{"title":"Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany by Valerie Weinstein (review)","authors":"P. Lassner","doi":"10.1353/jfn.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jfn.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"232 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88574998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Etiology of a Jewish Homeland: When Claude Lanzmann Visited Israel","authors":"Ohad Landesman","doi":"10.1353/jfn.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jfn.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay focuses on Pourquoi Israel (1973) and Tsahal (1994), two films from Claude Lanzmann's trilogy about contemporary Jewish history that were shot entirely in Israel. It argues that these films maintain a delicate balance between insider and outsider perspectives. On one hand, they are personal works of a filmmaker struggling to defend his views on Israel as a Jewish intellectual living abroad, thus maintaining an empathetic rhetoric that often prevents him from expressing reservations. On the other hand, they flag and make use of Lanzmann's unique outlook as a foreigner as a filmic strategy meant to understand whether the search for normal existence in Israel is a viable option and whether normality in a place like Israel, or even Jewish existence itself, is a kind of anomaly. When his personal investment does not obfuscate his ability to observe reality from an outsider-looking-in perspective, a situation that occurs more in Pourquoi Israel than in Tsahal, Lanzmann is able to foreshadow and reveal concerns, conflicts, and problems that the local perspective in those early years was unable to fully tackle or comprehend.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"27 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90688988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Juda and the New Jew: Undead Jewish Israeli Identities","authors":"Vered Weiss","doi":"10.1353/jfn.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jfn.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Under the cloak of the vampire, Juda, the 2017 Israeli television series, invites viewers to reconsider fundamental questions regarding Israeli identities. Working with some of the vampire genre's famous tropes, Juda exposes social concerns of twenty-first-century Jewish Israeli society regarding gender roles, religion, and nationalism. Considering elements that render Juda unique, as well as other features that locate the series in transnational conventions of vampire lore, this article shows how Juda functions as a dark mirror of Jewish Israeli society.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"45 1","pages":"112 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84326706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"World Reduction in Contemporary Israeli Film and TV","authors":"O. Nir","doi":"10.1353/jfn.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jfn.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:I argue that many contemporary Israeli films and TV shows imagine an operation of \"world reduction\"—an entry into social spaces that entails neutralizing social forces. The article gives three examples for this operation: in the TV show Fauda and in the films In Between and The Band's Visit. I argue that the resulting juxtaposition of different social spaces in each film or TV show is an allegory of the coexistence of different social forms under Israeli capitalism: welfare state, neoliberalism, and absolute precarity. For example, I argue that traditional Arab-Israeli social spaces stand for the welfare state in In Between, while Tel Aviv allegorizes neoliberal social form. The article argues that these three forms coexist in Israel, as a result of the uneven neoliberalization of Israel/Palestine. By indirectly imagining these spaces, the films and TV shows try to unconsciously imagine the overcoming of their antagonisms and this of capitalism itself.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"51 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89801947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a Jewish Religious Realism in Israeli Cinema","authors":"Yaron Peleg","doi":"10.17863/CAM.75895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.75895","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The article examines changes in the relationship between film and religion in contemporary Israeli cinema by looking at three films that exemplify these changes, Ushpizin (Gidi Dar, 2004), The Wedding Plan (Rama Burshtein, 2016), and Tikkun (Avishai Sivan, 2015). As a pioneering religious film, Ushpizin introduced two cinematic elements that were developed by subsequent Israeli films dealing with religion or faith. The first element draws its inspiration from the romantic comedy genre and is visible in The Wedding Plan, a romantic comedy that demonstrates the partiality of Israeli religious cinema to a genre that has been marginal in local cinema until recently. The second element explores the power of cinema to convey transcendent, spiritual, or meditative sensibilities in Tikkun, an arthouse film that begins to articulate a new cinematic vocabulary of Jewish religious sensibilities.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"60 1","pages":"76 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76499454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fauda: Realism in the Time of Israeli Late Capitalism","authors":"Eran Kaplan","doi":"10.1353/jfn.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jfn.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Fauda, the Israeli TV show that follows a unit of mista'arvim, undercover Israeli operatives who assimilate among the Palestinian population in the West Bank, has been an international hit on Netflix. The show has generated a lot of analysis in the popular press and among scholars, much of it focusing on how it represents Jews and Arabs and whether it offers a fair description of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article examines the battlefield in which the Israeli agents and their Palestinian counterparts operate not as a site of contesting identities but as a place where brute, physical violence meets advanced cyber technologies as a reflection of the place of modern surveillance technologies in the neoliberal world order.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"28 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81854775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Israel on the Screen: Between Reality and Fantasy","authors":"Yaron Peleg, Eran Kaplan","doi":"10.1353/jfn.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jfn.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"80 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88587341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Gergely's Hungarian Film 1929–1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism, and Popular Cinema","authors":"D. Frey","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.2.0252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.2.0252","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"16 1","pages":"252 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75828481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sophie's Voice? Dark Intertexts of The BFG","authors":"Kate Marrison, N. Morris","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.2.0119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.2.0119","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article locates Steven Spielberg's adaptation of The BFG in a growing corpus of children's Holocaust films. Omissions and additions, which reflect the filmmaker's practice generally, render Roald Dahl's nonsensical whimsy deeply challenging. Drawing on psychoanalysis, this interpretation exposes dark intertexts that point to the Holocaust as a cultural trauma that continues to haunt creative works. Spielberg has already proven his knowledge of and growing interest in the historiography of the Holocaust. While auteurist assumptions underpin the argument, it also looks beyond Spielberg's filmography to demonstrate how The BFG draws on memory, folklore, literature, and a history of filmmaking and interpretation. These entanglements, intertexts, and associations are neither necessarily all conscious choices nor recognized by the audience. Instead, they rest within the narrative, creating a tone that challenges the family adventure film. This reading of The BFG, rewritten with an interpretive master code that concerns modernity's \"gravest moment,\" perhaps helps explain the film's otherwise surprisingly poor box office receipts.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"48 1","pages":"119 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72714299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}