Visions of struggle in women's filmmaking in the Mediterranean
New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2010
xxxii, 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Comparative feminist studies series
Includes bibliographical references and index
1st ed
Veiling and unveiling the Israeli Mediterranean: Yulie Cohen-Gerstel's My terrorist and My land Zion / Yosefa Loshitzky -- Maghreb: political and transcultural resistance -- The wiles of Maghrebi women's cinema / Florence Martin -- Spain: domestic violence -- Visions and voices of the self in Take my eyes / Monica Cantero -- France: body mutilation -- Mutilating and mutilated bodies: women's takes on "extreme" French cinema / Carrie Tarr -- Italy: women of the Mafia -- Anthropological anxieties: Roberta Torre's critique of mafia violence / Aine O'Healy -- The Balkans: peacekeeping and women's )in(security -- Vertigo in the Balkans: Karin Jurschick's "the peacekeepers and the women" / Marguerite Waller -- Greece: women's new roles and identities -- Maria, Irene and Olga "a la recherche du temps perdu..." / Maria Paradeisi -- Turkey: harsh living conditions -- Hard to bear: women's burdens in the cinema of Yesim Ustaoglu / S. Ruken Ozturk -- Syria: female identities and political resistance -- This woman's work: filming defeat in the Arabic idiom: poetry, cinema, and the saving grace of Hala Alabdallah / Rasha Salti -- Turkey, Jordan, Palestine: honor killings -- "Death is the fairest cover for her shame": framing honor killings / Flavia Laviosa
History and criticism ، Feminist films - Mediterranean Region
، Women in motion pictures
Biography ، Women motion picture producers and directors - Mediterranean Region
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edited by Flavia Laviosa ; foreword by Laura Mulvey