Raz Yosef

The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the most striking phenomena in contemporary Israeli cinema is the number and scope of films dealing with past traumatic events ¿ events that were repressed or insufficiently mourned, such as the memory of the Holocaust, traumas from wars and terrorist attacks, and the losses entailed by the experience of immigration.This book examines the complex and crucial role of Israeli cinema in remembering and restaging traumas and losses that were denied entry into the shared national past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415876889
• ISBN-10: 0415876885
• Artikelnr.: 32302171

Autorenporträt

Raz Yosef is Senior Lecturer in The Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Specters Of War 1: Ruptures of History: Trauma, Memory
and the Archive in Beaufort 2: Spectacles of Pain: War, Trauma and Male
Masochism in Kippur Part 2: Trauma and Ethnicity Chapter 3: Restaging the
Primal Scene: Melancholia and Ethnicity in Cinema Egypt and Desperado
Square Chapter 4: Recycled Wounds: Trauma, Gender and Ethnicity in Or, My
Treasure Part 3: Sexuality and Loss Chapter 5: The National Closet: Trauma,
Loss and Sex in Yossi and Jagger Chapter 6: Phantasmatic Losses: National
Traumas, Masculinity and the Primal Fantasy in Walk on Water Part 4: Trauma
and Ethics Chapter 7: The Identity of the Victim: Trauma and Responsibility
in Beaufort, Lebanon, Waltz with Bashir and Forgiveness