Palestine, Israel, and the politics of popular culture / Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg, editors.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-396) and index.

Popular culture and the question of power : toward a rethinking of Palestine and Israel / Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg -- Wasif jawhariyyeh, popular music, and early modernity in Jerusalem / Salim Tamari -- The Palestinian press in mandatory Jaffa : advertising, nationalism, and the public sphere / Mark LeVine -- Post-Zionism and its popular cultures / Ilan Pappé -- Cross-cast : passing in Israeli and Palestinian cinema / Carol Bardenstein -- Virtual nation : Palestinian cyberculture in Lebanese camps / Laleh Khalili -- Is there a Palestinian cinema? the national and transnational in Palestinian film production / Livia Alexander -- Liberating songs : Palestine put to music / Joseph Massad -- Dueling nativities : Zahava Ben sings Umm Kulthum / Amy Horowitz -- Against hybridity : the case of Enrico Macias, Gaston Ghrenassia / Ted Swedenburg -- "First contact" and other Israeli fictions : tourism, globalization, and the Middle East peace process / Rebecca L. Stein -- Prophecy, politics, and the popular : the Left behind series and Christian fundamentalism's new world order / Melani McAlister -- Telling stories in Palestine : comix understanding and narratives of Palestine-Israel / Mary Layoun -- Sentimentality and redemption : the rhetoric of Egyptian pop culture Intifada solidarity / Elliott Colla.