03842nam 2200637Ia 450 991080772900332120200520144314.00-292-79794-X10.7560/747234(CKB)1000000000447348(OCoLC)234084009(CaPaEBR)ebrary10194787(SSID)ssj0000176127(PQKBManifestationID)11165759(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176127(PQKBWorkID)10203806(PQKB)10379036(MiAaPQ)EBC3443109(MdBmJHUP)muse1997(DE-B1597)587122(DE-B1597)9780292797949(EXLCZ)99100000000044734820010119d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIdentity politics on the Israeli screen /Yosefa Loshitzky1st ed.Austin, TX University of Texas Press20011 online resource (247 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-74723-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-214) and index.Machine generated contents note: ix Acknowledgments -- xi Introduction: Hybrid Victims -- 1 CHAPTER 1 -- SCREENING THE BIRTH OF A NATION: -- Exodus Revisited -- 15 CHAPTER 2 -- SURVIVING THE SURVIVORS: -- The Second Generation -- 32 CHAPTER 3 -- POSTMEMORY CINEMA: -- Second-Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust -- 72 CHAPTER 4 -- SHCHUR: -- The Orient Within -- 90 CHAPTER 5 -- IN THE LAND OF OZ: -- Orientalist Discourse in My Michael -- 112 CHAPTER 6 -- FORBIDDEN LOVE IN THE HOLY LAND: -- Transgressing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- 154 CHAPTER 7 -- THE DAY AFTER: -- The Sexual Economy of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- 169 Conclusion -- 173 Notes -- 215 Index.The struggle to forge a collective national identity at the expense of competing plural identities has preoccupied Israeli society since the founding of the state of Israel. In this book, Yosefa Loshitzky explores how major Israeli films of the 1980s and 1990s have contributed significantly to the process of identity formation by reflecting, projecting, and constructing debates around Israeli national identity. Loshitzky focuses on three major foundational sites of the struggle over Israeli identity: the Holocaust, the question of the Orient, and the so-called (in an ironic historical twist of the "Jewish question") Palestinian question. The films she discusses raise fundamental questions about the identity of Jewish Holocaust survivors and their children (the "second generation"), Jewish immigrants from Muslim countries or Mizrahim (particularly the second generation of Israeli Mizrahim), and Palestinians. Recognizing that victimhood marks all the identities represented in the films under discussion, Loshitzky does not treat each identity group as a separate and coherent entity, but rather attempts to see the conflation, interplay, and conflict among them.Motion picturesIsraelHistoryJews in motion picturesHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion picturesJewish-Arab relations in motion picturesArabs in motion picturesMotion picturesHistory.Jews in motion pictures.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.Jewish-Arab relations in motion pictures.Arabs in motion pictures.791.43/095694Loshitzky Yosefa1689444MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807729003321Identity politics on the Israeli screen4064525UNINA