Contributors to This Issue

Ilan Avisar is an associate Professor in the Film & TV Department at Tel Aviv University. After completing his Ph.D. degree at Indiana University, he taught at the Ohio State University for five years. He was also a visiting professor at SUNY, Albany and the Pandos visiting professor at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on Holocaust representations, Israeli films, and Jewish cinema. He is the author of Screening the Holocaust: Cinema's Images of the Unimaginable (1988), Visions of Israel: Israeli Filmmakers and Images of the Jewish State (1997, rpt. 2002), Film Art: the Techniques and Poetics of Cinematic Expression (1995, in Hebrew), and the Israeli Scene: Language, Cinema, Discourse (2005, in Hebrew).

Nitzan Ben-Shaul received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Cinema Studies Department, New York University. He is a senior lecturer in the Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University and former head of the department. His previous publications include two books (Mythical Expressions of Siege in Israeli Films, Edwin Mellen Press, 1997 and Introduction to Film Theories, Dyonon, 2000) as well as articles and book reviews on film, television and new media (e.g., Third Text, New Cinemas Journal, Film Quarterly).

Régine-Mihal Friedman is Professor in the Department of Cinema and Television at Tel-Aviv University. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg with a thesis on Nazi Cinema, published as L'Image et son Juif. She collaborates regularly on the German Feminist Journal Frauen und Film and has written on Israeli cinema. Recent publications include works on Carl Mayer, on Andre Delvaux, and extensively on the testimonial films emanating from "the Generations of the Aftermath."

Nurith Gertz is Professor of cinema and literature in the Open University and Tel Aviv University, Israel. Among her recent books are El Ma Shenamog (Not From Here) (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1997; in Hebrew) and Myths in Israeli Culture (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000; Parker-Wiener Series, Parkes Center, University of Southampton & Wiener Library).

Sandra Meiri has been teaching courses on cinema theory, feminism, gender, and transgender at the Department of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. She is also Course Coordinator and teacher in the Department of Literature, Linguistics and the Arts, The Open University, Tel-Aviv.

Yehuda Judd Ne'eman is a Full Professor at the Department of Film and Television at Tel-Aviv University, which he has chaired for seven years. Ne'eman has produced and directed feature films and documentaries for cinema and television. His films Paratroopers [Maasa Alunkot] (1977) [Hebrew], Seamen's Strike [Mered Hayamaim] (1981) [Hebrew], and Streets of Yesterday (1989, produced for Channel 4 Television of London) have been invited to festivals and shown on TV in many countries. He has published articles and co-written and co-edited books on Israeli cinema, including the section on Israeli Cinema in the Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film (London: Routledge). He has been a visiting professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and is currently doing research on war films, editing a documentary feature "Not Like Poetry," and preparing a feature film, Nuz'hat al-Fuad.

Gal Raz is currently a graduate student in the Unit of Culture Research at Tel Aviv University, where he is also completing a degree in biology in the Faculty of Life Sciences. He teaches in the Film and Television Department of Tel Aviv University and works as a news editor for the Galei Zahal (Israeli army radio) website. His main fields of interest are Israeli cinema, pre-State and contemporary Israeli culture, Sociology of Culture, and Media Studies.

Raz Yosef holds a Ph.D. in cinema studies from New York University. He teaches in the Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University and at Sapir College, Israel. He is the author of Beyond Flesh: Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema (Rutgers, 2004) and of articles on gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in Israeli...