Reel Gender

Palestinian and Israeli Cinema

Sa'ed Atshan, Katharina Galor (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-9425-6 (ISBN)

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Reel Gender is a groundbreaking collection that addresses the collective realities and the filmic representations of Palestinian and Israeli societies. The eight essays, by leading scholars, demonstrate how Palestinian and Israeli film production—despite obvious overlaps and similarities and while keeping in mind the inherent asymmetry of power dynamics—are at the forefront of engaging gender and sexuality. The scholars of this volume construct and deconstruct still and moving images, characters, and stories that create an entanglement of Palestinian and Israeli cinema. Together they portray the region’s diverse but unexpectedly intermingled ethnic, religious, and national communities, framed or countered by various societal norms, laws, and expectations, while also defined by colonial realities. The essays draw methodologically from the fields of media and cultural studies, critical and postcolonial theory, feminism, post-feminism, and queer theory.

Sa'ed Atshan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, USA. He is the author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (2020) and coauthor of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (2020). Katharina Galor is the Hirschfeld Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies at Brown University, USA. She is the coauthor of The Archeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins through the Ottomans (2013) and The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (2020) and the author of Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology (2017).

Introduction: Film and the Gender Lens
Katharina Galor (Brown University, USA) and Sa’ed Atshan (Emory University, USA)

Part I: Feminist Perspectives

1. The Religious Feminism of Rama Burshtein’s Romances
Karen E. H. Skinazi (University of Bristol, UK)
2. Silence…No More…: Palestinian Cinema of Transgression
Lema M. Salem (Independent Scholar, Germany)
3. Families on the Edge: Interstitial Relations in Recent Palestinian Women’s Cinema
Anna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Part II: Approaching Masculinities

4. Disappearances and Remains: Masculinity in the Cinema of Elia Suleiman
Kamran Rastegar (Tufts University, USA)
5. “Queer As Can Be”: On Masculinity in Jumana Manna’s Blessed, Blessed Oblivion
Gil Hochberg (Columbia University, USA)

Part III: Israeli-Palestinian Intersections

6. Our African Palestine: Intersectional Specters in the House of Zion
Greg Burris (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
7. Write Down, I Am a Woman
Shai Ginsburg (Duke University, USA)
8. Identity (Ex)Changes, Gender, and Family Ties: Cinematic Representations of Israeli Jews and Palestinians
Yael Zerubavel (Rutgers University, USA)

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Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2022
Zusatzinfo	40 color illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	1-5013-9425-8 / 1501394258
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-9425-6 / 9781501394256
Zustand	Neuware