1st Edition

Contemporary Israeli Cinema Trauma, Ethics and Temporality

By Raz Yosef Copyright 2023
182 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Through analysis of the complex discourse surrounding trauma and loss, this book provides a necessary examination of temporality and ethics in Israeli film and television since the turn of the millennium. The author examines posttraumatic idioms of fragmentation and incoherence, highlighting the rising resistance towards generic categories, and the turn to unconventional and paradoxical... Read more

Introduction

1. Witnessing and Accountability

2. Documentary Reenactment and Ethics

3. Terror TV and Traumatic Time

4. Trauma and Women's Cinema

5. Melancholia and Queer Diaspora

6. Homonationalism and Transnational Temporalities

Biography

Raz Yosef is an Associate Professor and head of the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University, Israel. His research interests are on gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, trauma and memory in Israeli national visual culture.