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in Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2022
Figure 3. Two photographs of groups of women, mid-/late nineteenth century, Golestan Collection, Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies. ‘Ismat poses at the center of both photographs. Inscription in the left photograph a reads, “Taj al-Dawlah wife of Nasir al-Din Shah, ‘Ismat al
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 179–186.
Published: 01 May 2017
...). © 2017 by Camera Obscura 2017 Stephanie Rothman exploitation film women directors feminist filmmaking Figure 1. Director Stephanie Rothman on the set of
The Student Nurses (US, 1970)
IN PRACTICE
Stephanie Rothman Does
Not Exist...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 102–123.
Published: 01 September 1993
...Tara McPherson Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993
Disregarding Romance and
Refashioning Femininity:
Getting Down and Dirty with
the Designing Women‘
Tara McPherson
Female communities are united by their necessary...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 212–241.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Carolyn Bronstein Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 A Healthy Challenge: The National Nutrition Test (Lifetime Television, 1993)
Mission Accomplished? Profits and
Programming at the Network for Women
Carolyn Bronstein
In the latest round of proposed funding cuts...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (1 (49)): 73–105.
Published: 01 May 2002
... and is in the postproduction stages of a feature-length documentary, Talk Back Bosnia: A Dialogue on Nation Building . Loie Fuller in The Serpentine Dance.
Courtesy New York Public Library
Women in Motion: Loie Fuller
and the “Interpenetration” of
Art and Science
Elizabeth Coffman
A modern woman...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 1.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Melinda Barlow Camera Obscura 2003 Editor’s Note on
“Dossier on Women and Video:
Histories and Practices”
In North America, video and feminism have shared a history
since the heady 1970s. There seems to be an almost “organic rela-
tionship,” in contributor Laura Marks’s phrase...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 41–69.
Published: 01 December 2003
... was a fellow of the Center for Behavioral Research at the American University of Beirut. Still from Hadel Nazmy’s open studio project, “Personal
Diary in Desolate Town,” at Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery
in 2002. Courtesy Hadel Nazmy
What Is That and between
Arab Women and Video?
The Case...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (2 (59)): 1–33.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Lindsey Moore Camera Obscura 2005 Lindsey Moore is lecturer in English at Lancaster University, UK. She has published articles on Algerian revolutionary women in the texts of Frantz Fanon and Gillo Pontecorvo and on Shirin Neshat, an Iranian artist resident in the United States. She...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 111–135.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and theorist. Camera Obscura 2008 Brian Wall is an assistant professor of cinema at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is currently working on a manuscript exploring Theodor Adorno's conceptions of spirit in relation to cinema.
“Jackie Treehorn Treats Objects
Like Women...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 43–75.
Published: 01 September 2009
... documentaries frequently focus on women and children in not only the United Kingdom but also in cultures as diverse as Japan, Iran, and nations in Africa. This essay explores four of her most well-known recent documentaries, Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001), both made in Tehran and codirected...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 67–101.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Alexanderplatz. Ultimately these figures make up one vast composite character, a combinatory form that echoes the superimposed photographs from the Weimar era that appear in the miniseries's credit sequence. Both the credit sequence and the serial women offer ways of representing Germany's past as a variegated...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 147–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Debra Zimmerman; Patricia White Debra Zimmerman, executive director of Women Make Movies, talks about the organization on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary with Camera Obscura editorial collective member and Women Make Movies board chair Patricia White. Women Make Movies was formed in 1972...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 33–63.
Published: 01 December 2014
... focus This
“Miserable Women on Television”:
Irene McCabe, Television News,
and Antibusing Politics
Matt Delmont
The slender mother of three alternatively goaded, rallied,
calmed and steadied her followers through a long morning
of active protest against pupil busing. Thousands...
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 122–152.
Published: 01 December 1980
...Marc Silberman © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 Women Workmg
Women Filmmakers in West Germany:
A Catalog
Marc Silberman
Introduction 8. Cristina Perincioli
1. Claudia Alemann 9. Helga Reidemeister
2. Jutta Brueckner 10. ErikaRunge
3. Doris...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (3 (60)): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2005
... screening in the Tokyo Kinema movie theater.
The actors pictured are Okada Yoshiko, right, and Tanaka
Kinuyo, left. Reprinted from Toyo Cinema Weekly,
9 February 1933.
New Women of the Silent Screen:
China, Japan, Hollywood
Catherine Russell
The movie screen here is not simply...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 103–127.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., they are nonetheless geopolitically and historically specific, consistently focusing on the awkwardness of white, heterosexual, middle-class, professional German women and what Lauren Berlant refers to as the “cruel optimism” that renders their seemingly privileged existence precarious. Ade distinguishes herself...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 21–47.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Faye Stewart This study traces shared national narratives about women, work, and precarity in films made by East German women directors in the state-run DEFA studios before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A comparative analysis of Evelyn Schmidt’s Das Fahrrad ( The Bicycle , 1982) and Helke...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 195–207.
Published: 01 September 2019
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 127–155.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Annie Berke This article places 1950s women story editors in television in the context of the studio system and explains the particular labor of the story and script editors in film and TV. It examines the extant records and archival sources (including newspapers, industry trade publications...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... ethical questions around white imperial violence, the disposability of brown lives, and the current political shift of and toward white women in positions of intense power. The article argues that these two technologies of domination—visual culture that entertains its citizens and political practice...
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