Camera Obscura articles from June 2004

Camera Obscura archives from June 2004

Peter (A Young English Girl): visualizing transgender masculinities.(Cover Story)
June 1, 2004... "To be myself... I need the illumination of other people's eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self." --Bernard from Virginia Woolf's The Waves In 1992-93, an exhibition titled Visualising Masculinities was...

Diva traffic and male bonding in film:teaching opera, learning gender, race, and nation.
June 1, 2004... In the influential Between Men, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick points to "male homosocial desire" as the potentially erotic "continuum between homosocial and homosexual" that is the normal structure of all gender relations. (1) Sedgwick's analysis is...

Hook and eye: violence and the captive gaze.
June 1, 2004... Man... may, in a certain sense, be affirmed to consist of two parts, the external and the internal. The form which his actions assume is one thing; the principle from which they flow is another. With the former it is possible we should be...

Free indirect affect in Cassavetes' Opening Night and Faces.
June 1, 2004... How to make the affect echo? --Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes In the Middle of Things: Opening Night John Cassavetes' Opening Night (US, 1977) begins not with the curtain going up, but backstage. In the first...

Lois Weber, progressive cinema, and the fate of "The Work-a-Day Girl" in Shoes.
June 1, 2004... A profile of filmmaker Lois Weber published shortly after the release of her 1916 film Shoes (US) celebrated her ability to "set forth in a dignified and dramatic manner some of the complex questions which are challenging intelligent thinkers...

Books received.
June 1, 2004... Acevedo-Munoz, Ernesto. Bunuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Desai, Jigna. Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film. NewYork:...