{"title":"On Haltof's Screening Auschwitz","authors":"M. Oleszczyk","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"104 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78306747","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 Harris's Warriors, Witches, Whores","authors":"Karen E. H. Skinazi","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"45 1","pages":"108 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76609926","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":"Decoding the Documentary \"Secrets of Kabbalah\": On Jewish Esoteric History and Pop Culture","authors":"B. Ogren","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a popular rise of interest in the Jewish esoteric lore known as Kabbalah. Celebrity interest spurred a backlash against New Age trends and a revisitation of the traditional role of Kabbalah in Jewish history. In 2006, the episode \"Secrets of Kabbalah\" aired on the History Channel's popular paranormal series Decoding the Past. This article analyzes \"Secrets of Kabbalah\" in light of Jewish history and the New Age. It argues that the film uses a crisical, lachrymose conception of Jewish history to set up a dichotomy between traditional Jewish Kabbalah and the New Age. That is to say, the film bases itself on a history of crises and tears. The article further argues that the episode contains coded messages of critique against New Age developments in Kabbalah, thereby becoming a quasi-kabbalistic text itself. Finally, the article argues that in a postmodern turn, \"Secrets of Kabbalah\" becomes a part of the very pop-Kabbalah phenomenon that it sets out to critique through its usage of a history of Jewish crises.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"1 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79887393","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":"National Fears in Israeli Horror Films","authors":"Ido Rosen","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0077","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Violence, wounds, blood, and death are common sights in the battlefield, which has been a favored setting for Israeli cinema from its outset. Local films, however, were not eager to linger over these corporeal horrors and were reluctant to expose the fragmented body and corpse. This has gradually changed, and these days it seems that Israeli cinema is as attracted to explicit images of graphic death as it is repulsed by them. The narratives have also changed, becoming more ideologically ambiguous, and therefore have been criticized by both sides of the political map. These shifts, which have been apparent in the dominant war genre, have permeated into other genres as well and have enabled the materialization of new forms. The death anxiety has been amplified in a wave of horror films that came out in the 2010s. They are harshly critical, and the monstrous enemies in them are internal. They attempt to address and solve problems that the creators of the war films were not fully capable of resolving. Their new style and content enable to deal with national historical traumas, as the casualties of war, and allow them to \"reopen old wounds\" in a manner that had not been attempted by Israeli filmmakers before.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"63 1","pages":"103 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74114242","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 Skorin-Kapov's Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope and Laine's Bodies in Pain: Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky","authors":"B. Franz","doi":"10.1353/jfn.2020.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jfn.2020.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"126 1","pages":"114 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89175354","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 Shandler's Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age","authors":"Shaina Hammerman","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"117 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82129431","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":"Representations of Refuseniks and Soviet Jewish Emigration in GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling","authors":"Thaïs Miller","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.1.0048","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch's Netflix series, GLOW (2017–), reimagines the production of GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (1986–1989), the first US professional wrestling show with an all-female cast. The Netflix series can be understood as historiographic metafiction: a reimagining of the past that captures a new perspective enlightened by hindsight. In season 1, episode 6, \"This Is One of Those Moments,\" Ruth Wilder (played by Alison Brie) unwittingly attends an unconventional bris thrown by Soviet Jews and refuseniks who have resettled in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Ruth constantly misreads and misinterprets the people and situations around her. Her subsequent misunderstanding is rendered comically and serves as a symbol for postmodern disorientation. Executive producer and guest writer Jenji Kohan incorporates mockery, ridicule, and hyperbole in a display of the self-deprecating, self-critical, and dark elements of Jewish humor in representing the position of refuseniks and Soviet Jewish émigrés in the United States. Engaging with diverse theories on Jewish humor in postmodern television, this article focuses on the relationship between suffering and celebration, intention and reality, and ancient ritual and modernity. This one episode epitomizes how these elements are performed and represented, forcing the audience to question what is genuine and what is forced or fake. Despite the characters' best efforts to attain authenticity, they continue to struggle to understand, belong, and interpret the cultures surrounding them.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"33 1","pages":"48 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83150112","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":"Class Struggle in the Era of Identity Politics: The Revolutionary Modernism of Doron Tzabari","authors":"Yaron Peleg","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.6.2.0226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.6.2.0226","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:From the beginning of its history, the Zionist workers’ society in the Land of Israel was plagued with fundamental ide ntity problems. Chief among them was the tension between the socialist vision of Zionist ideologues and their wish to cast that socialism in a national Jewish mold as well. The blurry lines between socialist ideology and national identity became progressively more apparent as the country matured and developed, especially after the neoliberalization of Israel since the 1990s. One of the most problematic legacies of this tension is the persistent socioeconomic differences between two groups of Israelis, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi, which are often cast in ethnic terms. This article looks at cinematic articulations of this tension and examines the tendency of Israeli culture, which is reflected in films, to relate to the gaps between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim as folklore rather than as social and economic problems. In doing so, many filmmakers in Israel fail to use their art to promote social and political change, as many of them try to do, for instance, with respect to the conflict with the Palestinians. The article describes this phenomenon, examines its nature, and focuses on the social cinema of writer, director, and social activist Doron Tzabari as a notable exception to this dynamic.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"83 1","pages":"226 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88997289","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 Ross's Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America","authors":"V. Brook","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.6.1.0128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.6.1.0128","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"128 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85658756","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":"Making Peace or Piecemeal? Arnold Wesker's Screenplay and Wolfgang Storch's TV Adaptation of Arthur Koestler's Thieves in the Night","authors":"A. Stähler","doi":"10.13110/JEWIFILMNEWMEDI.6.1.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/JEWIFILMNEWMEDI.6.1.0028","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:From 1983 to 1985 the British Jewish playwright Arnold Wesker worked on a film script for a German-Israeli TV adaptation of Arthur Koestler's propagandistic novel Thieves in the Night (1946), which chronicles a decisive phase in the triangular conflict among Arabs, Jews, and the British during the British Mandate for Palestine. Ultimately, Wesker's script was rejected, but in 1986 the dramatist published an excerpt in the Jewish Chronicle. Drawing on Wesker's original drafts and his correspondence relating to the project, this article contextualizes the publication of the so-called \"Peace Making Ceremony\" with the playwright's approach to his adaptation of the novel as a whole. It is argued that Wesker's main objectives were to preserve the integrity of the novel and to produce a \"script of substance\" that was to offer a historical argument rather than the \"cowboys and Indian version\" expected of him.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"29 1","pages":"28 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78796355","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}