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... to clarify why we went on strike, explain how the resulting contract has fallen short, and emphasize how the Camera Obscura collective has shown solidarity and will remain committed to supporting labor movements in future. Figure 1. Academic workers at the UC Santa Barbara picket line on day one...

... (Tijuana, Baja California) and chronicles the lives of maquiladora workers who experience firsthand the debilitating effects of development driven by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) along the Mexico-US border. The making of the film coincided with the global economic crisis of 2001, when...

... in the first place. In focusing on Lesbian Factory (dir. Susan Chen, 2010), a documentary by the Taiwan International Workers’ Association on the collaborative effort of Taiwanese activists and queer Filipina migrant workers to push for better migrant labor rights, this article tracks how the documentary...

... of their political actions and educational segments edited together in their newsreel compilation film, Le film de la Femme nouvelle (dir. la Femme nouvelle, France, 1935), the suffragists, led by Louise Weiss, frame themselves as essential workers, fearless political actors, and perfect housewives...

... a critical lens comes out of my concern that gay media history has lionized figures like Rocco on the basis of capitalist measures of success while leaving behind those workers whose labor was instrumental to that success. Inspired by the recent work of Heather Berg that demonstrates how contemporary sex...

... platoon and was distinguished for his courage and leadership on the battlefield. Given a square deal, Judge could be a darn good worker. Perhaps even a darn good supervisor. But Al Judge is becoming part of “the hard-core unemployed.” al judge: —the first thing I would do is calm a man down because...

..., a model of the “happy ending,” depicts the emotional reconciliation of the employer with his workers, brought about by the employer’s son, who, with the blessing of Maria, the pure young woman who is soon to be- come his wife, assumes the role of Mediator (Mittler in German). The film drew harsh...

... 1 But, what's that? WI Ub, it's the look! M 1 Well, that's how it is! W 1 Yes, but there's something wrong in all that . .. uh, I dunno, we've got to think of something ! Comment cava?is a film about two workers in a newspaper plant who are attempting to make a video-film...

.... Do her factory settings function as critical parodies that condemn the exploitation of workers’ bodies or as utopian simulacra of factories in which alternative modes of labor are imagined and staged? Do they critique capitalism’s constraints on the body, or do they allego- rize...

...Jean-Luc Godard Copyright © 1982 by Camera Obscura 1982 Passion (Love and Work) Jean-Luc Godard A small provincial village in a region out of the way and yet modern. A factory with some twenty female workers, young for the most part, who accept any salary as long...

... workers in the cloth trade. The elements I refer to will be indicative rather than exemplary of the film, without attempting to cover all its themes and concerns, since in any case the film refuses a synthesis of its project which would enable a more encompassing review...

..., the disorder of which reduced the ability of the workers and students who dwelt therein to function efficiently in the workplace and in school. While popular discourse about the effects of narrative film fretted over whether movies were produc- ing antisocial tendencies in children, Gilbreth was arguing...

.... Others, among the intellectuals, will say, “This will never appeal to non-college-educated viewers.” My last documentary production, El Crucero, presents the rural farm workers of Nicaragua as revolutionary intellectuals shaping their work process and new...

... nor Appiah address is the degree to which many of the films made in the last decade and a half featuring magical black men specifically concern white men whose lives as workers in some way require revision. Indeed, one of the “realis- tic” elements of the films incorporating black magical men...

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...). But what makes the taxi driver notice that his passenger is a travesti is not any element of her appearance; instead it is her use of a language that is unintelligible to his ears. His transphobic diatribe comes after he hears her asking a sex worker on the streets, “¿Hasara visiritoxoro a la...

...’ performances convey the fatigue of workers who labor in the factory during the day and perform onstage at night. Brecht values their performances not as skilled acting but as exhausted rehearsals revealing the capitalist division of energy. The power- ful performances at work in the cinema of Straub...

... chain. Gede even seems to deny the seaweed's status as a commodity—i.e., produced for exchange to generate profit. By repeatedly highlighting that the seaweed farm is family-owned and run, the film seems to suggest that the workers of the farm (including Gede) are not subject to exploitation...

... and her own recol- lections, Weber fashioned a particular vision of the filmmaker as social worker, literally substituting her own gaze in place of Addams’s fieldwork. Moreover, by emphasizing her evangelical history, and indeed posing filmmaking as the logical corollary of missionary work, Weber...