[ecrea] New Book: Visions of Struggle

> 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
> 256 pp. / 0-230-61736-0 / $85.00 cl.
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