Liberalization and culture in contemporary Israel / Ari Ofengenden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ofengenden, Ari, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Israel.

Globalization.

Liberalism--Israel.

Liberalism.

Nationalism--Israel.

Nationalism.

Israel.

Physical Description:

xvi, 195 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, [Maryland] : Lexington Books, [2018]

Summary:

In this book, Ari Ofengenden examines the ways that Israel's integration into global economy has affected its main stream culture. Ofengenden uses works of Israeli film, literature, and television, from the past 30 years to conceptualise the changes in Israel's culture. He analyses the central phenomena associated with Israel's integration into the global economy including: the demise of realism and the rise of commercial culture, the production of film, television, and novels for western audiences, and the critiques of capitalism in media. Ofengenden also explores the refiguring national identity through critique of masculinity. The book also discusses the affect globalisation and marketisation has had on modern narratives of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Contents:

1 Economics and Cultural Globalization in Israel: A Historical Introduction p. 1

The Era of Big State p. 1

The Immediate Background: Individual Sensitivity in the 1960s and 1970s p. 5

Liberalizing Israeli Society in the 1990s: A Bridge to the Present p. 9

Culture and Marketization of Media p. 19

Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Culture: General Parameters p. 20

The Cultural Causalities of Market Capitalism: The Decline in Modernism and Realism p. 23

Commercial Culture and Its Detractors p. 25

Individualization, Liberalization, and Global Marketization in Israeli Culture p. 27

2 Marketization in Israeli Television, Film, and Literature p. 33

Israeli Reality Television and Celebrity Culture p. 33

Nir Baram's World Shadow and Zippi Brand's Google Baby p. 40

Israeli Condition and the Global Market p. 46

3 It Ain't Europe Here p. 53

The Milky Protest p. 55

Where Is Israel? p. 57

4 Refiguring National Identity under Globalization p. 75

The New Jew: The Israeli Imaginary p. 76

Walk on Water: Rewriting the Soul with the New Big Other p. 80

Narratives of Parody, Madness, and Disintegration p. 83

Dolly, City Critique, and Parody of National Parenting p. 85

Challenging National Identity: Assimilation and Mimicry p. 87

Big Brother and Its New Political Uses p. 90

Refiguring National Identity in Globalizing World p. 92

5 The New Discourses or the Culture of the Left p. 97

Citizenship and Discourse p. 98

Neo-Republican Discourse: Myth and Reality p. 101

The Old-New Axis or the Nation-State in a Time of Globalization p. 113

6 New Dystopias in Israeli Fiction p. 121

The Sea above Us p. 123

Three Kinds of Discourses: Zionist, Liberal, and Ecological p. 126

The Land Is Sailing p. 129

Dystopia in Dolly City p. 131

Contextualizing Israeli Dystopian Visions and the Atrophy of Modernity p. 137

7 The Conflict beyond Nationalism: The Second Intifada in Film and Narrative p. 145

The Attack p. 146

Politics of Bereavement and the Making of a Civil Society p. 150

Bereaved Mothers across Borders p. 153

To Die in Jerusalem p. 158

Bethlehem p. 165

The Green Prince and Son of Hamas p. 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1498570356

9781498570350

OCLC:

1036240303