Camera Obscura articles from September 2000

Camera Obscura archives from September 2000

"Happy Ends" to Crises of Heterosexual Desire: Toward a Social Psychology of Recent German Comedies.
September 1, 2000... In the 1990s, a comedy wave swept over German film production, leaving a fundamentally transformed market in its wake. Assessments of how and why this genre developed and the kind of momentum it took on are only now emerging. Popular and...

Consuming the Other: Identity, Alterity, and Contemporary German Cinema.
September 1, 2000... It is understandable, then, that in our present age of digital reproduction and cultural globalization many believe that these notions of identity are progressively losing ground. Postmodern visual culture transplants us ever more aggressively...

Mourning, Sound, and Vision: Jean-Luc Godard's JLG/JLG.
September 1, 2000... Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image. --Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes I know now that if I make a picture it's just to speak about what I'm doing, about...

Turkish Cinema in the New Europe: Visualizing Ethnic Conflict in Sinan Cetin's Berlin in Berlin.
September 1, 2000... The Turkish media landscape underwent sweeping changes in the 1990s, the result of peripatetic shifts in political regimes and cultural norms within Turkey as well as of rapid technological advances and the decentralization of Turkish...

In a Desert Somewhere between Disney and Las Vegas: The Fantasy of Interracial Harmony and American Multiculturalism in Percy Adlon's Bagdad Cafe.
September 1, 2000... Bagdad Cafe's original German title, Out of Rosenheim (dir. Percy Adlon, West Germany, 1988) makes the main character's hometown of Rosenheim in Bavaria a point of departure. The film's point of arrival is a vision of interracial harmony and...

Teutonic Water: Effervescent Otherness in Doris Dorrie's Nobody Loves Me.
September 1, 2000... INTERVIEWER: DO you believe in the multicultural society? SALMAN RUSHDIE: What is the alternative? Do we all want to live in little boxes? --Claus Leggewie, Multi Kulti (1993) An early scene in Doris Dorrie's Keiner liebt mich...

Books Received.
September 1, 2000... Allan, Robin. Walt Disney and Europe: European Influences on the Animated Feature Films of Walt Disney. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. Barker, Deborah. Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell...