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Documentary Cinema in Israel-Palestine
Performance, the Body, the Home
Documentary Cinema in Israel-Palestine
Performance, the Body, the Home
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Alongside the upsurge in violence that came with the downfall of the Oslo era in the early 2000s, a new wave of documentaries emerged that centered on Palestinians' and Mizrahim's (Jews of Middle Eastern origins) historical and lived experiences of pain and oppression across Israel-Palestine and beyond. The documentaries challenge the systemic removal of self-represented Palestinian and Mizrahi pain from mainstream media and the public realm dominated by Israel. .
This book explores how Palestinians and Mizrahim perform their long endured pain on screen. Analysing key documentary films from the first decade of the 2000s, Shirly Bahar offers a nuanced reading of the cinematic documentary corpus emerging from Israel-Palestine, as well Palestinians' and Mizrahim's different and unequal yet interrelated forms of oppression and racialization under Israeli rule. While pain sets them apart, the documentary representations of pain of Palestinians and Mizrahim invite us to consider reconnection by focusing on the very relational nature of pain.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Body
1. Jenin: Living with Martyrdom in Mohammad Bakri's Jenin Jenin
and Since You Left, and Juliano Mer-Hamis' Arna's Children
2. Heads Held High: Mizrahim's Coming of Age and Activism
in David Belhassen and Asher Hamies' The Ringworm Children,
David Benchetrit's Kaddim Wind: A Moroccan Chronicle,
and Nissim Mosek's Have You Heard of the Black Panthers?
Part II: Home
3. Speaking Out About the Places of Palestine in Israel
in Rachel Leah Jones' 500 Dunam on the Moon,
Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan's Route 181, and
Ibtisaam Maraana's Paradise Lost
4. A Mother Tongue, A Daughter's Voice: Mizrahi Women's
Homecoming to the Arabic Language in Effi Banai's Longing
and Israela Shaer-Meoded's Queen Khantarisha
Concluding Notes: Looking Towards Mizrahi Solidarity
with the Palestinian Struggle
Bibliography
Product details
Published | 26 Jan 2023 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 248 |
ISBN | 9780755641260 |
Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
Illustrations | 43 bw illus. |
Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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