Deeper than Oblivion

Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Av Raz Yosef, Boaz Hagin, Israel) Yosef, Raz (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Hagin, Boaz (Tel Aviv University

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In this collection, leading scholars in both film studies and Israeli studies show that beyond representing familiar historical accounts or striving to offer a more complete and accurate depiction of the past, Israeli cinema has innovatively used trauma and memory to offer insights about Israeli society and to engage with cinematic experimentation and invention.Tracing a long line of films from the 1940s up to the 2000s, the contributors use close readings of these films not only to reconstruct the past, but also to actively engage with it. Addressing both high-profile and lesser known fiction and non-fiction Israeli films, Deeper than Oblivion underlines the unique aesthetic choices many of these films make in their attempt to confront the difficulties, perhaps even impossibility, of representing trauma. By looking at recent and classic examples of Israeli films that turn to memory and trauma, this book addresses the pressing issues and disputes in the field today.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-08-01
Mått152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt702 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury 3PL
Antal sidor384
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781441162199

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Raz Yosef is Senior Lecturer and the chair of the cinema studies B.A. Program at the Department of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Beyond Flesh: Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema (2004), To Know a Man: Masculinity, Sexuality and Ethnicity in Israeli Cinema (2010, in Hebrew), The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema (2011), and co-editor of Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic (2011). Boaz Hagin is Lecturer at the Department of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University. He is author of Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema (2010), co-editor of Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic (2011), and co-author with Thomas Elsaesser of Memory, Trauma, and Fantasy in American Cinema (2012, in Hebrew).

AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Sweet on the Inside: Trauma, Memory, and Israeli CinemaBoaz Hagin and Raz YosefChapter 2:Postscript to Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation Ella ShohatChapter 3:Gender, the Military, Memory, and the Photograph: Tamar Yarom’s To See If I’m Smiling and American Films about Abu GhraibDiane WaldmanChapter 4:The Event and the Picture: David Perlov’s My Stills and Memories of the Eichmann TrialAnat ZangerChapter 5:The Agonies of an Eternal Victim: Zionist Guilt in Avi Mograbi’s Happy Birthday, Mr. MograbiShmulik DuvdevaniChapter 6:Traces of War: Memory, Trauma, and the Archive in Joseph Cedar’s BeaufortRaz YosefChapter 7:Memory of a Death Foretold: Fathers and Sons in Assi Dayan's “Trilogy” Yael MunkChapter 8:Queering Terror: Trauma, Race, and Nationalism in Palestinian and Israeli Gay Cinema during the Second IntifadaRaya MoragChapter 9:“Our Traumas”: Terrorism, Tradition, and Mind Games in Frozen DaysBoaz HaginChapter 10:History of Violence: From the Trauma of Expulsion to the Holocaust in Israeli Cinema Nurith Gertz and Gal Hermoni Chapter 11: Last Train to the HolocaustJudd Ne'eman and Nerit GrossmanChapter 12: Passages, Wars, and Encounters with Death: The Desert as a Site of Memory in Israeli FilmYael Zerubavel Chapter 13: “Walking through walls”: Documentary Film and Other Technologies of Navigation, Aspiration, and MemoryJanet WalkerNotes on ContributorsIndex

This intriguing collection of essays provides a perceptive and thought provoking look at Israeli cinema and its relations to Israeli society. It contains various approaches to the cinematic contemplations of 'trauma' in Israeli film, which shed new light on the fundamentals of the Israeli experience in the past decades. In going beyond the commonly discussed canon of Israeli films, the articles in Deeper than Oblivion illustrate the contour of a novel framework for the reading of Israeli cinema and its cultural significance. It is an essential addition to the growing scholarship on Israeli culture.