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Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel
Yaron Shemer
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Description for Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel
Hardcover. A comprehensive examination of Mizrahi film and its relationship to the formulation of Mizrahi ethnic identity in contemporary Israeli cinema Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
In Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel, Yaron Shemer articulates the modalities through which Mizrahi (Oriental-Jewish or Arab-Jewish) films employ narratives, characters, and space to glean ethnic identities and, often, to redraw ethnic boundaries. The book makes the argument that for decades after the establishment of the State, Israeli films mostly acquiesced with Zionism’s dominant discourse whereby the Mizrahi was deemed an inferior other whose “Levantine” culture was believed to pose a threat to the Western-oriented Zionist enterprise.
Shemer examines this continuous marginalisation of the Mizrahi in Israeli cinema and the challenges some Mizrahi ... Read more
In Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel, Yaron Shemer articulates the modalities through which Mizrahi (Oriental-Jewish or Arab-Jewish) films employ narratives, characters, and space to glean ethnic identities and, often, to redraw ethnic boundaries. The book makes the argument that for decades after the establishment of the State, Israeli films mostly acquiesced with Zionism’s dominant discourse whereby the Mizrahi was deemed an inferior other whose “Levantine” culture was believed to pose a threat to the Western-oriented Zionist enterprise.
Shemer examines this continuous marginalisation of the Mizrahi in Israeli cinema and the challenges some Mizrahi ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472118847
SKU
V9780472118847
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About Yaron Shemer
Yaron Shemer is Assistant Professor of Modern Hebrew and Israeli Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
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