Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in

This provocative collection elaborates a trans-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle. Looking at the films of women directors in countries in the Mediterranean rim, this book spurs a contemporary discussion of women's human, civil, and social rights while situating feminist arguments on women's identity, roles, psychology and sexuality. Although their methodologies are diverse, these artists are united in their use of cinema as a means of intervention, taking on the role as outspoken and leading advocates for women's problems. Contributors examine the ways in which cinematic art reproduces and structures the discourses of realism and represents Mediterranean women's collective experience of struggle.

Flavia Laviosa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian Studies at Wellesley College and is on the international editorial board of Sine/Cine: The Journal of Cinema Research.

Preface--Laura Mulvey * Introduction--Flavia Laviosa * Veiling and Unveiling the Israeli Mediterranean: Yulie Cohen-Gerstel’s My Terrorist and My Land Zion--Yosefa Loshitzky * The Wiles of Maghrebi Women’s Cinema--Florence Martin * Visions and Voices of the Self in Take My Eyes--Mónica Cantero * Mutilating and Mutilated Bodies: Women’s Takes on “Extreme” French Cinema--Carrie Tarr * Anthropological Anxieties: Roberta Torre’s Critique of Mafia Violence--Áine O’Healy * Vertigo in the Balkans: Karin Jurschick’s The Peacekeepers and the Women--Marguerite Waller * Maria, Irene, and Olga "à la recherche du temps perdu…"--Maria Paradeisi * Hard to Bear: Women’s Burdens in the Cinema of Yesim Ustaoglu--S. Ruken Öztürk * Filming Defeat in the Arabic Idiom: Poetry, Cinema and the Saving Grace of Hala Al-Abdallah--Rasha Salti * "Death is the fairest cover for her shame": Framing Honor Killings--Flavia Laviosa

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Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

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