LEADER 04043nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910968844303321 005 20251117115615.0 010 $a0-8135-6640-1 010 $a9780813535379 010 $a0-8135-3537-9 035 $a(CKB)111090529149006 035 $a(OCoLC)70722073 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10075365 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000110911 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11137856 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110911 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10074349 035 $a(PQKB)10221811 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3032113 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3032113 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10075365 035 $a(OCoLC)54961544 035 $a(BIP)77575748 035 $a(BIP)8678001 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090529149006 100 $a20030422d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond flesh $equeer masculinities and nationalism in Israeli cinema /$fRaz Yosef 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8135-3375-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 173-189) and index. 320 $aFilmography: p. 191-192. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Zionist Body Master Narrative -- Chapter 2: Cannon Fodder: National Death, Homoeroticism, and Male Masochism in the Military Film -- Chapter 3: The Invention of Mizrahi Masculinity -- Chapter 4: Homoland: Interracial Sex and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict -- Chapter 5: The New Queers: Sexual Orientation in the Eighties and Nineties -- Notes -- Filmography -- Index -- About the Author. 330 $aZionism was not only a political and ideological program but also a sexual one. The liberation of Jews and creation of a new nation were closely intertwined with a longing for the redemption and normalization of the Jewish male body. That body had to be rescued from anti-Semitic, scientific-medical discourse associating it with disease, madness, degeneracy, sexual perversity, and femininityeven with homosexuality. The Zionist movement was intent on transforming the very nature of European Jewish masculinity as it had existed in the diaspora. Zionist/Israeli films expressed this desire through visual and narrative tropes, enforcing the image of the hypermasculine, colonialist-explorer and militaristic nation-builder, an image dependent on the homophobic repudiation of the "feminine" within men. The creation of a new heterosexual Jewish man was further intertwined with attitudes on the breeding of children, bodily hygiene, racial improvement, and Orientalist perspectiveswhich associated the East, and especially Eastern bodies, with unsanitary practices, plagues, disease, and sexual perversity. By stigmatizing Israels Eastern populations as agents of death and degeneration, Zionism created internal biologized enemies, against whom the Zionist society had to defend itself. In the name of securing the life and reproduction of the new Ashkenazi Jewry, Israeli society discriminated against both its internal enemies, the Palestinians, and its own citizens, the Mizrahim (Oriental Jews). Yosefs critique of the construction of masculinities and queerness in Israeli cinema and culture also serves as a model for the investigation of the role of male sexuality within national culture in general. 606 $aMotion pictures$zIsrael 606 $aMasculinity in motion pictures 606 $aHomosexuality in motion pictures 615 0$aMotion pictures 615 0$aMasculinity in motion pictures. 615 0$aHomosexuality in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43/653 700 $aYosef$b Raz$f1967-$0904111 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968844303321 996 $aBeyond flesh$94467613 997 $aUNINA