Reel Gender

<i>Reel Gender</i> is a groundbreaking collection that addresses the collective realities and the filmic representations of Palestinian and Israeli societies. The eight essays by leading scholars demonstrate how Palestinian and Israeli film production-despite obvious overlaps and similarities and while keeping in mind the inherent asymmetry of power dynamics-are at the forefront of engaging gender and sexuality. The scholars of this volume construct and deconstruct still and moving images characters and stories that create an entanglement of Palestinian and Israeli cinema. Together they portray the region's diverse but unexpectedly intermingled ethnic religious and national communities framed or countered by various societal norms laws and expectations while also defined by colonial realities. The essays draw methodologically from the fields of media and cultural studies critical and postcolonial theory feminism post-feminism and queer theory.