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| ISBN-13: | 9783110693621 |
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| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Publication date: | 02/22/2021 |
| Series: | Cinepoetics - English edition , #8 |
| Pages: | 298 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.00(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Prologue xiii
Part I Setting the Stage: The Sex Scene and the Search for an Alternative Historiography
1 Qu'est-ce que la sexuatité? 3
2 The Sex Scene 8
3 Reflection on a Reflection: Earlier Discussions of Israeli Sex Scenes 14
4 Thesis and Antithesis 24
5 The Hypothesis of Repression 37
6 Contrariwise: The Applications and Implications of Otherness and Alterity 44
6.1 The Jewish Position: Sander Gilman 44
6.2 The Position of Resistance: Judith Butler 50
7 The Film Viewed 59
7.1 No Room of Their Own: The Disruption of Space 61
7.2 Figure This 68
The Earnestness of Being Important: The Comic Figure 69
How the Mighty are Fallen: The Victim 80
"Whose Son is This Youth?"; The Child 87
7.3 Where is My John Wayne? Where is My Muscle Jew? 92
8 Concluding Words 95
Part II The 1960s: Comedy, Victimhood and Paradise Lost
9 The Introduction of Sex through the Prism of the Type Figure 99
10 "We Have a Little Sister and She Hath no Breasts": The Comic Figure and the Deterioration of Eroticism in Motive to Murder 101
10.1 Motive to Murder 101
Through the Entrance Hall: The Disrupted Space 102
The Podium: Comedy 103
The Boudoir: Eros Disarmed and the Question of Female Promiscuity 106
The Bedchamber: Sex Scenes 107
On the Veranda: The Meaning of a Damaged Private Sphere 114
11 "We Are Both Crippled": Victimhood, Status, and Sex in Dramas and Melodramas 116
11.1 The Dybbuk and Fortuna - Me Against Us: Victims of the Community 116
11.2 Is Tel Aviv Burning? and EVERY BASTARD A KING - Us Against It: The Victim in the Community 119
11.3 Eldorado 121
No Place for Me: Space and Intrusion 121
It's All About Me: Male Spectacle 122
Poor Me: Victimhood Stardom 125
Gain and Loss: The Sex Scenes 126
11.4 He Walked Through the Fields - Me Too: Following Sherman's Footsteps 131
11.5 The Hero's Wife 134
I am in Pieces: The Fragmented Individual 134
Me, Not Us: Eroticism Rebels 138
It's not You, It's Us: Yosef and The Unattractiveness of Community 139
The Third Rival: Casualties of War 141
War Time: The Synchronisation of the Communal Body 142
Finally in the Frame: Sexual Climax 143
Back to Life: The Return to Democratic Space 144
11.6 Shining Through: Conclusion and Commentary 146
12 Where is the Child? Where is the Adult? The Child Enters the Sex Scene in A Night in Tiberias, Not Mine to Love, and Iris 148
12.1 A Night In Tiberias - Paradise Lost: The Clash between Childhood and Adulthood 149
12.2 Not Mine to Love 152
Jerusalem Personified: Internal and External Cityscapes 152
Thorny Routine: Eli's Perforated World 153
The Memory of the Mother, the Presence of the Son: Absence of Sovereignty 155
Mischief, Guilt, and Menace: Unsovereign Affairs 157
Once Upon a Time: The Recollection of Youth 159
Dysfunctionality: The Non-Sovereign Murderer and Unredeemed Rescuer 162
See Me, Feet Me: Male Anti-Spectacle 163
12.3 IRIS 165
Past Present: Untimeliness 165
The Winter of Our Content: The Abhorrence of the Present and the Celebration of the Past 167
"I Once Looked After Him…A Little": Yoel's Misogyny, Lack of Mastery, and Sexual Surrender 169
Icon and Spectre: The Spectacle of Girlhood 170
Violence and Confusion: The Turbulent End 174
12.4 Children in Danger, Men in Crisis: Conclusion and Commentary 178
Part III The 1970s: War, Protest and Youth
13 Same Same, But Different: The Politics of Sex and Identity 183
14 Past/Present/Future: The Yom Kippur War in Melodramas 188
14.1 Three and One and Judgement Day 189
Cry, the Beloved Country: The Political Deployment of Melodrama 189
Common Ground: Family Crisis, Intergenerational Difference, and Men Behaving Badly 192
Differences: Circular vs. Linear Progression, Exterior vs. Interior Space, Desperation vs. Healing 195
Tenderness vs. Violence: Sexual Economies and the Dissipation of the Victim's Sensuality 200
15 "They're Not Nice Guys": Oriental Jewish Identity Enters the Political Arena in the 1970s 207
15.1 From History to Theory: Oriental Jewish Identity in Israeli Film Theory 208
15.2 Little Man and Highway queen 211
"He Who Fucks Alone, Dies Alone": Liberation from Comedy 211
"It's Written All Over Your Face": Elevation and Degradation 217
Social Oppression and the Struggle for Sovereignty 228
16 We Are Young, We're Not Free: The Face of a New Generation in Youth Films 229
16.1 Lemon Popsicle 2: Going Steady 233
"C'mon Everybody": The Perpetual Impertinence of the Gang 233
"I'm Singin' in the Rain": The Brazen Act of Self-Assertion and the Fragility of Togetherness 238
"Let's Twist Again": The Teenage Clique as a Receptive Network-241
16.2 Dizengoff 99 243
"Tell Me You Love Me…Just for Fun": The Crystallisation of the Group and the Phantom of the Romantic Couple 243
"Did You Get Many Responses to Your Ad in the Paper?": The Swinging Scene 247
"The Most Natural Thing in the World": The Threesome 249
"Don't You See You're Ruining Your Life?": Cinematic Self-Reflection 253
16.3 Tel Aviv, Sex, 1979: Conclusion and Commentary 255
Epilogue 257
Bibliography 259
Filmography 269
Name Index 273
Film Index 277
Subject Index 279