Identity politics on the Israeli screen / Yosefa Loshitzky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loshitzky, Yosefa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Israel--History.

Motion pictures.

Jews in motion pictures.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

Jewish-Arab relations in motion pictures.

Arabs in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The struggle to forge a collective national identity at the expense of competing plural identities has preoccupied Israeli society since the founding of the state of Israel. In this book, Yosefa Loshitzky explores how major Israeli films of the 1980s and 1990s have contributed significantly to the process of identity formation by reflecting, projecting, and constructing debates around Israeli national identity. Loshitzky focuses on three major foundational sites of the struggle over Israeli identity: the Holocaust, the question of the Orient, and the so-called (in an ironic historical twist of the "Jewish question") Palestinian question. The films she discusses raise fundamental questions about the identity of Jewish Holocaust survivors and their children (the "second generation"), Jewish immigrants from Muslim countries or Mizrahim (particularly the second generation of Israeli Mizrahim), and Palestinians. Recognizing that victimhood marks all the identities represented in the films under discussion, Loshitzky does not treat each identity group as a separate and coherent entity, but rather attempts to see the conflation, interplay, and conflict among them.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ix Acknowledgments

xi Introduction: Hybrid Victims

1 CHAPTER 1

SCREENING THE BIRTH OF A NATION:

Exodus Revisited

15 CHAPTER 2

SURVIVING THE SURVIVORS:

The Second Generation

32 CHAPTER 3

POSTMEMORY CINEMA:

Second-Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust

72 CHAPTER 4

SHCHUR:

The Orient Within

90 CHAPTER 5

IN THE LAND OF OZ:

Orientalist Discourse in My Michael

112 CHAPTER 6

FORBIDDEN LOVE IN THE HOLY LAND:

Transgressing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

154 CHAPTER 7

THE DAY AFTER:

The Sexual Economy of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

169 Conclusion

173 Notes

215 Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-214) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79794-X

OCLC:

234084009