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Camera Obscura Volume 23 Issue 2 68

Subject Areas: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Publisher: Duke Univ Press - Duke University Press
ISSN: 0270-5346
SJR: 18

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World without Strangers: The Poetics of Coincidence in Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her

Kakoudaki, Despina

2008 Camera Obscura

doi:10.1215/02705346-2008-001

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 explores...
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Histories of The Watermelon Woman: Reflexivity between Race and Gender

Zimmer, Catherine

2008 Camera Obscura

doi:10.1215/02705346-2008-002

This essay explores Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman (1997) in the context of reflexive practice in film. The film has been variously approached as queer cinema, women's autobiographical and documentary cinema, and black cinema; this essay emphasizes how one might add to all of these...
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Learning to Love What Passes: Sensual Perception, Temporal Transformation, and Epistemic Production in Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life

McKim, Kristi

2008 Camera Obscura

doi:10.1215/02705346-2008-003

Hirokazu Kore-eda's 1998 film After Life stylistically cites canonical Japanese films (especially that of Yasujiro Ozu), while heralding the cinema's role in both photogenically defamiliarizing the familiar and naturalizing the new. Set in a way station between heaven and earth and alternating...
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Male Weeping as Performative: The Crying Mossad Assassin in Walk on Water

Hagin, Boaz

2008 Camera Obscura

doi:10.1215/02705346-2008-004

The article examines the trope of the crying male in contemporary Israeli fiction films as it appears near the end of the 2004 feature film Walk on Water, written by Gal Uchovsky and directed by Eytan Fox. It suggests, employing various accounts of crying, melodrama, and performative speech, that...
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Tactics of Tears: Excess/Erasure in the Gay Chinese Melodramas of Fleeing by Night and Lan Yu

Chan, Kenneth

2008 Camera Obscura

doi:10.1215/02705346-2008-005

By first looking at the gay consumption of melodrama, this essay presents the notion of tears as a political trope to negotiate the reclamation of crying from being a signifier of gendered/sexual “weakness” to one of tactical empowerment, a tactics of tears. Gay political readings of melodrama,...

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