Television drama in Israel : identities in post-TV culture / Itay Harlap.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harlap, Itay, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television series--Israel--History and criticism.

Television series.

Identity (Psychology) and mass media--Israel.

Identity (Psychology) and mass media.

Israel.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 199 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

Israeli television, currently celebrating fifty years of broadcasting, has become one of the most important content sources on the international TV drama market, when serials such as Homeland, Hostages, Fauda, Zaguory Empire and In Treatment were bought by international networks, HBO included. Offering both a textual reading and discourse analysis of contemporary Israeli television dramas, Itay Harlap adopts a case study approach in order to address production, reception and technological developments in its accounts. His premise is that the meeting point between social trends within Israeli society (primarily the rise of opposition groups to the hegemony of the Zionist-Jewish-masculine-Ashkenazi ideologies) and major changes in the medium in Israel (which are comparable to international changes that have been titled "post-TV"), led to the creation of television dramas characterized by controversial themes and complex narratives, which present identities in ways never seen before on television or in other Israeli mediums.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Harlap, Itay, 1974- author. Television drama in Israel

ISBN:

9781501328930

150132893X

OCLC:

967056738