...Jeanne Allen Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Palaces of Consumption as Women’s Club: En-countering Women’s Labor History and Feminist Film Criticism ]eanne Allen As leading promoters of consumer culture in the United States, the department...

... 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...

...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...

... 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 of Beirut Laura...

...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 is currently...

... Like Women Two Types of Fetishism in The Big Lebowski Brian Wall It is the hardest thing in the world to be a materialist. In theory, that is — as a theorist. Even though thought seems irreducible in its linguistic and even imagistic materiality, nonetheless, in theor- etical...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... ABC. 1971 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...

...Lisa Cartwright Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Highlights aztd Shadows (James Sibley Watson for Kodak Research Laboratories, USA, 1937) Women, X-rays, and the Public Culture of Prophylactic Imaging Lisa Cat-twright The...

...Lisbeth Gant-Britton Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Molzday’s Girls (Ngozi Onwurah, 1993) African Women and Visual Culture: A Sample Syllabus Lis beth Gant-Britton Go to any cinema in the United States-or other western country for that matter-and the odds...

...Christina Creveling © 1976 by Camera Obscura 1976 Women Working This section is intended to give information about and provide a space for some filmmakers who are little known or simply notknown in this country. The comments are provided so as to try to give an idea of what the film...

...Chantal Akerman; Christina Creveling © 1977 by Camera Obscura 1977 Women Working CHANTAL AKERMAN News From Home (1976) 16mm; color; sound A film of images of New York City, what you see every day when you live there. Akerman left Belgium one day when she was twenty, without...

...Marc Silberman © 1983 by Camera Obscura 1983 Women Working Women Filmmakers in West Germany: A Catalog (Part 2) Marc Silberman Since completing the first installment of this catalog in 1980, women directors have released many new films in West Germany.' This...

...Diane Waldman; Janet Walker Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985 Book Reviews Is the Gaze Maternal?: E. Ann Kaplan’s Women and FiZm: Both Sides of the Camera Dime WaZdman andJanet WaZher It has been over two years since the publication of E. Ann Kaplan’s Women...

...Lynn Spigel Copyright © 1985 by Camera Obscura 1985 Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski’s Loving with a Engeance: Mass-Prodgced Fantasies for Women Lynn S’igel Loving With a Vengeance’ is an attempt to locate a collective feminine fantasy in ‘mass-produced...

...Robert H. Deming Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Kate and Allie Kate and Allie: "New Women" and the Audience's Television Archive Robert H. Deming Network television rediscovered the "new woman" again in the Fall 1984 season. Several prime...

...Ien Ang Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 ." Z Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure: On Janice Radway's Reading the Romance: Women~ Patriarchy and Popular Literature (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press...

...Rhona Berenstein Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Remembering History: Films by Women at the 1989 Toronto Film Festival Rhona Berenstein . . . the textual construction (written filmic, etc.) of discursive spaces in which not Woman but women...