . .” In Presumed Innocent (1990), this phrase
seems intended to vindicate...
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Once in a Lifetime: Constructing “The Working Woman” through Cable Narrowcasting
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 12–41.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Jackie Byars; Eileen R. Meehan Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 John Shea and Jenny Roberston in Notorious (Lifetime remake, 1992).
Once in a Lifetime:
Constructing “The Working Woman”
through Cable Narrowcasting
Jackie Byars and Eileen R. Meehan...
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The Americanization of Tsuru Aoki: Orientalism, Melodrama, Star Image, and the New Woman
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 129–157.
Published: 01 December 2005
... openly rebels
against the unreasonable patriarchal rigidity of her father
and her religion. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library
The Americanization of Tsuru
Aoki: Orientalism, Melodrama,
Star Image, and the New Woman
Sara Ross
The film career of Tsuru Aoki in the teens and twenties...
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The Organization Woman behind The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2012
... flannel suits: the Organization Woman. J. E. Smyth is associate professor of history at the University of Warwick (UK). She is the author of Reconstructing American Historical Cinema from Cimarron to Citizen Kane (2006) and Edna Ferber's Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History...
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The Red and the Black: Gender, Genre, and the Romance of (Anti)Communism in The Woman on Pier 13
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 117–147.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Robert Miklitsch This article employs Robert Stevenson's The Woman on Pier 13 (US, 1950) as a privileged example of anticommunist film noir in order to explore the received left critique of the ideological and aesthetic properties of this subgenre — what one might call the unhappy marriage of film...
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“Don't Become Too Intimate With That Terrible Woman!”: Unruly Wives, Female Comic Performance and So Long Letty
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 202–223.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Henry Jenkins Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991
“Don’t Become Too Intimate With That Terrible
Woman Unruly Wives, Female Comic
Performance and So Long Letty
Henry Ienkins
The somber Mr. Davis (Claude Gillingwater) checks into the Ardmore...
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Cinema, Taliban, and Being a Woman in Today's Afghanistan: An Interview with Sahraa Karimi
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 203–212.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of so many provinces. They have massacred our people, they kidnapped many children, they sold girls as child brides to their men, they murdered a woman for her attire. . . . It is a humanitarian crisis, and yet the world is silent. . . . We need your voice. The media, governments, and the world...
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Castle & Crook: Necroliberalism and Cartographies of Abandonment in Maquilapolis ( City of Factories ) and Señorita Extraviada ( Missing Young Woman )
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 1–33.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Edward Avila Abstract “Castle & Crook” argues that the documentary films Maquilapolis ( City of Factories ) (dir. Vicky Funari, Sergio De La Torre, Mexico/US, 2006) and Señorita Extraviada ( Missing Young Woman ) (dir. Lourdes Portillo, Mexico/US, 2001) offer critical insights...
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No Bodies Business: Trapdoor Tactics and the Art of Transgender Disappearance in A Fantastic Woman
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 157–188.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Curran Nault Abstract Chilean Academy Award–winning drama, Una mujer fantástica/A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio, 2017), is a film that navigates past the superficiality of surface into a transgender interiority and imagination situated below and against dominant culture's demand...
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Histories of The Watermelon Woman : Reflexivity between Race and Gender
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Catherine Zimmer This essay explores Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman (1997) in the context of reflexive practice in film. The film has been variously approached as queer cinema, women's autobiographical and documentary cinema, and black cinema; this essay emphasizes how one might add to all...
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Whitney is Every Woman?: Cultural Politics and the Pop Star
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 134–153.
Published: 01 September 1995
...Marla Shelton Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Whitney Houston in The Preacher’s Wife (Penny Marshall, 1996).
Whitney is Every Woman?:
Cultural Politics and the Pop Star
Marla Shelton
An American pop icon such as Whitney Houston raises questions about...
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Woman-House: Architecture, Gender and Hybridity in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 126–150.
Published: 01 September 1996
...Jane Blocker Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996 0 U I •
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Femme Maison by Louise Bourgeois, 1947. Ink on
Paper. Courtesy Robert Miller Gallery, NY.
Woman-House: Architecture, Gender and
Hybridity in What~s...
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Violent Vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and the Disappearing Woman
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 77–103.
Published: 01 September 1996
...Karen Beckman Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996
Verwehte Spuren (The Footprints Blown Away, Veit Harlan, 1938).
Violent Vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and
the Disappearing Woman
Karen Beckman
Charles Bertram, Queen Victoria's favorite magician, performed...
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Dead Woman Glowing: Karla Faye Tucker and the Aesthetics of Death Row Photography
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2004
... feminism and terrorism, and on the representation of car crashes in photography, film, and literature. Figure 1. Protestors at Tucker’s execution
Dead Woman Glowing:
Karla Faye Tucker and
the Aesthetics of
Death Row Photography
Karen Beckman
On 3 February 1998, the state of Texas...
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An Interrogation of the Cinematic Sign: Woman as Sexual Signifier in Jackie Raynal's Deux Fois
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Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 11–26.
Published: 01 May 1976
... © 1976 by Camera Obscura 1976 An 'Interrogation of the Cinematic Sign:
Woman as Sexual Signifier in
Jackie Raynal's Deux Pois
Deux Fois, made in 1970 byJackie Raynal, a French film editor, was cho-
sen as a text for analysis because it foregrounds...
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Woman of the Ganges
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 122–130.
Published: 01 September 1977
...Marguerite Duras © 1977 by Camera Obscura 1977 Woman ofthe Ganges
by Marguerite Duras
1-5. Daytime.
A square bordered by trees and a large rectangular building.
Itis a city. Empty. Far away, however, what might be taken for
rumors of life...
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Soviet Film Montage and the Woman Question
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 24–53.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Judith Mayne Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
Soviet Film Montage and the Woman Question
Judith Mayne
Virtually all critics of Soviet film of the 1920s would agree that the
development of the cinema needs...
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No Woman Is an Object: Realizing the Feminist Collaborative Video
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 71–97.
Published: 01 December 2003
... and Practice (forthcoming). She has produced over fifteen activist videos, including the feature documentaries Dear Gabe and Women of Vision and the feature film The Watermelon Woman . Video animation still by Joe Saito from RELEASED: Five Short
Videos about Women and Prison (2000)
No Woman...
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Knocking Off Nationalism in Hong Kong Cinema: Woman and the Chinese “Thing” in Tsui Hark's Films
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 37–61.
Published: 01 December 2006
...:
Woman and the Chinese “Thing”
in Tsui Hark’s Films
Kwai-Cheung Lo
“Nationalism on speed” is how Stephen Teo characterizes the
recurring Chinese themes in Tsui Hark’s movies.1 Given his obses-
sion with Chinese national history and ethnic cultural icons, Tsui’s
Hong Kong features...
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