Camera Obscura articles from September 2001

Camera Obscura archives from September 2001

The Name above the (Sub)Title: Internationalism, Coproduction, and Polyglot European Art Cinema.
September 1, 2001... Dubbing is not only a technique, it's also an ideology. In a dubbed film, there is not the least rapport between what you see and what you hear. The dubbed cinema is the cinema of lies, mental laziness and violence, because it gives no space to...

History Is Not a Matter of Generations: Interview with Harun Farocki.
September 1, 2001... Translation by Sabine Czylwik European cinema is in transformation. The geopolitical changes of the European map as well as the new transnational economy have altered the politics of film. To provide reflections on these transformations...

Hip-Hop Cinema in France.
September 1, 2001... Thanks to Hugues Bazin's book, La culture hip-hop,(1) the existence of hip-hop in France has been brought to light as an authentic cultural movement with its own philosophy and moral perspective. Hip-hop brings together a number of artistic...

Rape and War, Gender and Nation, Victims and Victimizers: Helke Sander's BeFreier und Befreite.
September 1, 2001... I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say that the fear of death I endured in the process of being raped was even worse than the rape itself.... The rapes inflicted harm that can never be made good, in a human and in a political sense.... Other...

A Multicultural Conversation: La Haine, Rai, and Menace II Society.
September 1, 2001... Since the 1980s, studies of contemporary French culture have been taking note of working-class banlieues (industrial suburbs) and their inhabitants with increasing frequency.(1) Often the gesture toward peripheral urban spaces and working class...

Books Received.
September 1, 2001... Andrew, Dudley, and Carole Cavanaugh. Sansho Dayu. London: British Film Institute, 2000. Barlow, Melinda, ed. Mary Lucier. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Carroll, Michael T., and Eddie Tafoya, eds....