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Explosive: Scenes from Israel's gay occupation
Abstract
This essay examines two works by the Israeli director Eytan Fox-Florentin, a television
serial, and The Bubble, a feature film-and the highly divergent ways they negotiate
the interplay between queerness, the Israeli state, and the Israeli military occupation.
Reading Fox's works symptomatically, the essay proposes that Florentin and The Bubble
can be understood as indexes of the changing Israeli political landscape of the last
decade-both the vacillating landscape of gay rights and visibility within the nation-state
and the changing landscape of Israeli occupation and Palestinian struggle that the
Oslo process of the 1990s made possible. In keeping with the tradition of symptomatic
reading, the analysis pays close attention to storylines and populations that Fox
has excluded from these works, arguing that Fox's representations of gay Israeli life
are intimately enmeshed with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even at moments when,
through cinematic silence, the conflict is implicitly disavowed. © 2010 by Duke University
Press.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/6686Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1215/10642684-2010-002Publication Info
Stein, RL (2010). Explosive: Scenes from Israel's gay occupation. GLQ, 16(4). pp. 517-536. 10.1215/10642684-2010-002. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/6686.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Rebecca L. Stein
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
My research studies linkages between cultural and political processes in Israel in
relation to its military occupation and the history of Palestinian dispossession.
I am the author of Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (Stanford
University Press, 2021) on the politics of military occupation in the age of the global
smartphone camera; <a href="http://www.sup.org/b

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