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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 137–159.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Claire Perkins At first glance, the US indie sector appears to defy Manohla Dargis's 2008 identification of a “new, post-female American cinema.” A significant number of women directors develop female-driven films in the industrial and aesthetic space between mainstream and avant-garde...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
Published: 01 December 2009
... in reference formats (e.g., encyclopedias of women filmmakers) or by being articulated as a subgenre of national or regional cinemas (e.g., women directors in Mexico or the Middle East). This essay engages the problem of the world—gender and location in relation to feminisms' legacies—in relation to the role...
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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 (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 (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 127–153.
Published: 01 May 2021
... for the First Time,” Women and Hollywood , 16 January 2019, womenandhollywood.com/upholding-gender-parity-pledge-cannes-unveils-selection-committee-for-the-first-time/. 40. Andreas Wiseman, “Cannes: Record-Tying Four Films by Women Directors in Competition Signals Slow Progress,” Deadline , 18 April...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Transnationalism
of Queer Asian Cinema:
Female Authorship and the
Short Film Format
Olivia Khoo
Critical approaches to Asian women directors are shaped within
the evolving disciplinary formation of Asian cinema, which so far
has privileged auteurism as the dominant framework in defining...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 142–153.
Published: 01 December 2020
... for films with strong box office potential, referred to as market funding, and only one female director received funding in the five highest tiers of support. As a report from the institute concludes, the resources distributed between men and women remain strikingly uneven.8 Serner s efforts to address...
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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)
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Stephanie Rothman Does
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
... by
Cheryl’s discovery that Fae was herself romantically involved with
a famous white female director from classical Hollywood, Martha
Page (clearly modeled on Dorothy Arzner). The romances between
black and white women in the film, represented as less than ideal,
function in part to examine the racial...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to subvert. Breillat’s
strategic violence, along with that of directors such as Despentes
(with whom she is frequently associated), has provoked reactions of
outrage as well as accusations that the portrayal of violence against
women in her films is perverse, sensationalist, excessively graphic...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 5–31.
Published: 01 May 2014
... that critique the masculine underpinnings of art cinema. Central to this reading of Bier's director image and her films are the increasingly transnational dimensions of women's film practice and the broader decentering of paradigms of national cinema over the past two decades. Belinda Smaill is a senior...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that “it was time to hear from Māori women about this issue.” 13 With McNaughton, Warkia brought together nine Māori women—Ainsley Gardiner (writer-director), Briar Grace-Smith (writer-director), Paula Jones (writer-director), Casey Kaa (writer-director), Renae Maihi (writer-director), Awanui Simich-Pene...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (3 (18)): 8–19.
Published: 01 September 1988
...
in Beijing. Participating were various Chinese film scholars and critics,
as well as many women directors. The published report of the con•
ference is the major text on "women's cinema" available to date. 1
In the opening section of the report, the sudden growth ill numbers
and in prominence of Chinese...
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in Agnès Varda and Le Collectif 50/50 en 2020: Power and Protest at the Cannes Film Festival
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 9. 50/50 en 2020, “Cannes Film Festival Board of Directors,” in “The Role of Women in the Cannes Festival's Competition—A Comparative Study,” collectif5050.com/en/study/cannes
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 61–91.
Published: 01 September 2012
...-director Johnson and producer Darryl F. Zanuck's eventual taming of Jones's power on the set mirrored the script's struggles between Betsy and her husband. But an analysis of the film and its production contexts also highlights the consequences of creating a masculine melodrama in a system that depended...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Tania Modleski This article looks at theories of melancholia to analyze “bromantic” comedies of the kind often associated with film producer, director, and writer Judd Apatow. Taking its title from the references to the film An Affair to Remember (dir. Leo McCarey, US, 1957) that run through...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 49–73.
Published: 01 December 2018
... ( The All-Around Reduced Personality—Redupers , West Germany, 1978), and Berlin School director Angela Schanelec’s Marseille (Germany, 2004). Examining each film’s attitude toward photography through the lens of Siegfried Kracauer’s postwar theory of film realism, this article relates the politics...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 103–131.
Published: 01 September 2019
.../France, 2012). It explores how one of the most prominent contemporary feminist filmmakers, whose work celebrates the life and activism of revolutionary women from Rosa Luxemburg to Gudrun Ensslin from the Red Army Faction, transforms the “historical Arendt” into a “cinematic Arendt.” Although...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 153–162.
Published: 01 December 2009
...),
they show far better statistics on women directors than Hollywood.2
The current festival corpus represents a transnational, multigen-
erational, multiformat arena of women’s filmmaking responsive to
patterns of financing, distribution, and exhibition that challenge,
even as they are determined...
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in Agnès Varda and Le Collectif 50/50 en 2020: Power and Protest at the Cannes Film Festival
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 6. 50/50 en 2020, “Female Directors Selected in Competition,” 1946–2018, in “The Role of Women in the Cannes Festival's Competition—A Comparative Study,” collectif5050.com/en/study/cannes
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