Alice Burgin recently attained an MA in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, focusing on representations of subaltern subjects in postcolonial cinema. Her main areas of interest lie in Western consumption and commodifcation of the non-Western Other through the filmic medium, especially in relation to Australian Aborigines and women. Currently, she is researching around the topic of Senegalese cinema, and aims to finish a PhD on the politics of cultural exchange of West African film transnationally.

Careless errors in an adults’ war

Whilst it does not trivialise the severity of the war, the film is effective in communicating the mundane nature of being a young Israeli in the army, a commentary on the impact of the everyday experience of war as lived by Israeli youth.

Cultural jam: On global womanism

What is missing is a thorough investigation into the racialised representations of women. The film’s heroine Ashley becomes exemplary of a global womanism, in which the white, heterosexual Australian woman is duty bound to save non-Western women from the sex-trade industry.