Visions of Struggle in Women’s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
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Veiling and Unveiling the Israeli Mediterranean: Yulie Cohen-Gerstel’s My Terrorist and My Land Zion....Pages 3-19
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The Wiles of Maghrebi Women’s Cinema....Pages 23-41
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Visions and Voices of the Self in Take My Eyes....Pages 45-60
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Mutilating and Mutilated Bodies: Women’s Takes on “Extreme” French Cinema....Pages 63-80
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Anthropological Anxieties: Roberta Torre’s Critique of Mafia Violence....Pages 83-101
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Vertigo in the Balkans: Karin Jurschick’s “The Peacekeepers and the Women”....Pages 105-126
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Maria, Irene and Olga “`la recherche du temps perdu …”....Pages 129-145
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Hard to Bear: Women’s Burdens in the Cinema of Yeşim Ustaoğlu....Pages 149-164
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This Woman’s Work: Filming Defeat in the Arabic Idiom: Poetry, Cinema, and the Saving Grace of Hala Alabdallah....Pages 167-182
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“Death is the fairest cover for her shame” Framing Honor Killings....Pages 185-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-224