Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
/10.1215_02705346-9349483/3/s_cob9349483figure1.png?Expires=1704929669&Signature=l0SYk8hpnTw8fQZSBVDaZ8x2ZNkh-kinUsQ2z1iaWnC6MEQX~b1Z9bfpjHQk3amlPVKWShRb4QY0w~23FuG4vCc6EUwCPNRpo5bQ6TrbLyCPDjNFoV33FyYkBFYG1a5IjNSACzsY1KxLC67aZyuOa4GekJNSmYRyHSNky22xAAP~lty18R-KYVfqKtaP21h9eQ2EAWulwevceuLaV3-komgKh9lVOwNQ7FmkvTKn-mWJS54q2EWuG1vbWIMk3hDDj0cfhrtFxoQagQe7L36x0f8zZhWINW63RvKChFfqYoP4csVMNizjVr4twq1Twfs9c7aq5LBHYwrrbLGvWVhHGA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
1-20 of 731 Search Results for
year
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 27–63.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Marc Francis This article examines a series of recent films that seeks to represent the often conflated categories of asexuality and singlehood. The films (A)sexual (dir. Angela Tucker, US, 2011), Year of the Dog (dir. Mike White, US, 2007), and Bill Cunningham New York (dir. Richard Press, US...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 60–87.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Anjo-marí Gouws Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary (UK, 1982) is a multimodal project that comprises cinematic, written, audio, and food diaries that span almost forty years of the artist’s life. This article focuses on how gendered labor gets taken up in the diary project and contrasts...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 145–153.
Published: 01 September 2012
... with the Israeli consulate's marketing campaign “Brand Israel” in the presentation of a city-to-city spotlight on Tel Aviv cinema (known as the Tel Aviv Spotlight); and the 2010 Pride Awards Give-Back, in which twenty-two recipients of various Pride Toronto awards from the past ten years gave back their awards...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 145–151.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Sarah Keller; Patricia White Abstract In this interview, Patricia White and Sarah Keller talk with Barbara Hammer's partner for over thirty years, Florrie Burke, who in multiple ways has helped keep Hammer's work present in the art world after her death in 2019. In the interview, Burke discusses...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2015
... in collaboration with Los Angeles choreographer and actress Toni Basil. Shot over a period of two years in Santa Monica, BREAKAWAY draws from Conner and Basil's mutual involvement in both the Hollywood entertainment industry and the West Coast artistic underground through its curious fusion of pop and avant-garde...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Linda Liu Many US horror films made within the last thirty years feature haunted real estate narratives involving histories of land usurpation, territorial displacement, and other violence inflicted on socially marginalized groups. Insofar as the aftereffects of these histories recurrently manifest...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 161–187.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Mauro Resmini This article examines a recent tendency in contemporary art cinema—the New French Extremity (NFE)—and focuses specifically on a critique of the scholarly discourse that has flourished around it in recent years. The fundamental argument of this discourse can be summarized as follows...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of cooperative action proliferated. In the last ten to fifteen years, a growing constellation of collectives, many international, has emerged in response to new social, economic, and technological conditions. This issue explores the potentials and challenges of collectivity through pieces—both full-length...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 141–151.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Jihoon Kim This article examines a series of video works by Okin Collective, a group of three Korean artists (Jin Shiu, Kim Hwayong, and Yi Joungmin) who have over the past few years been productively concerned with an array of political, social, and cultural issues from both local and global...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 165–175.
Published: 01 December 2016
... audiences with a contemporary vision of queer feminism that embraces a multitude of gender expressions. This approach can be understood in the context of the cultural changes to lesbian and queer communities over the past twenty years, shaped by the growing visibility and inclusion of transgender politics...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 89–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the femininity of the brand according to masculine values and cultures. The femininity of the thirty-year-old series is placed in historical and theoretical context, illustrating parallels between current and earlier incarnations of the franchise and its continuities with other women-centered popular media...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 117–151.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Ora Gelley The French director Catherine Breillat has in recent years become a kind of figurehead for what has been perceived by many as a new trend in contemporary European cinema toward extreme representations of violence and graphic sexuality. As a consequence of the controversy provoked...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 59–79.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Julia Vassilieva This article explores the work of young Russian female director Valeria Gai Germanika. Germanika has gained a public profile over the last ten years through documentary shorts such as Sisters ( Syostry , 2005), Girls ( Devochki , 2005), and Boys ( Malchiki , 2007); feature film...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
... overidentified with the particularly racialized, classed, and gendered figure of the couch potato has been remade in recent years as an engine of “leaner” citizenship? Situating this turn in genre and address against the backdrop of shifting corporeal ideals in late liberalism as well as developments in media...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of cooperative action proliferated. In the last ten to fifteen years, a new constellation of collectives, many international, has emerged in response to new social, economic, and technological conditions. This issue explores the potentials and challenges of collectivity through pieces—both full-length analyses...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 153–163.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Elizabeth Coffman; Erica Stein New Day Films was formed in 1972 as a feminist media collective to distribute films addressing gender issues. Forty years later, New Day boasts close to two hundred members and yearly distribution profits of $1 million. This article uses New Day's history...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Despina Kakoudaki While there has been more critical attention on Pedro Almodóvar's films in recent years, his narrative craft has not been extensively studied, even as he is frequently described as one of the most creative and unconventional storytellers of the contemporary screen. This article...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 37–65.
Published: 01 May 2009
... billion images in the past four years alone. The writings of media theorist Mark Hansen offer a provocative starting point to explore how a desire for racial neutrality can lead to the unintentional repression of important forms of cultural difference. Two models of ethics, grounded in the writings...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 29–67.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Sangita Gopal; Sujata Moorti In the years since its release, Moulin Rouge! (dir. Baz Luhrmann, 2001) has emerged as the harbinger of Bollywood cinema's growing visibility in the West. We argue here that while the film's visual excesses are immediately recognizable as citing “Bollywood style...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., and capitalism organized around the belief in the successful democratization of consumer markets and media. Thanks to liberalization policies and technological innovations in the past twenty years or so, more people than ever before can access the resources and rights associated with these institutions...
1
