%0 Journal Article %J International Journal of Communication %D 2010 %T Interracial (Homo)Sexualities: Post-Traumatic Palestinian and Israeli Cinema during the al-Aqsa Intifada (Diary of a Male Whore and The Bubble) %A Raya Morag %X

An analysis of films depicting interracial sex between men during the al-Aqsa Intifada reveals a complex picture. Eytan Fox’s Israeli film, The Bubble, deals with the love between a young Israeli and a young Palestinian, ending tragically when the Palestinian becomes a suicide terrorist. In Abu Wael’s Diary of a Male Whore, a Palestinian street hustler recalls his violent childhood while he is servicing an Israeli client. Israeli and Palestinian homo(sexual) cinema (2000–2008) requires a rethinking not only of cultural concepts revolving around the possible encounters between the I and the other (prostitution, masturbation, gay-ization, romance) and psychoanalytic interventions (denial, [...]

%B International Journal of Communication %V 4 %P 932-954 %G eng %U https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325252999_Interracial_HomoSexualities_Post-Traumatic_Palestinian_and_Israeli_Cinema_during_the_al-Aqsa_Intifada_Diary_of_a_Male_Whore_and_The_Bubble