Projecting the Nation

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.

• ContentsIntroduction                                                   1          Pioneers, Fighters and Immigrants                2          Looking Inward                                             3          Present Absentees                                          4          The Post-Zionist Condition                           5          The Post-Political Turn in Israeli Cinema     6          Eros on the Israeli Screen                              7          In the Image of the Divine                             Epilogue          Big Screens, Small Screens   Acknowledgments

"In Projecting the Nation, Eran Kaplan ingeniously analyzes the interrelation of aesthetic, economic, and social forces that have influenced Israeli filmmaking since the state's inception. Kaplan's interpretations of genres and individual films are smart, sophisticated, and engaging."— Derek Penslar, Author of Israel in History"In Projecting the Nation, Eran Kaplan ingeniously analyzes the interrelation of aesthetic, economic, and social forces that have influenced Israeli filmmaking since the state's inception. Kaplan's interpretations of genres and individual films are smart, sophisticated, and engaging."— Derek Penslar, Author of Israel in History