Identity politics on the Israeli screen [[electronic resource] /] / Yosefa Loshitzky

• Autore: Loshitzky Yosefa
• Pubblicazione: Austin, TX, : University of Texas Press, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/095694
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Israel - History; Jews in motion pictures; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures; Jewish-Arab relations in motion pictures; Arabs in motion pictures
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-214) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Identity politics on the Israeli screen
• ISBN: 0-292-79794-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777437703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II