...William Cunningham Bissell Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Camera Zanzibar William Cunningham Bissell In 1994, a sign advertising a new resort, the Mbweni Ruins Hotel, materialized I along the airport road...

.... And as if some patron saint of snuff films were there to answer those collective prayers, we suddenly had that footage. Not of Brown’s death in Ferguson. True. But even as folks were still in the streets protesting that shooting, a Staten Islander’s camera-phone video of Eric Garner being choked to death by one...

.... For while drug prohibition across the Americas has recently experienced a rush of new visual technologies, including body-worn camera systems, in-car camera technologies, and surveillance drones, Pentecostals in Guatemala City are far less concerned with comprehensive coverage than their state-affiliated...

... to this conversation, but gender justice has not. This essay takes an intersectional, gendered look at bodycam policies, challenging the assumption that officers will act more fairly when they know they are being recorded. Bodycam policies typically ensure that cameras are turned off during investigations of gendered...

.... I am also grateful for the helpful comments of David Rodowick and David Wang. Figure 1  Wang Jingyao and his camera. Photographed by Hu Jie arts in circulation Virtual Museums of Forbidden Memories: Hu Jie’s...

.... PHOTO-ESSAY The Blocked Gaze: A User’s Guide to Photographing the Separation Barrier-Wall Meir Wigoder Pointing the camera at the Israeli Separation Barrier-Wall involves a fundamental...

... Rothman, “Against the System of Suture,” Film Quarterly (Fall 1975); Stephen Heath, Questions of Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981). Continuity editing refers to the respect for the 180 degree rule in positioning the camera; the camera is positioned so that the cutting...

... Cherokee Souvenir , 2007 Figure 3. Cherokee Souvenir, 2007 Figure 2 Badlands (Christian Bus Group) , 2006 Figure 2. Badlands (Christian Bus Group), 2006 Figure 1 Plains , 2007 Figure 1. Plains, 2007 I couldn’t exactly remember what images were lost with the camera or why I...

... . “Skin-Flick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.” Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory 27 ( September ): 37 -54. Heath , Stephen . 1985 . “Jaws, Ideology, and Film Theory.” In Bill Nichols, ed., Movies and Methods Vol. 2 . Berkeley: University...

... Route 22 plays of light. The young girl looks directly at the camera and smiles, but in the very near distance things are out of focus—the chair sitting empty next to her, the window reflecting blurred images of what is both inside the house and outside in the woods. The woman sitting on the porch...

... broadcast. I’ve found that the key to good video is not the lines of resolution or the number of pixels or the particular camera used but an inventive and resourceful use of natural lighting, camera movement, and composition. A camera, whether it shoots video or film, is like a pencil. It can be used...

... OO shows a burly mustached man in a tank top, wearing aviation sunglasses. He proudly displays a photograph of a woman seated at a desk cluttered with papers, an ashtray, and a telephone. Her eyes smile at the camera lens; her friendliness is contrasted to the almost ominous dark background. He...

... to integrate the camera into their trip, waving and smiling as it panned by. The videographer divided her activities between recording images and performing basic in-camera editing procedures such as inserts, which are now relatively easy to do on con- sumer-format video cameras. By the end...

... simplistic and overstated.11 But more recent scholars, such as Christopher Pinney, who have 10. Judith Mara Gutman, Through Indian Eyes: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Pho- tography from India (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982). 11. E.g., by Christopher Pinney, Camera Indica...

...: bathing, dressing, eating, working. The pictures are not arty, rather more matter-of-fact. The plainly illuminated scenes are pho- tographed with an over-the-counter panoramic camera and printed in a standard size...

... 231 Public Culture pose in front of the cameras. I believe that the media have to expose the violence but that professionals working on this terrain have to be aware of the disputes sur- rounding these images and the ethical dilemmas they convey...

...Mayfair Mei-hui Yang Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago 1993 Literature Cited Berry , Chris . 1989 . “China's New Women's Cinema.” Camera Obscura 18 , pp. 4 –41. Berry , Chris . 1991 . “Market Forces: China's ‘Fifth Generation’ Faces the Bottom Line.” Pages...

... to see Shanghai. To optimize the visual distribution of Shanghai’s spectacular transfor- mations, we ask that you not waste a minute and allow SUPEH’s vision statements to instantly liberate you like a camera FLASH...