Reel Gender

Sa'ed Atshan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, USA. He is the author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (2020) and coauthor of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (2020). Katharina Galor is the Hirschfeld Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies at Brown University, USA. She is the coauthor of The Archeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins through the Ottomans (2013) and The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (2020) and the author of Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology (2017).

Introduction: Film and the Gender Lens
Katharina Galor (Brown University, USA) and Sa’ed Atshan (Emory University, USA)

Part I: Feminist Perspectives

1. The Religious Feminism of Rama Burshtein’s Romances
Karen E. H. Skinazi (University of Bristol, UK)
2. Silence…No More…: Palestinian Cinema of Transgression
Lema M. Salem (Independent Scholar, Germany)
3. Families on the Edge: Interstitial Relations in Recent Palestinian Women’s Cinema
Anna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Part II: Approaching Masculinities

4. Disappearances and Remains: Masculinity in the Cinema of Elia Suleiman
Kamran Rastegar (Tufts University, USA)
5. “Queer As Can Be”: On Masculinity in Jumana Manna’s Blessed, Blessed Oblivion
Gil Hochberg (Columbia University, USA)

Part III: Israeli-Palestinian Intersections

6. Our African Palestine: Intersectional Specters in the House of Zion
Greg Burris (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
7. Write Down, I Am a Woman
Shai Ginsburg (Duke University, USA)
8. Identity (Ex)Changes, Gender, and Family Ties: Cinematic Representations of Israeli Jews and Palestinians
Yael Zerubavel (Rutgers University, USA)

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