Israeli Cinema [[electronic resource] ] : Identities in Motion / / edited by Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456426903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-292-73560-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Collana: Jewish history, life, and culture
• Altri autori (Persone): PelegYaron; TalmonMiri
• Disciplina: 791.43095694
• Soggetti: Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures; Motion pictures - Israel; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.