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基本説明
Explores the cinema as a productive site of national culture, dating back to the early Zionist films about turn-of-the-century Palestine.
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When the Hebrew edition of this groundbreaking book came out, it provoked a stormy public debate. The author has now up-dated "Israeli Cinema", adding a substantial new postscript that reflects on the book's initial reception and points to exciting new trends in the cinematic representation of Israel and Palestine. Ella Shohat explores the cinema as a productive site of national culture, dating back to the early Zionist films about turn-of-the-century Palestine. She offers a deconstructionist reading of Zionism, viewing the cinema as itself participating in the 'invention' of the nation. Unthinking the Eurocentric imaginary of 'East versus West', Shohat highlights the paradoxes of an anomalous national/colonial project through a number of salient issues, including the Sabra figure as a negation of the 'Diaspora Jew', the iconography of the land of Israel as a denial of Palestine, and the narrative role of 'the good Arab'. The new postscript examines the emergence of a richly multiperspectival cinematic space that transcends earlier dichotomies through a palimpsestic and cross-border approach to Israel/Palestine.
Contents
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Beginnings in the Yishuv: Promised Land and Civilizing
Mission
"Making the Desert Bloom:" The Production of Emptiness
Imaging Palestine: Pioneer Sabras and Exotic Arabs
The War of Languages
Chapter 2. Post-1948: The Heroic-Nationalist Genre
State of Siege and Didactic Allegories
The Orient and the Promethean Narrative
Spectacle of War in the Wake of 1967
Chapter 3. The Representation of Sephardim/Mizrahim
Orientalism and its Discontents
The Bourekas and the Carnivalesque
Narrating Nation and Modernization
Rescue Fantasies and the Libidinal South
Arab-Jews, Dislocation and Nostalgia
The Imaginary of Inside/Outside
Chapter 4. Personal Cinema and the Politics of Allegory
The Context of Production
Reflexivity, Parody and the Zionist Epic
Personal Cinema and the Diverse New Waves
The Seeds of Disillusionment
The Foregrounding of Marginality
The Hidden Face of Militarism
The Signification of Style
Marginality Revisited
Chapter 5. The Return of the Repressed: The Palestinian Wave in Recent Israeli Cinema
The Focalization of Politics
The Politics of Focalization
Postscript
Writing Between "the National" and "the Colonial"
The Politics of Representation Revisited
Addressing the Intertext
Palestinians-in-Israel: Cinematic Citizenship in the Liminal Zone
Independence, Nakba and the Visual Archive
Iconographies of Spatial Anxiety
The Arab-Jew and the Inscription of Memory
The Mizrahi Cinema of Displacement
Revisionist Cultural Practices
Translation, Reception and Traveling Postcolonialism
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index