Write a 3 pages essay about ONE of the following Movies(Film: Occupation 101 , Film: To Die in Jerusalem (Israel, 2007) Director: Hila Medalia , Film: Through the Veil of Exile Director: David Ben Chetrit (Israel, 1992) ,).You MUST cite at least four sources in addition to the film. The list of the sources you can relate is here:(1. Madmoni-Gerber, Shoshana. Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair. Palgrave Macmillan (2009/2014) ;2. Chetrit Shalom, Sami. Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010); chapters 1-3; 3. Hall, Stuart (1996). Cultural Identity and Diaspora.

http://www.rlwclarke.net/Theory/SourcesPrimary/Hal… ;4. Shohat, Ella. Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography. In Carolyn Karcher (Ed.), Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation (pp. 37-43). Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. ;5, Shohat, Ella. “Sepharadim in Israel: Zionism from the Stand Point of its Jewish Victims.” Social Text: Theory, Culture and Ideology 19/20, 1988. ;6, Shohat, Ella. Israeli Cinema East/West and the Politics of Representation. University of Texas Press, Austin (1989). Chapter three: “The Bourekas and Sepharadi Representation.” ;7, Shliam, Avi. “The Debate About 1948.” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3 (August 1995), pp. 287-304. )

Feel free to conduct your own research and use other articles about the conflict or about representation and media criticism. Make clear and concise claims, use the articles and examples from the film to back up your argument.

In your essay, you should address the following points:

1.How do the style and modes of representation used by the director influence the film? Consider the director’s involvement, narration, choice of characters, sound track, camera shots, and editing.

2.What political point of view does the director ask viewers to consider? Does it differ from some of the widely accepted notions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Focus on analyzing the film’s text and the political argument made by the director via his/her subjects.

3.Articulate the film’s main question or argument using theoretical concepts such as discourse, identity, narrative, and memory; demonstrate how the film’s text offers an alternative view using at least THREE specific examples from the film.

4.Why did you choose to write this film?