Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen
Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema.  The only book in English to offer this type of historical scope was Ella Shohat’s Israeli Cinema: East West and the Politics of Representation from 1989.  Since 1989, however, Israeli cinema and Israeli society have undergone some crucial transformations and, moreover, Shohat’s book offered a single framework through which to judge Israeli cinema: a critique of orientalism. Projecting the Nation contends that Israeli cinema offers much richer historical and ideological perspectives that expose the complexity of the Israeli project.  By analyzing Israeli films which address such issues as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide, the kibbutz and urban life, the rise of religion in Israeli public life and more, the book explores the way cinema has represented and also shaped our understanding of the history of modern Israel as it evolved from a collectivist society to a society where individualism and adherence to local identities is the dominant ideology. 
 
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Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen
Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema.  The only book in English to offer this type of historical scope was Ella Shohat’s Israeli Cinema: East West and the Politics of Representation from 1989.  Since 1989, however, Israeli cinema and Israeli society have undergone some crucial transformations and, moreover, Shohat’s book offered a single framework through which to judge Israeli cinema: a critique of orientalism. Projecting the Nation contends that Israeli cinema offers much richer historical and ideological perspectives that expose the complexity of the Israeli project.  By analyzing Israeli films which address such issues as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide, the kibbutz and urban life, the rise of religion in Israeli public life and more, the book explores the way cinema has represented and also shaped our understanding of the history of modern Israel as it evolved from a collectivist society to a society where individualism and adherence to local identities is the dominant ideology. 
 
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Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen

Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen

by Eran Kaplan
Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen

Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen

by Eran Kaplan

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Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema.  The only book in English to offer this type of historical scope was Ella Shohat’s Israeli Cinema: East West and the Politics of Representation from 1989.  Since 1989, however, Israeli cinema and Israeli society have undergone some crucial transformations and, moreover, Shohat’s book offered a single framework through which to judge Israeli cinema: a critique of orientalism. Projecting the Nation contends that Israeli cinema offers much richer historical and ideological perspectives that expose the complexity of the Israeli project.  By analyzing Israeli films which address such issues as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide, the kibbutz and urban life, the rise of religion in Israeli public life and more, the book explores the way cinema has represented and also shaped our understanding of the history of modern Israel as it evolved from a collectivist society to a society where individualism and adherence to local identities is the dominant ideology. 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781978813380
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 05/15/2020
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Eran Kaplan is the Goldman Professor in Israel Studies at San Francisco State University.  He is the author of Beyond Post Zionism, The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and Its Ideological Legacy, and with Derek Penslar of The Origins of Israel, 1882-1948: A Documentary History

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Pioneers, Fighters, and Immigrants 11

2 Looking Inward 34

3 Present Absentees 59

4 The Post-Zionist Condition 84

5 The Lebanon Trilogy and the Postpolitical Turn in Israeli Cinema 105

6 Eros on the Israeli Screen 128

7 In the Image of the Divine 158

Epilogue: Big Screens, Small Screens 182

Acknowledgments 187

Notes 189

Index 201

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