Identity, place, and subversion in contemporary Mizrahi cinema in Israel /

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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Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Shemer, Yaron (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press [2013]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.5176711
Taula de continguts:
  • 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.