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Projecting the nation : history and ideology on the Israeli screen

Title
Projecting the nation : history and ideology on the Israeli screen / Eran Kaplan.
Author
Kaplan, Eran
Publication
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

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Description
vii, 203 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema. By analyzing Israeli films which address such issues as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide, the kibbutz, the rise of religion in Israel, the book explores the way cinema has represented and shaped our understanding of the Israeli history as it evolved from a collectivist society to a society where individualism and adherence to local identities is the dominant ideology"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pioneers, fighters and immigrants -- Looking inward -- Present absentees -- The post-Zionist condition -- The post-political turn in Israeli cinema -- Eros on the Israeli screen -- In the image of the divine -- Epilogue. Big screens, small screens.
ISBN
  • 9781978813397
  • 1978813392
  • 9781978813380
  • 1978813384
  • 9781978813403 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2019034241
OCLC
  • on1114270206
  • 1114270206
  • SCSB-9732526
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library