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

Yaron Shemer 2013 © University of Michigan Press
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  • 9780472118847 (hardcover)
  • 9780472029259 (ebook)
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
    • Mizrahi Cinema: Definition and Parameters
    • Notes on Methodology and Theoretical Frameworks
    • The Structure of the Study
  • One: Mizrahi Ethnicity and Israeli Cinema
    • The Mizrahi Dilemma: A Critical Overview
    • The Mizrahi on the Israeli Screen: Historical Context
    • Critiquing Mizrahi Representation in Israeli Films
  • Two: The Cinematic Construction of Mizrahi Identity
    • Culture and Identity: Beyond the Essentialist/Constructionist Dyad
    • The Reconstruction of the Past
      • The Dual Valence of Arab-Jewish Identity
      • Salvage Cinema
      • The Utility of Rootedness
      • The Ethnic as a Symptom
      • The Cultural Past and the Political Present
      • Mediated Constructions of Mizrahi Identity: Ambivalence and Performance
    • Conclusion
  • Three: The Mizrahi Space
    • Brushing with the Postmodern
    • The Collapse of Postmodern Playfulness: The Redrawing of Ethnic Boundaries
    • Cinematic Topos: The Inscription of Marginality
    • Marginality as a Normative Space
    • The Mizrahi Niche
      • Film Funds
      • Television
  • Four: The Absence of Power and the Power of Absence: Victimhood, Struggle, and Agency
    • The Dialectics of Power: Casting Subaltern Agency
    • Protest in Mizrahi Cinema
      • Modalities of Mizrahi Protest in Cinema
      • Attenuated Protest
      • Corrective Histories
      • The Coupling of Victimhood and Agency in Mizrahi Protest Cinema
      • Protest Films
    • Sderot Cinematheque
    • The Remaking of Identities
  • Five: Intersectionality and Alliances
    • The Mizrahi Woman
    • The Ethnoclass Dilemma
    • The Ethnoreligious Juncture
    • Alliances and Inspirations
  • Afterword: What Is Mizrahi in Mizrahi Cinema?
  • Appendix 1. Israeli Films Cited
  • Appendix 2. Interviews
  • Works Cited
  • Index
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