1st Edition
Israeli Television Global Contexts, Local Visions
Introduction
Part 1. Television, History, and Collective Memory: TV Comes to the Israeli Home
1. Remembering Television in Mainstream Jewish Israel: From One Nation-One Channel to Commercial Tribalization
Jérôme Bourdon, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik
2. Dis-covering the Holocaust: Third Generation Discourse and Collective Memory in the documentary The Flat
Ruth Diskin
3. "Remember Them All": Reimagining Collective Memory in Sayed Kashua’s Israeli Sitcom Arab Labor
Shiri Goren
Part 2. Trauma, Terror and the Nation
4. Television in a Time of Terror: Trauma and Singular Plurality in the Series Fauda
Nurith Gertz and Raz Yosef
5. The Impossible Homecoming: The Israeli Television Series Prisoners of War (Hatufim)
Yael Munk
6. In the Name of the Father: The Paternal Lineage in the Television Drama Series Betipul and In Treatment
Miri Talmon
Part 3. Discourses of Place
7. A Place Outside of Place: Jerusalem in Television Drama of the Early 2000s
Anat Zanger
8. Places and Non-places in Israeli Music Videos as a New Type of Localization
Arielle Friedma
9. A Family Photo across the Atlantic Ocean: The Drama Series Bat Yam New York
Orna Lavy-Flint
Part 4. Varieties of Television Drama: The Popular and Social Discourse
10. Painting the Wall: Generations and Gentrification in the Israeli Television Drama Florentine
Alon Judkovsky
11. Mary Lou's Glee: Screening Young Gay Men's Musical Odyssey in Israeli and American TV Musicals
Gilad Padva
12. Transmedia Storytelling on Israeli Drama for Children
Yuval Gozansky and Gabriela Jonas Aharoni
13. Our Telenovelas: Israeli Telenovelas and Globalization
Gabriela Jonas Aharoni
Part 5. Humor and Identity Politics
14. Not Just Another Day at the Office: On the Subversive Dimension of the Israeli Adaptation of British Series The Office
Ronen Gil
15. Beyond the Chamber Quintet: Holocaust Humor on Israeli Television in the 2000s
Liat Steir-Livny
16. Political Opponents as Unruly Women: Gender Representations of Body, Voice and Space in Israeli Televised Satire
David Levin
Part 6. Documentary and Reality Television: Negotiating Israeliness
17. Identity, Politics and Everyday Life: Tomer Heymann's The Way Home
Dafna Hirsch
18. Privacy and Exposure on Israel’s Reality TV Show Big Brother
Amit Lavie-Dinur and Yuval Karniel
19. Mother Rules? Wife Swap Becomes Israeli
Tal Kurt and Miri Talmon
Biography
Miri Talmon is a scholar of media culture, cinema, and television, who specializes in the research and teaching of comparative approaches to the Israeli and American film and television cultures. She teaches at The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv University. Talmon is the author of Israeli Graffiti: Nostalgia, Groups and Collective Identity in Israeli Cinema (2001, Hebrew) and the editor, with Yaron Peleg, of the anthology Israeli Cinema—Identities in Motion (2011).
Yael Levy holds a PhD from the Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University, where she teaches courses in film, television, race, and feminist theories. She has published articles regarding gender, race, sexuality, and textuality in film and television, and her works have appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Lexington Books, and more.
