Israeli cinema : identities in motion / edited by Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. The nation imagined on film -- Filming the Homeland: cinema in Eretz Israel and the Zionist movement, 1917-1939 -- Helmar Lerski in Israel -- Ecce Homo: the transfiguration of Israel manhood in Israeli films -- pt. 2. War and its aftermath -- From hill to hill: a brief history of the representation of war in Israeli cinema -- From hero to victim: the changing image of the soldier on the Israeli screen -- The Lady and the Death mask -- Coping with the legacy of death: the war widow in Israeli films -- The privatization of war memory in recent Israeli cinema -- pt. 3. An ethno-cultural kaleidoscope -- Disjointed narratives in contemporary Israeli films -- Trajectories of Mizrahi cinema -- Inmigrant cinema: Russian Israelis on screens and behind the cameras -- pt. 4. Holocaust and trauma -- The holocaust in Israeli cinema as a conflict between survival and morality -- Near and far: the representation of holocaust survivors in Israeli feature films -- Homonational desires: masculinity, sexuality, and trauma in the cinema of Eytan Fox -- pt. 5. Jewish orthodoxy revisited -- Negotiating Judaism in contemporary Israeli cinema: the spiritual style of My father, my Lord -- Seeking the local, engaging the global: women and religious oppression in a minor film -- Beaufort and My father, my Lord: traces of the binding myth and the mother's voice -- pt. 6. Filming the Palestinian other -- The foreigner within and the question of identity in Fictitious marriage and Streets of yesterday -- A rave against the occupation?: speaking for the self and excluding the other in contemporary Israeli political cinema -- Borders in motion: the evolution of the portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in contemporary Israeli cinema -- Smashing up the face of history: trauma and subversion in Kedma and Atash -- pt. 7. New cinematic discourses -- Discursive identities in the (r)evolution of the new Israeli queer cinema -- Kibbutz films in transition: from morality to ethics -- The end of a world, the beginning of a new world: the new discourse of authenticity and the new versions of collective memory in Israeli cinema.