Femininity and the Challenge of Representation: Some Thoughts about Minor Israeli and Palestinian Films

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Israel Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.2979/israelstudies.28.1.14

Nava Dushi

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Abstract

ABSTRACT:In a joint interview, shortly after the release of In Between (2016), writer-director Maysaloun Hamoud and lead actress Mouna Hawa proclaimed that the primary aim of the film was to render visible the otherwise invisible lives of young Palestinian women living in Tel-Aviv-Jaffa—an unclassifiable group that forms a minority within a minority within a minority. By what means can a minority relegated to an invisible existence be represented and what is the ethical import of films which grapple with the absence of a feminine space and the impossibility of its representation? These challenges take center stage in several works of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian women filmmakers. While the historical (and present) circumstances and contexts underlying the production of their work differ, the directorial sensibilities which populate the aesthetic fabric of such films point to the emergence of collective assemblages of enunciation that transgress essentialist categorizations.

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女性与表现的挑战——对以色列和巴勒斯坦小电影的几点思考

摘要：在《In Between》（2016）上映后不久的一次联合采访中，编剧兼导演Maysaloun Hamoud和女主角Mouna Hawa宣布，这部电影的主要目的是让生活在特拉维夫Jaffa的巴勒斯坦年轻女性的生活变得可见，否则就看不见了。Jaffa是一个不可分类的群体，在少数人中形成了少数人中的少数人。被降级为隐形存在的少数群体可以通过什么方式被表现出来？在女性空间的缺失和不可能被表现出来的情况下，电影的道德意义是什么？这些挑战在当代以色列和巴勒斯坦女性电影制作人的几部作品中占据了中心位置。虽然他们作品制作的历史（和现在）环境和背景各不相同，但这类电影美学结构中的导演情感表明，出现了违反本质主义分类的集体表达组合。

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期刊介绍： Israel Studies presents multidisciplinary scholarship on Israeli history, politics, society, and culture. Each issue includes essays and reports on matters of broad interest reflecting diverse points of view. Temporal boundaries extend to the pre-state period, although emphasis is on the State of Israel. Due recognition is also given to events and phenomena in diaspora communities as they affect the Israeli state. It is sponsored by the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, in affiliation with the Association for Israel Studies.