...Omar Kholeif © 2012 by Camera Obscura 2012 In Practice: The Queer State of Palestinian Media Me and a Rifle (and an IDF Soldier on My Back) Omar Kholeif It is 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Or is it Friday night? I am in a state of deep insomnia, as I have been for this whole...

... it is a conjoinment of one to the many in perpetuity ("you live forever Thus, while the 98 Marine Corps is constituted as a brotherhood, each Marine is himself, as Hartman pronounces on the night he has his men bed down with their rifles, "married to this piece, this weapon of iron and wood...

... is small-“a deer park,” as Rainsford puts it-, dangerous for those unfamiliar with it; the marsh, apparently the safest hiding-place, is where all the preceding victims have been captured; his weapons- bow-and-arrow, rifle-are more effective than a simple hfe;his aux- iliaries-the servants...

... Discipline and Pleasure: Shirley Temple and the Spectacle of Child Loving. No 79: pp. 127 – 155 Colleen Jankovic with Nadia Awad Queer/Palestinian Cinema: A Critical Conversation on Palestinian Queer and Women’s Filmmaking. No. 80: pp. 135 – 143 Omar Kholeif Me and a Rifle (and an IDF...

... history that has shaped history itself. The first of these flashbacks begins with Frohike’s voice-over; as Cancer Man listens intently through his ear piece while setting up a high-powered rifle, we learn that his father was an “ardent Soviet activist” executed for spying, and his mother...

... the entire screen, evoking a sense of closeness and intimacy. But the affective tone of the scene shifts rather startlingly when Emma picks up a rifle. She shows Cassandra how to load the weapon and then (playfully?) aims the rifle at both her sister (who appears in the frame) and Cassandra. Nothing...

... the sequence of career-highlight film clips was “overwhelming.”2 There was no doubting Streep’s range and ability while watching her fear- fully rifling through the Kerr-McGee files inSilkwood (dir. Mike Nich- ols, US, 1983); her bossiness as a mother and the prodigal daughter Lee Lacker in Marvin’s...

.... In fact, domesticity and maternity may be appropriated as militant characteristics. The motif of the woman in traditional embroidered Palestinian dress, holding a child in one arm and a rifle in the other, is common on posters and paintings and represents a com- plex matrix of national and gendered...

... spokes of a carnival ride turning in the background — marks Nan’s Medusan transformation. Dressed in a white overcoat offset by black gloves, Nan raises a rifle when she hears a cashier calling out Bailey’s name, then cocks and fires the rifle three times in rapid succession. Bailey sidles over...

... haunted James ever since and driven his hopeless search through the apartments, streets, and buildings of the deserted lakeside town of Silent Hill. James raises his rifle or, if no ammunition remains, his foot, and — for the second time in his life — he puts the pathetic creature out of her...

... on the discovery of “visual . literacy ” 76 Perhaps because Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino (the authors of the pathbreaking, “Towards a Third Cinema”) compared the cam- era with a rifle, much of the current discussion of national or “Third” cinemas seems reconciled...

... is wounded? Rainsford, twice, barely escapes the deadly arrow; Ivan in the marsh; Zaroff. Who wounds? In this order: Zaroff; Rainsford; Rainsford. The rifle, the pistol and the dogs, displacements of the original arrow, reawaken the preceding ambivalences: Martin and the sailors, sup...

..., it is unsurprising that the protests have continuously touted the claim to freedom through an imaginative display of low-level Rambo outfits and assault rifles while applauding the closing of the Unites States borders. Designated as “American Patriot” rallies, the protests reworked anxieties of a nation under siege...

... filming . . . the Freaks were still crying, and when approached screamed even louder. They were protective of their boxes but we managed to get one loose with a firm strike to the head of a Freak with the butt of a rifle. The only image we receive of the “Freaks” is a naked immobile...

... this definition when it refuses to issue Solly’s brother a rifle to fight in Poland’s defense on the grounds that he is Jew- ish.18 When it becomes evident that Poland will fall to Germany, Solly flees eastward, where he is accepted into a Soviet orphan- age. Here he must overcome his class, that is, bourgeois...

... the drugged lemonade has taken effect, for example, Hughie discov- ers Rae’s betrayal (he sees her with the rifle) and attacks her so brutally that she is finally forced to use a weapon against him. Locking herself in a room again, and finally wounding her attacker through the door with a spear gun, Rae...

... with Muslim men and boys, yet a signifier of othered masculinities24), holding a large gun against his small body, and looking straight into the camera.25 His small frame is overpowered by the rifle he holds. But his eyes brazenly confront the camera s gaze, thus the viewer s gaze. The text reads, Why...

... discomfort with such implicit masculine competition: “I’m uncomfortable with most men, especially ‘men’s men’ who know all about gears, rifles, and how to splice rope. They always make me feel like the new kid on the block, tolerated but not accepted, and they always act as though...

.... Remember my forgotten man?” Then, her vocal dragging behind the beat, she affectlessly recites the lyric: Remember my forgotten man You put a rifle in his hand You sent him far away You shouted hip hooray But look at him today Remember my forgotten man You had him cultivate the land...

... blasters, and rifles. And while he may expand and contract in space, in will, and in personality via the insubstantial element of colored light, even the blips and blinks of red and blue (and the occasional green) coexist with a physical object symbolic of the body. In recent years, however...