| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 224 pages) : illustrations, digital |
| Series |
Comparative feminist studies series |
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Comparative feminist studies series.
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| Contents |
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 / Áine 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 "à la recherche du temps perdu ..." / Maria Paradeisi -- Turkey: harsh living conditions -- Hard to bear: women's burdens in the cinema of Yeşim Ustaoğlu / S. Ruken Öztürk -- 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Feminist films -- Mediterranean Region -- History and criticism
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Women in motion pictures.
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Women motion picture producers and directors -- Mediterranean Region -- Biography
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Feminist films
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Women in motion pictures
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Women motion picture producers and directors
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Frauenfilm
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Gewalt Motiv
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Mediterranean Region
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Mittelmeerraum
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Laviosa, Flavia.
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| ISBN |
9780230105201 |
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0230105203 |
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1349380385 |
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9781349380381 |
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