Research Catalog

Title

Israeli cinema : identities in motion / edited by Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Talmon, Miri.
• Peleg, Yaron.

Description

xvii, 373 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Jewish history, life and culture

Uniform Title

Jewish history, life, and culture.

Subject

• Motion pictures > Israel
• Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The nation imagined on film. Filming the homeland: cinema in Eretz Israel and the Zionist movement, 1917-1939 / Ariel L. Feldestein -- Helmar Lerski in Israel / Jan-Christopher Horak -- Ecce Homo: The Transfiguration of Israeli Manhood in Israeli Films / Yaron Peleg -- War and Its Aftermath. From Hill to Hill: A Brief History of the Representation of War in Israeli Cinema / Uri S. Cohen -- From Hero to Victim: The Changing Image of the Soldier on the Israeli Screen / Eran Kaplan -- The Lady and the Death Mask / Judd Neeman -- Coping with the Legacy of Death: The War Widow in Israeli Films / Yael Zerubavel -- The Privatization of War Memory in Recent Israeli Cinema / Yael Munk -- An Ethno-Cultural Kaleidoscope. Disjointed Narratives in Contemporary Israeli Films / Nitzan Ben Shaul -- Trajectories of Mizrahi Cinema / Yaron Shemer -- Immigrant Cinema: Russian Israelis on Screens and behind the Cameras / Olga Gershenson -- Holocaust and Trauma. The Holocaust in Israeli Cinema as a Conflict between Survival and Morality / Ilan Avisar -- Near and Far: The Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Feature Films, 1945-2010 / Liat Steir-Livny -- Homonational Desires: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Cinema of Eytan Fox / Raz Yosef -- Jewish Orthodoxy Revisited. Negotiating Judaism in Contemporary Israeli Cinema: The Spiritual Style of My Father, My Lord / Dan Chyutin -- Seeking the Local, Engaging the Global: Women and Religious Oppression in a Minor Film / Nava Dushi -- Beaufort and My Father, My Lord: Traces of the Binding Myth and the Mother's Voice / Anat Zanger -- Filming the Palestinian Other. The Foreigner Within and the Question of Identity in Fictitious Marriage and Streets of Yesterday -- / sandra meiri -- a rave against the occupation?: speaking for the self and excluding the other in contemporary israeli political cinema / Dorit Naaman -- Borders in Motion: The Evolution of the Portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Contemporary Israeli Cinema / Yael Ben-Zvi-Morad -- Smashing Up the Face of History: Trauma and Subversion in Kedma and Atash / Nurith Gertz and Gal Hermoni -- New Cinematic Discourses. Discursive Identities in the (R)evolution of the New Israeli Queer Cinema / Gilad Padva -- Kibbutz Films in Transition: From Morality to Ethics / Eldad Kedem -- 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.

Call Number

MFL 11-7976

ISBN

• 9780292725607 (alk. paper)
• 0292725604 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2011003827

OCLC

679936782

Title

Israeli cinema : identities in motion / edited by Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg.

Imprint

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Jewish history, life and culture

Jewish history, life, and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Talmon, Miri.

Peleg, Yaron.

Research Call Number

MFL 11-7976