Visions of struggle in women's filmmaking in the Mediterranean /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Laviosa, Flavia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Comparative feminist studies series.
Temas:
Feminist films > Mediterranean Region > History and criticism.
Women in motion pictures.
Women motion picture producers and directors > Mediterranean Region > Biography.
Femmes au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Feminist films
Women in motion pictures
Women motion picture producers and directors
Frauenfilm
Gewalt > Motiv
Mediterranean Region
Mittelmeerraum
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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