Camera Obscura articles from June 2002

Camera Obscura archives from June 2002

Regulating mobility: technology, modernity, and feature-length narrativity in Traffic in Souls.
June 1, 2002... The first two decades of moving-picture history offer numerous examples of films and industrial practices that give insight into the cinema's complex position within the expanding network of technological modernity. (1) From the cinema's...

"Cinema at its source": synchronizing race and sound in the early talkies.
June 1, 2002... One of MGM's publicity photos for King Vidor's Hallelujah! (US, 1929) features two of its stars, Victoria Spivey and Daniel Haynes, looking at a piece of the movie's soundtrack. Entitled "Pictures of Their Voices," the studio's caption...

Women in motion: Loie Fuller and the "interpenetration" of art and science.
June 1, 2002... A modern woman, filled with the modern spirit... she is no virgin, silly and ignorant of her destiny; she is an experienced but pure woman, in rapid movement like the spirit of the age, with fluttering garments and streaming hair, striding...

In the archives of lesbian feelings: documentary and popular culture.
June 1, 2002... Every lesbian is worthy of inclusion in history. If you have the courage to touch another woman, then you area very famous person. --Joan Nestle, Not Just Passing Through Perhaps to the surprise of those who think of both traditional...

Bringing up Babe.
June 1, 2002... Can or should we understand the "anthropological" model of aesthetic practices as separate from Babe? And what methodologies will address these concerns?--Sylvia Kolbowski, "Questions for Feminism" The 1995 film Babe (dir. Chris Noonan,...

A blustery day for a baby: technologies of family formation in Twister.
June 1, 2002... I have erred against every common-place notion of decorum; I have been open and sincere where I ought to have been reserved, spiritless, dull, and deceitful--had I talked only of the weather and the roads... this reproach would have been...

Books received.
June 1, 2002... Alister, Ian, and Christopher Hauke, eds. Jung and Film: Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image. Hove, UK: Brunner-Routledge, 2001. Azhgikhina, Nadezhda, and Meredith Tax. The Power of the Word II: Women's Voices and the New European...