Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen

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Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen Yosefa Loshitzky university of texas press, austin Copyright © 2001 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2001 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, University of Texas Press, Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819. ⬁ 䊊 The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Loshitzky, Yosefa. Identity politics on the Israeli screen / Yosefa Loshitzky.—1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-292-74723-3 (alk. paper)— isbn 0-292-74724-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Motion pictures—Israel—History. 2. Jews in motion pictures. 3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939– 1945), in motion pictures. 4. Jewish-Arab relations in motion pictures. 5. Arabs in motion pictures. I. Title. pn1993.5.i86 l37 2002 791.43⬘095694—dc21 2001017137 To the memory of the thirteen Palestinians, citizens of the State of Israel, who were killed by the Israeli police in October 2000 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...