Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel /

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In this book, the author articulates the modalities through which Mizrahi (Eastern-Jewish or Arab-Jewish) films employ narratives, characters, and space to glean ethnic identities and, often, to redraw ethnic boundaries. This study's approach to Mizrahi ethnicity in Israel then stands in stark...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shemer, Yaron (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Cinema > Aspect social > Israël.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > Israel.
Motion pictures > Israel.
Israel.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Mizrahi Ethnicity and Israeli Cinema
  • The Cinematic Construction of Mizrahi Identity
  • The Mizrahi Space
  • The Absence of Power and the Power of Absence : Victimhood, Struggle and Agency
  • Intersectionality and Alliances
  • Afterword : What Is Mizrahi in Mizrahi Cinema?
  • Appendix 1 : Israeli Films Cited
  • Appendix 2 : Interviews.

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