New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre - Couverture rigide

Gershenson, Olga

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1978837852 ISBN 13 : 9781978837850

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell their story. Through in-depth analysis, engaging storytelling, and interviews with the filmmakers, Olga Gershenson explores their films from inception to reception. She shows how these films challenge traditional representations of Israel and its people, while also appealing to audiences around the world.

Gershenson introduces an innovative conceptual framework of adaptation, which explains how filmmakers adapt global genre tropes to local reality. It illuminates the ways in which Israeli horror borrows and diverges from its international models. New Israeli Horror offers an exciting and original contribution to our understanding of both Israeli cinema and the horror genre.

A companion website to this book is available at https: //websites.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/

Book trailer: https: //youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw (https: //youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw)

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

OLGA GERSHENSON is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and of Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe and Gesher: Russian Theater in Israel, and editor of Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender. To learn more about her work, see www.people.umass.edu/olga

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1978837852
• ISBN 13: 9781978837850
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible