Visions of struggle in women's filmmaking in the Mediterranean
By: edited by Flavia Laviosa ; foreword by Laura Mulvey
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Comparative feminist studies series; Comparative feminist studies series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780230617360
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Veiling and unveiling the Israeli Mediterranean: Yulie Cohen-Gerstel's My terrorist and My land Zion / Yosefa Loshitzky; title: Maghreb: political and transcultural resistance; title: The wiles of Maghrebi women's cinema / Florence Martin; title: Spain: domestic violence; title: Visions and voices of the self in Take my eyes / Monica Cantero; title: France: body mutilation; title: Mutilating and mutilated bodies: women's takes on "extreme" French cinema / Carrie Tarr; title: Italy: women of the Mafia; title: Anthropological anxieties: Roberta Torre's critique of mafia violence / Áine O'Healy; title: The Balkans: peacekeeping and women's (in)security; title: Vertigo in the Balkans: Karin Jurschick's "the peacekeepers and the women" / Marguerite Waller; title: Greece: women's new roles and identities; title: Maria, Irene and Olga "à la recherche du temps perdu..." / Maria Paradeisi; title: Turkey: harsh living conditions; title: Hard to bear: women's burdens in the cinema of Yeşim Ustaoğlu / S. Ruken Öztürk; title: Syria: female identities and political resistance; title: This woman's work: filming defeat in the Arabic idiom: poetry, cinema, and the saving grace of Hala Alabdallah / Rasha Salti; title: Turkey, Jordan, Palestine: honor killings; title: "Death is the fairest cover for her shame": framing honor killings / Flavia Laviosa.