Since the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how A01s and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these...
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Since the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how A01s and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these borders. Intro -- List of Figures -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Excess, Illusion and the Border -- I Expanding Borders -- 2 Return to the Border: Commitment, Utopia and the Inescapable Green Line -- 3 Sayed Kashua, the Palestinian Hebrew Novel and the Failure of Coexistence -- II Deceptive Borders -- 4 Border Crossings and Stray Narratives of Return -- 5 Does the Camera Lie? Or, How to Document the Wall -- 6 The Illusion of the One-way Mirror: Filming the Checkpoint in Divine Intervention -- 7 Conclusion: Physical and Fictional Borders -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.