Israeli cinema : identities in motion / edited by Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Talmon, Miri.

Peleg, Yaron.

Series:

Jewish history, life, and culture

Jewish history, life and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Israel.

Motion pictures.

Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures.

Israel.

Physical Description:

xvii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.

Summary:

With top billing at many film forums around the world, as well as a string of prestigious prizes, including consecutive nominations for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Israeli films have become one of the most visible and promising cinemas in the first decade of the twenty-first century, an intriguing and vibrant site for the representation of Israeli realities. Yet two decades have passed since the last wide-ranging scholarly overview of Israeli cinema, creating a need for a new, state-of-the-art analysis of this exciting cinematic oeuvre.

The first anthology of its kind in English, Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion presents a collection of specially commissioned articles in which leading Israeli film scholars examine Israeli cinema as a prism that refracts collective Israeli identities through the medium and art of motion pictures. The contributors address several broad themes: the nation imagined on film; war, conflict, and trauma; gender, sexuality, and ethnicity; religion and Judaism; discourses of place in the age of globalism; filming the Palestinian Other; and new cinematic discourses. The authors' illuminating readings of Israeli films reveal that Israeli cinema offers rare visual and narrative insights into the complex national, social, and multicultural Israeli universe, transcending the partial and superficial images of this culture in world media. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The nation imagined on film. Filming the homeland: cinema in Eretz Israel and the Zionist movement, 1917-1939 / Ariel L. Feldestein

Helmar Lerski in Israel / Jan-Christopher Horak

Ecce Homo: The Transfiguration of Israeli Manhood in Israeli Films / Yaron Peleg

War and Its Aftermath. From Hill to Hill: A Brief History of the Representation of War in Israeli Cinema / Uri S. Cohen

From Hero to Victim: The Changing Image of the Soldier on the Israeli Screen / Eran Kaplan

The Lady and the Death Mask / Judd Neeman

Coping with the Legacy of Death: The War Widow in Israeli Films / Yael Zerubavel

The Privatization of War Memory in Recent Israeli Cinema / Yael Munk

An Ethno-Cultural Kaleidoscope. Disjointed Narratives in Contemporary Israeli Films / Nitzan Ben Shaul

Trajectories of Mizrahi Cinema / Yaron Shemer

Immigrant Cinema: Russian Israelis on Screens and behind the Cameras / Olga Gershenson

Holocaust and Trauma. The Holocaust in Israeli Cinema as a Conflict between Survival and Morality / Ilan Avisar

Near and Far: The Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Feature Films, 1945-2010 / Liat Steir-Livny

Homonational Desires: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Cinema of Eytan Fox / Raz Yosef

Jewish Orthodoxy Revisited. Negotiating Judaism in Contemporary Israeli Cinema: The Spiritual Style of My Father, My Lord / Dan Chyutin

Seeking the Local, Engaging the Global: Women and Religious Oppression in a Minor Film / Nava Dushi

Beaufort and My Father, My Lord: Traces of the Binding Myth and the Mother's Voice / Anat Zanger

Filming the Palestinian Other. The Foreigner Within and the Question of Identity in Fictitious Marriage and Streets of Yesterday

/ sandra meiri

a rave against the occupation?: speaking for the self and excluding the other in contemporary israeli political cinema / Dorit Naaman

Borders in Motion: The Evolution of the Portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Contemporary Israeli Cinema / Yael Ben-Zvi-Morad

Smashing Up the Face of History: Trauma and Subversion in Kedma and Atash / Nurith Gertz and Gal Hermoni

New Cinematic Discourses. Discursive Identities in the (R)evolution of the New Israeli Queer Cinema / Gilad Padva

Kibbutz Films in Transition: From Morality to Ethics / Eldad Kedem

The End of a World, the Beginning of a New World: The New Discourse of Authenticity and New Versions of Collective Memory in Israeli Cinema / Miri Talmon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780292725607

0292725604

OCLC:

679936782