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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 5. Digital print on watercolor paper produced in Microsoft Word, edition of 5, 22 × 17 in., 2020. Courtesy of Shaheer Zazai
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 7–10.
Published: 01 September 1990
...Raymond Bellour; Elisabeth Lyon Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 The Power of Words, The Power of Images
Raymond Bellour
Depending on one’s choice of chronology and emphasis, two essential
things have been happening for ten, twenty, thirty years...
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in Self-Suspension in Frames: Hito Steyerl's Lovely Andrea
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 7. “You are connected to other people through the net.” Osada Steve's words as Spider-Man weaves his way through Manhattan. Lovely Andrea (dir. Hito Steyerl, Japan/Austria/Germany, 2007). Courtesy of the artist
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 99–111.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... Writing her personal history in images and words, Aker-man explores the meaning of Jewishness and other ethnicities threatened by death while reaching out to her mother as a daughter whose being has always been shadowed by legacy and history. The essay explores intertextual resonances of the installation...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 197–217.
Published: 01 May 2019
...), interwoven with Chantal’s voice from her novel A Family in Brussels (1998) in what Sonia describes as “when I played and Chantal wrote, the images mingled with the words, and the words with the music.” Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019 Chantal Akerman Sonia Wieder-Atherton music and film...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 155–160.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and homosexual desire, I espouse a narrative about the dualities of representing Palestinian queerness. I argue that the very nature of Palestinian daily life is queer. That is, if we utilize the word in the now anachronistic adjectival sense whereby the word queer describes a sense of strange(ness) or even...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (3 (69)): 137–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... as a strategy for the containment of desire, since desire itself is already constituted through imitation. In other words, one cannot fail to become—if only in a partial, incomplete way—what one imitates. Frank's “becoming gay” would appear to drive his violent acting out against men, women, and music...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., a return to Austinian speech-act theory reminds us that the performative act strives to make real what is not yet real, to conjure forth and to confirm a new reality. In other words, the performative seeks to essentialize, to assert new truths at the level of the self and make them stick. In Hammer's films...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 65–91.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Iveta Jusová; Dan Reyes Stylized, irreverent, and iconographically ambiguous, the 1969 Czech New Wave film The Fruit of Paradise ( Ovoce stromů rajských jíme , dir. Věra Chytilová) has frequently left even admiring audiences at a loss for words. In our reading, we take this film's intense...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., in the words of Judith Butler, as “ungrievable and unacknowledged losses.” Same-sex desire becomes “an affair to forget.” In the bromance Superbad (dir. Greg Mottola, US, 2007), however, homosexual possibility comes to the fore, so that melancholia actually turns into mourning for the lost male object...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2017
... homosexuality that it evidences, it simultaneously renders race invisible. The figure of Truman Capote thus becomes a kind of historical shorthand for the nexus of whiteness, male homosexuality, and effeminacy. In other words, the depiction of Capote’s midcentury gay effeminacy in Infamous functions...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (2 (98)): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2018
... reallyism : a nonce word meant to signal, through the prosthetic addition of a cheeky syllable, the both/and of genuine realism as augmented by ly rical (or sil ly ) escapes from it. Where the “reallyism” of limited cel animation is more particularly concerned, formal repetition and banality make present...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 91–97.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of working, especially on documentary and installation pieces; her preference for frontal shots; her lack of interest in rules, realism, and character psychology; and her humor. The tribute closes with the filmmaker’s own words on her last film, No Home Movie (Belgium/France, 2015). Copyright © 2019 Camera...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Peggy Phelan Abstract This commemorative essay considers Carolee Schneemann's voice as expressed through performative utterances and written words, with particular focus on Interior Scroll (1975). The essay argues that the performance's documentation in photographs, the primary means...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 149–175.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... It argues that Tumblr encourages its users to draw on the fragmentary, potentially incoherent pieces of information they regularly encounter on the site in order to collectively create narratives that can accommodate them. In other words, Tumblr's platform characteristics produce a queer temporality...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 145–177.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Appropriate Behavior (UK/US, 2014), through the lens of citational practice. The author argues that Akhavan employs citational codes that function in Clare Hemmings's words as a “storytelling tactic,” sustaining normative narratives about feminism's recent past. By employing an ambivalent trope...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 204–205.
Published: 01 September 1990
... into words everything
appears rather too neat, don’t you think?
Vol. 2. Terayama to Tanikawa
Sounds of piano playing are heard.
September 10th
Thank you for your video letter. Mr. Tanikawa, you say that everything
becomes neat when put into words. But sometimes things just have...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 206–215.
Published: 01 September 1990
... fragmented
and thus relative, it always steers toward an ideal vanishing point, an
empty place around which its words can come together, because it
was here that they came into being (for example, the empty bed in
Fridiric Mitterand’s Lettres d’amour en Somalie). And even when the
letter becomes...
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 30–41.
Published: 01 May 1981
...
this essay can be traced to a phenomenon Metz himself describes in an
early part of “MetaphorlMetonymy”: we are ourselves victims of a
rhetorical figure “which Charles Bally called ?vocation par le milieu
whereby “words are colored by qualities which pertain to their orig-
inal users, or those who...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (3 (51)): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2002
... protracted affair. It requires the full
length of Histoire(s) du cinéma and an exploration of the nature of
history itself—not just the history of cinema, but also of what
Godard at one point calls “the big history.” The French word his-
toire(s) conventionally signifies two different things: “story...
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