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In the first anthology of its kind in English, leading Israeli film scholars explore how one of the world’s most exciting emerging cinemas has become a vibrant site for the representation of Israeli realities.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One. The Nation Imagined on Film
    • 1. Filming the Homeland: Cinema in Eretz Israel and the Zionist Movement, 1917–1939 (Ariel L. Feldestein)
    • 2. Helmar Lerski in Israel (Jan-Christopher Horak)
    • 3. Ecce Homo: The Transfiguration of Israeli Manhood in Israeli Films (Yaron Peleg)
  • Part Two. War and Its Aftermath
    • 4. From Hill to Hill: A Brief History of the Representation of War in Israeli Cinema (Uri S. Cohen)
    • 5. From Hero to Victim: The Changing Image of the Soldier on the Israeli Screen (Eran Kaplan)
    • 6. The Lady and the Death Mask (Judd Ne’eman)
    • 7. Coping with the Legacy of Death: The War Widow in Israeli Films (Yael Zerubavel)
    • 8. The Privatization of War Memory in Recent Israeli Cinema (Yael Munk)
  • Part Three. An Ethno-Cultural Kaleidoscope
    • 9. Disjointed Narratives in Contemporary Israeli Films (Nitzan Ben Shaul)
    • 10. Trajectories of Mizrahi Cinema (Yaron Shemer)
    • 11. Immigrant Cinema: Russian Israelis on Screens and behind the Cameras (Olga Gershenson)
  • Part Four. Holocaust and Trauma
    • 12. The Holocaust in Israeli Cinema as a Conflict between Survival and Morality (Ilan Avisar)
    • 13. Near and Far: The Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Feature Films, 1945–2010 (Liat Steir-Livny)
    • 14. Homonational Desires: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Cinema of Eytan Fox (Raz Yosef)
  • Part Five. Jewish Orthodoxy Revisited
    • 15. Negotiating Judaism in Contemporary Israeli Cinema: The Spiritual Style of My Father, My Lord (Dan Chyutin)
    • 16. Seeking the Local, Engaging the Global: Women and Religious Oppression in a Minor Film (Nava Dushi)
    • 17. Beaufort and My Father, My Lord: Traces of the Binding Myth and the Mother’s Voice (Anat Zanger)
  • Part Six. Filming the Palestinian Other
    • 18. The Foreigner Within and the Question of Identity in Fictitious Marriage and Streets of Yesterday (Sandra Meiri)
    • 19. A Rave against the Occupation?: Speaking for the Self and Excluding the Other in Contemporary Israeli Political Cinema (Dorit Naaman)
    • 20. Borders in Motion: The Evolution of the Portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Contemporary Israeli Cinema (Yael Ben-Zvi-Morad)
    • 21. Smashing Up the Face of History: Trauma and Subversion in Kedma and Atash (Nurith Gertz and Gal Hermoni)
  • Part Seven. New Cinematic Discourses
    • 22. Discursive Identities in the (R)evolution of the New Israeli Queer Cinema (Gilad Padva)
    • 23. Kibbutz Films in Transition: From Morality to Ethics (Eldad Kedem)
    • 24. 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)
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

Israeli Cinema Identities in Motion

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2011
      ISBN13: 9780292743991, 978-0292743991
      ISBN10: 0292743998

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the first anthology of its kind in English, leading Israeli film scholars explore how one of the world’s most exciting emerging cinemas has become a vibrant site for the representation of Israeli realities.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction
      • Part One. The Nation Imagined on Film
        • 1. Filming the Homeland: Cinema in Eretz Israel and the Zionist Movement, 1917–1939 (Ariel L. Feldestein)
        • 2. Helmar Lerski in Israel (Jan-Christopher Horak)
        • 3. Ecce Homo: The Transfiguration of Israeli Manhood in Israeli Films (Yaron Peleg)
      • Part Two. War and Its Aftermath
        • 4. From Hill to Hill: A Brief History of the Representation of War in Israeli Cinema (Uri S. Cohen)
        • 5. From Hero to Victim: The Changing Image of the Soldier on the Israeli Screen (Eran Kaplan)
        • 6. The Lady and the Death Mask (Judd Ne’eman)
        • 7. Coping with the Legacy of Death: The War Widow in Israeli Films (Yael Zerubavel)
        • 8. The Privatization of War Memory in Recent Israeli Cinema (Yael Munk)
      • Part Three. An Ethno-Cultural Kaleidoscope
        • 9. Disjointed Narratives in Contemporary Israeli Films (Nitzan Ben Shaul)
        • 10. Trajectories of Mizrahi Cinema (Yaron Shemer)
        • 11. Immigrant Cinema: Russian Israelis on Screens and behind the Cameras (Olga Gershenson)
      • Part Four. Holocaust and Trauma
        • 12. The Holocaust in Israeli Cinema as a Conflict between Survival and Morality (Ilan Avisar)
        • 13. Near and Far: The Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Feature Films, 1945–2010 (Liat Steir-Livny)
        • 14. Homonational Desires: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Cinema of Eytan Fox (Raz Yosef)
      • Part Five. Jewish Orthodoxy Revisited
        • 15. Negotiating Judaism in Contemporary Israeli Cinema: The Spiritual Style of My Father, My Lord (Dan Chyutin)
        • 16. Seeking the Local, Engaging the Global: Women and Religious Oppression in a Minor Film (Nava Dushi)
        • 17. Beaufort and My Father, My Lord: Traces of the Binding Myth and the Mother’s Voice (Anat Zanger)
      • Part Six. Filming the Palestinian Other
        • 18. The Foreigner Within and the Question of Identity in Fictitious Marriage and Streets of Yesterday (Sandra Meiri)
        • 19. A Rave against the Occupation?: Speaking for the Self and Excluding the Other in Contemporary Israeli Political Cinema (Dorit Naaman)
        • 20. Borders in Motion: The Evolution of the Portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Contemporary Israeli Cinema (Yael Ben-Zvi-Morad)
        • 21. Smashing Up the Face of History: Trauma and Subversion in Kedma and Atash (Nurith Gertz and Gal Hermoni)
      • Part Seven. New Cinematic Discourses
        • 22. Discursive Identities in the (R)evolution of the New Israeli Queer Cinema (Gilad Padva)
        • 23. Kibbutz Films in Transition: From Morality to Ethics (Eldad Kedem)
        • 24. 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)
      • List of Contributors
      • Index

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