Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen / / Yosefa Loshitzky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Loshitzky, Yosefa,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The struggle to forge a collective national identity at the expense of competing plural identities has preoccupied Israeli society since the founding of the state of Israel. In this book, Yosefa Loshitzky explores how major Israeli films of the 1980s and 1990s have contributed significantly to the process of identity formation by reflecting, projecting, and constructing debates around Israeli national identity. Loshitzky focuses on three major foundational sites of the struggle over Israeli identity: the Holocaust, the question of the Orient, and the so-called (in an ironic historical twist of the "Jewish question") Palestinian question. The films she discusses raise fundamental questions about the identity of Jewish Holocaust survivors and their children (the "second generation"), Jewish immigrants from Muslim countries or Mizrahim (particularly the second generation of Israeli Mizrahim), and Palestinians. Recognizing that victimhood marks all the identities represented in the films under discussion, Loshitzky does not treat each identity group as a separate and coherent entity, but rather attempts to see the conflation, interplay, and conflict among them.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hybrid Victims -- Chapter one Screening the Birth of a Nation: Exodus Revisited -- Chapter two Surviving the Survivors: The Second Generation -- Chapter three Postmemory Cinema: Second-Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust -- Chapter four Shchur: The Orient Within -- Chapter five In the Land of Oz: Orientalist Discourse in My Michael -- Chapter six Forbidden Love in the Holy Land: Transgressing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Chapter seven The Day After: The Sexual Economy of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index