Place, Memory and Myth in Contemporary Israeli Cinema - Couverture rigide

Zanger, Anat Y.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0853038457 ISBN 13 : 9780853038450

Editeur : Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Place, Memory and Myth in Contemporary Israeli Cinema examines several Israeli fictional and non-fictional films, and how their portrayal of landscape and territory provides a unique perspective on Jewish and Israeli identity. Zanger demonstrates how space in film is not only a 'container' for events in the plot but an event in and of itself, since space and place are significant elements in the on-going negotiations regarding Jewish and Israeli identity. Films capture more than just the outward appearance of a place: they also record a web of unruly traces of economic, social and political systems. Space and place have always been significant elements in Israeli identity. As conditions change, the perception of these elements alters. Almost 2,000 years of Jewish exile created a gap between the idea of 'the Israeli place' and how the modern State of Israel has actualized that idea. Since Israel's establishment, the inherent friction between the idea and the actuality continues to increase. Israeli cinema contains layered expressions of this friction, and at the heart of this unresolved quarrel, place and space function in this book both as the subject matter of the analysis and as a theoretical tool. A critical analysis of Israeli films will trace the division as well as the connection between the cinematic frame and the Zionist one. This innovative perspective enables us to discern themes significant both to contemporary culture (maps, borders, checkpoints and military zones) and Jewish mythology (garden, desert, water, Jerusalem and sacred space). The author includes references to Israeli literature and art, and interweaves observations from the fields of visual studies, cultural studies, mythology and Jewish thought, as well as cinema studies, to create a stimulating analysis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anat Zanger is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Film and Television, and Chair of the MA Program in Film and Television, at the Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University. She is author of Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguises (Amsterdam University Press, 2006) and has published articles in many journals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0853038457
• ISBN 13: 9780853038450
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible