In this survey, contributors examine issues of women's rights violations in Mediterranean countries as represented in politically engaged films of the region. INDICE: Preface; L.Mulvey - Introduction; F.Laviosa - Veiling and Unveiling the Israeli Mediterranean: Yulie Cohen-Gerstel's My Terrorist and My Land Zion; Y.Loshitzky - The Wiles of Maghrebi Women's Cinema; F.Martin - Visions andVoices of the Self in Take My Eyes; M.Cantero - Mutilating and Mutilated Bodies: Women's Takes on 'Extreme' French Cinema; C.Tarr - Anthropological Anxieties: Roberta Torre's Critique of Mafia Violence; Á.O'Healy - Vertigo in the Balkans: Karin Jurschick's The Peacekeepers and the Women; M.Waller - Maria, Irene, and Olga 'à la recherche du temps perdu...'; M.Paradeisi - Hard to Bear: Women's Burdens in the Cinema of Yesim Ustaoglu; S.Ruken Öztürk - Filming Defeatin the Arabic Idiom: Poetry, Cinema and the Saving Grace of Hala Al-Abdallah;R.Salti - 'Death is the fairest cover for her shame': Framing Honor Killings;F.Laviosa
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61736-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 17/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés