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).

"Both the Palestinian and Israeli film categories-despite obvious overlaps and relatedness and while keeping in mind the inherent asymmetry of power dynamics-are at the forefront of engaging gender and sexuality"--

Introduction: Film and the Gender LensKatharina Galor (Brown University, USA) and Sa'ed Atshan (Emory University, USA)Part I: Feminist Perspectives1. The Religious Feminism of Rama Burshtein's RomancesKaren E. H. Skinazi (University of Bristol, UK)2. Silence.No More.: Palestinian Cinema of TransgressionLema M. Salem (Independent Scholar, Germany)3. Families on the Edge: Interstitial Relations in Recent Palestinian Women's CinemaAnna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK)Part II: Approaching Masculinities4. Disappearances and Remains: Masculinity in the Cinema of Elia SuleimanKamran Rastegar (Tufts University, USA)5. "Queer As Can Be": On Masculinity in Jumana Manna's Blessed, Blessed OblivionGil Hochberg (Columbia University, USA)Part III: Israeli-Palestinian Intersections6. Our African Palestine: Intersectional Specters in the House of ZionGreg Burris (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)7. Write Down, I Am a WomanShai Ginsburg (Duke University, USA)8. Identity (Ex)Changes, Gender, and Family Ties: Cinematic Representations of Israeli Jews and PalestiniansYael Zerubavel (Rutgers University, USA)FilmographyFiguresIndex