Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion

Contents

Introduction ix Part 1. The Nation imagined on Film 1. Filming the Homeland: Cinema in Eretz Israel and the Zionist Movement, 1917–1939 Ariel L. Feldestein 3 2. Helmar Lerski in Israel Jan-Christopher Horak 16 3. Ecce Homo: The Transfiguration of Israeli Manhood in Israeli Films Yaron Peleg 30 Part 2. War and its Aftermath 4. From Hill to Hill: A Brief History of the Representation of War in Israeli Cinema Uri S. Cohen 43 5. From Hero to Victim: The Changing Image of the Soldier on the Israeli Screen Eran Kaplan 59 6. The Lady and the Death Mask Judd Neʾeman 70 CONTENTS 7. Coping with the Legacy of Death: The War Widow in Israeli Films Yael Zerubavel 84 8. The Privatization of War Memory in Recent Israeli Cinema Yael Munk 96 Part 3. An Ethno-Cultural Kaleidoscope 9. Disjointed Narratives in Contemporary Israeli Films Nitzan Ben Shaul 113 10. Trajectories of Mizrahi Cinema Yaron Shemer 120 11. Immigrant Cinema: Russian Israelis on Screens and behind the Cameras Olga Gershenson 134 Part 4. holocaust and Trauma 12. The Holocaust in Israeli Cinema as a Conflict between Survival and Morality Ilan Avisar 151 13. Near and Far: The Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Feature Films Liat Steir-Livny 168 14. Homonational Desires: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Trauma in the Cinema of Eytan Fox Raz Yosef 181 Part 5. Jewish orthodoxy revisited 15. Negotiating Judaism in Contemporary Israeli Cinema: The Spiritual Style of My Father, My Lord Dan Chyutin 201 16. Seeking the Local, Engaging the Global: Women and Religious Oppression in a Minor Film Nava Dushi 213 17. Beaufort and My Father, My Lord: Traces of the Binding Myth and the Mother’s Voice Anat Zanger 225 Part 6. Filming the Palestinian other 18. The Foreigner Within and the Question of Identity in Fictitious Marriage and Streets of Yesterday Sandra Meiri 241 19. A Rave against the Occupation?: Speaking for the Self and Excluding the Other in Contemporary Israeli Political Cinema Dorit Naaman 257 20. Borders in Motion: The Evolution of the Portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Contemporary Israeli Cinema Yael Ben-Zvi-Morad 276 21. Smashing Up the Face of History: Trauma and Subversion in Kedma and Atash Nurith Gertz and Gal Hermoni 294 Part 7. New Cinematic Discourses 22. Discursive Identities in the (R)evolution of the New Israeli Queer Cinema Gilad Padva 313 23. Kibbutz Films in Transition: From Morality to Ethics Eldad Kedem 326 24. 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 340 Contributors 357 Index 363 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...