Camera Obscura articles from September 1 1999

Camera Obscura archives from September 1 1999

"Fat Man Walking": Masculinity and Racial Geographies in James Mangold's Copland(1).(Critical Essay)
September 1, 1999... In Hard Bodies, Susan Jeffords argues that the Reagan era was characterized by an uncommonly close link between the Presidency and the narratives, stars, and iconography of Hollywood film. The action film, with its polarized moral universe and...

Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure in Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 1999... In one of the earliest discussions of poststructuralism to appear in English, "Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to any Subject Whatever," Jacques Lacan puts across a notion of structure that would henceforth have...

Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 1999... Seldom has a contemporary US "teen flick" risen to the levels of both critical and commercial popularity attained by Amy Heckering's 1995 film Clueless, an Americanized and updated version of Jane Austen's novel Emma.(1) One of four Austen film...

Mother Talk: Maternal Masquerade and the Problem of the Single Girl.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 1999... With the advent and spread of cyberspace technologies, much has been made of how sexual differences play out in this new frontier, particularly since the flexible parameters of screen identity provide an anonymity that offers room for gender...

Machinehead.(the technology of killing in Stanley Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket')(Critical Essay)
September 1, 1999... Stop me if you've heard this. There was a Marine of nuts and bolts, half robot--weird but true--whose every move was cut from pain as though from stone. Gustav Hasford The Short-Timers "The Marine Corps does not want robots. It wants...

"The Secret's in the Sauce": Dismembering Normativity in Fried Green Tomatoes.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 1999... I'm sure you'll acquire a taste for it, your mother did. Father to son in Parents(1) My mother just ate my father. She's never done anything like this before! Character in Flesh-Eating Mothers(2) Girls, it doesn't look like...

Books Received.(Bibliography)
September 1, 1999... Film/Genre by Rick Altman. British Film Institute, 1999. Where is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile by Jane Blocker. Duke UP, 1999. Inside the Gaze: The Fiction Film and its Spectator by Francesco Casetti. Indiana UP,...