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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 "Ã la recherche du temps perdu?"--
Maria Paradeisi * Hard to Bear: Womenâ??s
Burdens in the Cinema of Yesim Ustaoglu--S.
Ruken �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.
Comparative Feminist Studies
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