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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...
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in Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1. A Gotham street scene and Barbara at computer in her bedroom. “Oracle: Year One; Born of Hope,” The Batman Chronicles , no. 5 (Summer 1996), 7. Scan provided by the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection at Michigan State University
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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...
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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...
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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...
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in Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and Representations of the User in Popular Culture
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 2. Barbara stretching and flexing, wearing a stripy sweater, facing a computer monitor and keyboard. “Oracle: Year One; Born of Hope,” The Batman Chronicles , no. 5 (Summer 1996), 9. Scan provided by the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection at Michigan State University
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2011
... liminal. Through close readings of The Seven Year Itch, Blue Velvet, Three Little Pigs , and The Empire Strikes Back , I track the range of meaning found in cinematic breathing, from the figurative presence of erotic breath in pornography to the literal associations of air and environment in animation...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 123–130.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Francesca Coppa Vidding is a thirty-year-old remix practice in which predominantly female media fans reedit television or film into music videos. Vidding is important not only as an art form in its own right but also as a subcultural — and often feminist — reinterpretation of and confrontation...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 131–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Francesca Coppa; Rebecca Tushnet Vidding is a thirty-year-old remix practice in which predominantly female media fans reedit television or film into music videos. Vidding is important not only as an art form in its own right but also as a subcultural — and often feminist — reinterpretation...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 139–146.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Kristina Busse; Alexis Lothian Vidding is a thirty-year-old remix practice in which predominantly female media fans reedit television or film into music videos. Vidding is important not only as an art form in its own right but also as a subcultural — and often feminist — reinterpretation...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 39–67.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Chris Dumas The problem of the “it was all a dream” structure is considered, particularly in reference to its appearance in the year 1953. This article compares three films featuring the dream structure — Robot Monster (dir. Phil Tucker, US), The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (dir. Roy Rowland, US...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 137–147.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Tess Takahashi This article examines the legacy of issues of representation in the International Experimental Media Congress held in Toronto in April of 2010, twenty years after the contentious 1989 International Experimental Film Congress. On the surface, the two events embraced the same stated...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Lucy Fischer More than fifty years after the death of experimental filmmaker Maya Deren on 13 October 1961, this essay attempts to grapple with her complex legacy. While numerous scholars have already provided in-depth studies of Deren's films, writings, and biography, this article seeks to take...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 109–149.
Published: 01 September 2013
... programming of the early 1970s and the flashy “jiggle television” of the last years of the decade, Mary Hartman was able to bring subtlety and compassion to television content, but it also told viewers that they had a voice in industry conversations about the meaning and potential of television; it did so...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 93–115.
Published: 01 December 2014
... adolescent in the early years of democracy in the 1980s, and finally, to an accommodating accomplice of neoliberalism in the 1990s. Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez is professor of Spanish at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He is the author of a book on Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea...
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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...
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