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[ecrea] New Book: Visions of Struggle

Sat Dec 05 13:05:12 GMT 2009



Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

Edited by Flavia Laviosa; Foreword by Laura Mulvey

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 womenâ??s human, civil, and social rights while situating feminist arguments on womenâ??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 womenâ??s problems. Contributors examine the ways in which cinematic art reproduces and structures the discourses of realism and represents Mediterranean womenâ??s collective experience of
struggle.

â??Visions of Struggle engages with long-standing feminist issues in new ways. Moving around the Mediterranean basin, together these essays form a multi-colored patchwork that encompasses documentary, feature-length fiction, and hybrid, experimental film. In their essays, the ten contributors explore the ways the regionâ??s female inhabitants experience, confront, and counter terrorism, abuse, forced marriage, sex trafficking, honor killings, and war. A critical assessment not only of female vulnerability in the twentyfirst century but also of resilience, creativity, and strength, Visions of Struggle provides a sorely needed and eminently strategic update to questions facing both women and film.â??? Chris Holmlund, Chair, Cinema Studdies Program and Professor, Cinema Studies,
Womenâ??s Studies, and French, University of Tennessee

CONTENTS: Preface--Laura Mulvey * Introduction--Flavia Laviosa * Veiling and Unveiling the Israeli Mediterranean: Yulie Cohen-Gerstelâ??s My Terrorist and My Land Zion--Yosefa Loshitzky * The Wiles of Maghrebi Womenâ??s Cinema--Florence Martin * Visions and Voices of the Self in Take My Eyes--Mónica Cantero * Mutilating and Mutilated Bodies: Womenâ??s Takes on â??Extremeâ?? French Cinema--Carrie Tarr * Anthropological Anxieties: Roberta Torreâ??s Critique of Mafia Violence--Ã?ine Oâ??Healy * Vertigo in the Balkans: Karin Jurschickâ??s The Peacekeepers and the Women--Marguerite Waller * Maria, Irene, and Olga "à la recherche du temps perdu?"-- Maria Paradeisi * Hard to Bear: Womenâ??s Burdens in the Cinema of Yesim Ustaoglu--S. Ruken Ã?ztürk * 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 Flavia Laviosa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian Studies at Wellesley College. Her articles, in English and Italian, have appeared in California Italian Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Studies in European Cinema, Italica, Rivista di Studi Italiani, Kinema, American Journal of Italian Studies, College Board-Special Focus, Rivista Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, and Italian Politics and Society. Her publications include essays in the edited collections Cinema and Culture in Twentieth Century Italy. (Ri)narrare il Meridione, Watching Pages, Reading Pictures, Italian Cinema-New Directions, Teaching Italian Culture, La Scuola Italiana di Middlebury, and Incontri con il Cinema Italiano. She is also on the international editorial board of Sine/Cine: The Journal of Cinema
Research.

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