Documentary Cinema in Israel-Palestine

Performance, the Body, the Home

Dr Shirly Bahar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2023
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4126-0 (ISBN)

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Alongside the upsurge in violence that came with the downfall of the Oslo era in the early 2000s, a new wave of documentaries emerged that centered on Palestinians’ and Mizrahim’s (Jews of Middle Eastern origins) historical and lived experiences of pain and oppression across Israel-Palestine and beyond. The documentaries challenge the systemic removal of self-represented Palestinian and Mizrahi pain from mainstream media and the public realm dominated by Israel. .

This book explores how Palestinians and Mizrahim perform their long endured pain on screen. Analysing key documentary films from the first decade of the 2000s, Shirly Bahar offers a nuanced reading of the cinematic documentary corpus emerging from Israel-Palestine, as well Palestinians’ and Mizrahim’s different and unequal yet interrelated forms of oppression and racialization under Israeli rule. While pain sets them apart, the documentary representations of pain of Palestinians and Mizrahim invite us to consider reconnection by focusing on the very relational nature of pain.

Shirly Bahar teaches in the School of Visual Arts at Columbia University in New York, USA, and is the co-director of the Tzedek Lab network. She received her PhD from New York University's Hebrew and Judaic Studies Department.

Introduction
Part I: The Body
1. Jenin: Living with Martyrdom in Mohammad Bakri’s Jenin Jenin
and Since You Left, and Juliano Mer-Hamis’ Arna’s Children

2. Heads Held High: Mizrahim’s Coming of Age and Activism
in David Belhassen and Asher Hamies’ The Ringworm Children,
David Benchetrit’s Kaddim Wind: A Moroccan Chronicle,
and Nissim Mosek’s Have You Heard of the Black Panthers?

Part II: Home
3. Speaking Out About the Places of Palestine in Israel
in Rachel Leah Jones’ 500 Dunam on the Moon,
Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan’s Route 181, and
Ibtisaam Maraana’s Paradise Lost

4. A Mother Tongue, A Daughter’s Voice: Mizrahi Women’s
Homecoming to the Arabic Language in Effi Banai’s Longing
and Israela Shaer-Meoded’s Queen Khantarisha

Concluding Notes: Looking Towards Mizrahi Solidarity
with the Palestinian Struggle

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	43 bw illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7556-4126-4 / 0755641264
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4126-0 / 9780755641260
Zustand	Neuware