Camera Obscura articles from May 2001

Camera Obscura archives from May 2001

Martha Wilson: Not Taking It at Face Value.
May 1, 2001... Martha Wilson is an American who began to work as an artist in the early 1970s in Halifax, Canada, where she was affiliated with the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). In her conceptually based performance, video, and phototext...

"Wish We Didn't Have to Meet Secretly?": Negotiating Contemporary Space in the Lesbian-Bar Documentary.
May 1, 2001... In the introductory essay of "Lesbians and Film," a special section of Jump Cut published in 1981, editors Edith Becker, Michelle Citron, Julia Lesage, and B. Ruby Rich suggest that the growth, diversity, and success of the nascent practice of...

Pressure Points: Political Psychology, Screen Adaptation, and the Management of Racism in the Case-History Genre.
May 1, 2001... In 1962, Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin appeared as a prison psychiatrist and an American Nazi in Pressure Point (dir. Hubert Cornfield, US), a not particularly successful "social-problem film." Stanley Kramer, the film's producer, was a major...

The Body of Voyeurism: Mapping a Discourse of the Senses in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom.
May 1, 2001... The eye is not the mind, but a material organ. --Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception The visible caresses the eye. One sees and hears like one touches. --Emmanuel Levinas, Collected Philosophical Papers The...

Holiness Codes and Holy Homosexuals: Interpreting Gay and Lesbian Christian Subculture.
May 1, 2001... As gay and lesbian Christians, we are kind of in this catch-22 situation in terms of the way the religious Right responds to us but also the ways in which non-Christian folks from our own community respond to us. --Rev. Dr. Mona West ...

Erasure: Alienation, Paranoia, and the Loss of Memory in The X-Files.
May 1, 2001... I would say that the paranoiac is someone who, paradoxically, is threatened with losing his own limits. That is why he needs to provoke the other into becoming his persecutor. The other will thus protect him from the threat of dissipating like...

Black and White: Mercedes de Acosta's Glorious Enthusiasms.
May 1, 2001... A June 1934 Vanity Fair item highlighted for its readers the latest roles of movie royalty Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich as Queen Christina and Catherine the Great, respectively, with "a composite photograph by Edward Steichen," "ingeniously...

Books Received.
May 1, 2001... Allen, Michael. Family Secrets: The Feature Films of D. W. Griffith. London: British Film Institute, 1999. Altman, Rick. Film/Genre. London: British Film Institute, 1999 Berry, Sarah. Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s...