Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (Comparative Feminist Studies)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Series Editor\'s Foreword......Page 12
Foreword......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 20
Notes on Contributors......Page 22
Introduction......Page 26
Israel: Orientalism and Europeanness......Page 34
One: Veiling and Unveiling the Israeli Mediterranean: Yulie Cohen-Gerstel\'s My Terrorist and My Land Zion......Page 36
Maghreb: Political and Transcultural Resistance......Page 54
Two: The Wiles of Maghrebi Women\'s Cinema......Page 56
Spain: Domestic Violence......Page 76
Three: Visions and Voices of the Self in Take My Eyes......Page 78
France: Body Mutilation......Page 94
Four: Mutilating and Mutilated Bodies: Women\'s Takes on \"Extreme\" French Cinema......Page 96
Italy: Women of the Mafia......Page 114
Five: Anthropological Anxieties: Roberta Torre\'s Critique of Mafia Violence......Page 116
The Balkans: Peacekeeping and Women\'s (In)security......Page 136
Six: Vertigo in the Balkans: Karin Jurschick\'s \"The Peacekeepers and the Women\"......Page 138
Greece: Women\'s New Roles and Identities......Page 160
Seven: Maria, Irene and Olga \"à la recherche du temps perdu…\"......Page 162
Turkey: Harsh Living Conditions......Page 180
Eight: Hard to Bear: Women\'s Burdens in the Cinema of Yeşim Ustao&#l287;u......Page 182
Syria: Female Identities and Political Resistance......Page 198
Nine: This Woman’s Work: Filming Defeat in the Arabic Idiom: Poetry, Cinema, and the Saving Grace of Hala Alabdallah......Page 200
Turkey, Jordan, Palestine: Honor Killings......Page 216
Ten: \"Death is the fairest cover for her shame\": Framing Honor Killings......Page 218
B......Page 246
D......Page 247
F......Page 248
H......Page 249
I......Page 250
L......Page 251
M......Page 252
P......Page 253
R......Page 254
S......Page 255
V......Page 256
Z......Page 257