...Omar Kholeif 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 trip. I stutter when I try...

... “exotic.” The production insisted on her embodiment of the Hollywood beauty ideal during World War II and defined feminine beauty in terms that would not offend soldiers overseas. Fox went as far as to excise a montage sequence in which the influential columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) helps make...

... the traumatic perspective away from Palestinians and onto Israeli soldiers, this new wave reopens a debate about perpetration, one that for the rst time includes women who are former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers. One of the keys to this new trend is provided by the obvious failure...

... Sander in the course of making the film BeFreier und Befreite (Germany 1992; the title was translated into English as Liberators Take Liberties).2 Sander’s documentary examines the mass rapes of German women by Soviet soldiers as they marched toward...

... of the Unknown Soldier from Vietnam in Arlington National Cemetery in 1984. Furthermore, we witnessed the reworking, popu- larization, and recycling of the story of the Vietnam War. Most notably, the Gulf War was presented, by Bush and by national and local tel- evision commentators, as an opportunity...

...- going interrogation at a US-run military prison. His body was clear evidence of the practice of American torture. Yet displayed he had been, first “privately,” on the computers of the soldiers who had taken the pictures at Abu Ghraib in 2003, then nationally and internationally...

...? lODY: I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about your people. Here, Jody establishes his belief that it is Fergus's status as an IRA soldier that defines him, and that "species identity" that determines his actions in a larger sense. In many respects, the film bears...

... are a diverse mixture, the Odessa steps sequence focusses more intensively, particularly ‘ through the selectivity of the close-up, on those bodies which are particularly vulnerable to the aggression of the soldiers. All of the 32 women victims-and most of the close-ups are indeed of women...

..., at the entrances to diners and supermarkets, in wreath-like door ornaments, and on the lapels and in the hair-of women. The ribbons signified, first of all, a concern for the individual soldiers who were in the Persian Gulf. This traces to their popularization in Tony Orlando and Dawn’s 1973 song “Tie...

... notably in the concession that the Israeli governor and his soldiers should be present as wedding guests and as guards. Wedding in Galilee appears to offer the carnivalesque as a mode of resistance. The film’s conclusion posits the most transgressive ele- ment of the wedding as its eruption from...

..., origins in order to earn good standing in the Komisol, the Stalinist youth organization. Separated from his comrades, he is next captured by German soldiers, whom he deceives by speaking educated Ger- man—linguistic “proof” of his “pure” Germanness. After he is adopted by a German captain and sent...

...) into a "voter registration center." She drapes it with flags, serves beer and pornog- raphy ("that's our voter training film hums the national anthem. When a furious Sam Beckett (black soldier in charge of the unit) cleans her out of the GRU, he stops short of discarding the flag, instead...

... it unprecedentedly labyrinthine and despaired of intelligible sum- mary. But synopsis is not difficult: a company of US soldiers cap- tured in the Korean War is brainwashed by communists and made to believe they were saved by Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey). Trained to be an unknowing assassin, Raymond receives...

... the Palestinian people under military occupation and deteriorating conditions. The films hide this choice by showing how the Israeli soldier is sup- posedly forced by circumstance to act in an evil way, when, inside, he is really good, another version of the cliché of Israeli soldiers who shoot...

... of “Brother” implores his audience to remember his name and, moreover, to make good on promises made in the past to work- ers and soldiers: “They used to tell me I was building a dream / With peace and glory ahead / Why should I be standing in line / Just waiting for bread?” “Brother, Can You Spare...

... the colonial archive. On closer inspection, Fuentes has provided us with clues to his Brechtian strategy along the way. Some of the found footage that he uses was made by the Edison Biograph Company, includ- ing one of trench shots of “Filipinos” retreating from advancing US soldiers. The Filipinos...

... and takes on a necropolitical irony in the context of knowing what soldiers were doing in Afghanistan. In 2010, for example, we came to learn that twelve US soldiers faced charges over a secret kill team that shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies. The concocters...

...Yvonne Tasker; Diane Negra Camera Obscura 2006 Yvonne Tasker is a professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of various books including Working Girls: Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture (1998) and the forthcoming Soldiers...

... new movie, Far from War, is also a psychological film, but it's about an old retired soldier. How did you decide to make that film? HM: After my first film, the problem was to make another. The first thing I had to do was get the leaders in the studio to agree, so I thought about finding subject...

..., army nurse Colleen McMurphy (Dana Delany) learns that she has been named the beneficiary of two life insurance policies, policies belonging to men she has treated, but cannot remember.* Since the letters to the soldiers’ insurance companies have been written in McMurphy’s hand, and since one...