Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion

Published by University of Texas Press 2011

Israeli Cinema

Identities in Motion

Edited by: Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg

https://doi.org/10.7560/725607

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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.

Author / Editor information

Miri Talmon is a scholar of Israeli cinema and culture who specializes in popular and folk Israeli culture. She has taught at the Open University of Israel, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, and Haifa University, as well as Wesleyan University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Israeli Graffiti: Nostalgia, Groups, and Collective Identity in Israeli Cinema (Hebrew title Blues La-Tzabar Ha-Avood).

A native of Israel, Yaron Peleg is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Director of the Hebrew Program at George Washington University. He is also the author of Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance, Derech Gever, and Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Part 1. The Nation Imagined on Film
1. Filming the Homeland: Cinema in Eretz Israel and the Zionist Movement, 1917–1939 Ariel L. Feldestein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Ariel L. Feldestein Jan-Christopher Horak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3. Ecce Homo: The Transfiguration of Israeli Manhood in Israeli Films Yaron Peleg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Part 2. War and Its Aftermath
4. From Hill to Hill: A Brief History of the Representation of War in Israeli Cinema Uri S. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
5. From Hero to Victim: The Changing Image of the Soldier on the Israeli Screen Eran Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
6. The Lady and the Death Mask Judd Neʾeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
7. Coping with the Legacy of Death: The War Widow in Israeli Films Yael Zerubavel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
8. The Privatization of War Memory in Recent Israeli Cinema Yael Munk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Part 3. An Ethno-Cultural Kaleidoscope
9. Disjointed Narratives in Contemporary Israeli Films Nitzan Ben Shaul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
10. Trajectories of Mizrahi Cinema Yaron Shemer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
11. Immigrant Cinema: Russian Israelis on Screens and behind the Cameras Olga Gershenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Part 4. Holocaust and Trauma
12. The Holocaust in Israeli Cinema as a Conflict between Survival and Morality Ilan Avisar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
13. Near and Far: The Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Feature Films Liat Steir-Livny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
14. Homonational Desires: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Trauma in the Cinema of Eytan Fox Raz Yosef Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Part 5. Jewish Orthodoxy Revisited
15. Negotiating Judaism in Contemporary Israeli Cinema: The Spiritual Style of My Father, My Lord Dan Chyutin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
16. Seeking the Local, Engaging the Global: Women and Religious Oppression in a Minor Film Nava Dushi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
17. Beaufort and My Father, My Lord: Traces of the Binding Myth and the Mother’s Voice Anat Zanger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Part 6. Filming the Palestinian Other
18. The Foreigner Within and the Question of Identity in Fictitious Marriage and Streets of Yesterday Sandra Meiri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
19. A Rave against the Occupation?: Speaking for the Self and Excluding the Other in Contemporary Israeli Political Cinema Dorit Naaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
20. Borders in Motion: The Evolution of the Portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Contemporary Israeli Cinema Yael Ben-Zvi-Morad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
21. Smashing Up the Face of History: Trauma and Subversion in Kedma and Atash Nurith Gertz and Gal Hermoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
Part 7. New Cinematic Discourses
22. Discursive Identities in the (R)evolution of the New Israeli Queer Cinema Gilad Padva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
23. Kibbutz Films in Transition: From Morality to Ethics Eldad Kedem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 391

eBook

Published: July 11, 2011
ISBN: 9780292735606