Visions of struggle in women's filmmaking in the Mediterranean
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxxii, 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Comparative feminist studies series
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references and index
NOTES PERTAINING TO EDITION AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC HISTORY
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1st ed
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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History and criticism ، Feminist films - Mediterranean Region
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، Women in motion pictures
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Biography ، Women motion picture producers and directors - Mediterranean Region
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
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1995
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9
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W6
V57
2009
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
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TI
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edited by Flavia Laviosa ; foreword by Laura Mulvey