Part I: Setting the Stage: The Sex Scene and the Search for an Alternative Historiography

Part I: Setting the Stage: The Sex Scene and the Search for an Alternative Historiography 1 Qu’est-ce que la sexualité? 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