Visions of struggle in women's filmmaking in the Mediterranean

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Visions of struggle in women's filmmaking in the Mediterranean

edited by Flavia Laviosa ; foreword by Laura Mulvey

(Comparative feminist studies series)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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This provocative collection elaborates a trans-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle. Looking at the films of women directors in countries in the Mediterranean rim, this book spurs a contemporary discussion of women s human, civil, and social rights while situating feminist arguments on women s identity, roles, psychology and sexuality. Although their methodologies are diverse, these artists are united in their use of cinema as a means of intervention, taking on the role as outspoken and leading advocates for women s problems. Contributors examine the ways in which cinematic art reproduces and structures the discourses of realism and represents Mediterranean women s collective experience of struggle.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • L.Mulvey Introduction
  • F.Laviosa Veiling and Unveiling the Israeli Mediterranean: Yulie Cohen-Gerstel's My Terrorist and My Land Zion
  • Y.Loshitzky The Wiles of Maghrebi Women's Cinema
  • F.Martin Visions and Voices of the Self in Take My Eyes
  • M.Cantero Mutilating and Mutilated Bodies: Women's Takes on 'Extreme' French Cinema
  • C.Tarr Anthropological Anxieties: Roberta Torre's Critique of Mafia Violence
  • A.O'Healy Vertigo in the Balkans: Karin Jurschick's The Peacekeepers and the Women
  • M.Waller Maria, Irene, and Olga 'a la recherche du temps perdu...'
  • M.Paradeisi Hard to Bear: Women's Burdens in the Cinema of Yesim Ustaoglu
  • S.Ruken OEzturk Filming Defeat in the Arabic Idiom: Poetry, Cinema and the Saving Grace of Hala Al-Abdallah
  • R.Salti 'Death is the fairest cover for her shame': Framing Honor Killings
  • F.Laviosa

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