Vanishing Points
The Gay Palestinian in Israeli cinema: Desire, Power and the Colonial Gaze
Published 2022-01-30
Keywords
- Israeli Cinema,
- Homonationalism,
- Pinkwashing,
- Palestine,
- Queer
- Gay Cinema. ...More
Abstract
This paper analyses the (re)production of Palestinian gay identities in Israeli cinema from a queer and decolonial point of view. It focuses specifically on Israeli mainstream films that are exported to international LGBTQ film festivals. The main objective is the analysis of filmic mechanisms that represent Palestinian sexuality as an Other. This research is scientifically, politically and ethically relevant in view of the recent increase in racism and Islamophobia, which exploit queer experiences and discourses, and given the scarcity in the academic literature of studies exploring the filmic mechanisms holding, operationalising, naturalising, and resisting the colonial construction of Palestinian non-normative sexuality.
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