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Camera Obscura

Subject Areas: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
SJR: 18

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Zhang Nuanxin and Social Commitment in 1980s Chinese Women’s Experimental Cinema

Wang, Lingzhen

2019 Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies

doi:10.1215/02705346-7772363

In December 1978, the Chinese government formally laid out its economic reform policy, thereby marking the beginning of a new post-Mao era. As economic reform deepened around the mid-1980s, the state began to openly retreat from its former socialist commitments—including the institutionalized...
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Sitting Closer to the Screen: Early Televisual Address, the Unsettling of the Domestic Sphere, and Close Reading Historical TV

Barth, Josie Torres

2019 Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies

doi:10.1215/02705346-7772375

This article makes a case for formal analysis of historical TV through close readings that demonstrate the ways in which postwar television unsettled the domestic sphere. While scholars of historical television have dismissed formal criticism for its ignorance of contexts of production and...
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“Light Filtering through Those Shutters”: Joyless Streets, Mnemic Symbols, and the Beginnings of Feminist Film Criticism

Troxell, Jenelle

2019 Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies

doi:10.1215/02705346-7772387

This article examines the origin myth of the feminist film journal Close Up, namely, an excursion by its founders Bryher and H.D. to see G. W. Pabst’s Die freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street, 1925) in a small cinema in Montreux, Switzerland. Throughout the essay, I use Joyless Street as a case...
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Three by Three: Lisa Cholodenko’s Attachment Trilogy

Wallace, Lee

2019 Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies

doi:10.1215/02705346-7772399

Lisa Cholodenko’s three films High Art (US, 1998), Laurel Canyon (US, 2002), and The Kids Are All Right (US, 2010) all tell the same story: a sexual and emotional ingenue arrives in a tightly circumscribed social world that both resembles and departs from a conventional family. At its heart is an...
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Whatever Happened to Janet Wood? Women Story Editors in 1950s Television

Berke, Annie

2019 Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies

doi:10.1215/02705346-7772411

This article places 1950s women story editors in television in the context of the studio system and explains the particular labor of the story and script editors in film and TV. It examines the extant records and archival sources (including newspapers, industry trade publications, and internal...
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Opening Statements: Theme Singing and Shifting Paradigms for Voicing Feminine Subjectivities as Television Music

Vesey, Alyxandra

2019 Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies

doi:10.1215/02705346-7772431

This article argues that more scholarly attention should be paid to women’s contributions to the practice of “theme singing,” or the textual and industrial practices of using vocalists as sonic proxies for television characters by articulating programs’ thematic concerns and embodying their tonal...

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