The politics of loss and trauma in contemporary Israeli cinema /
Raz Yosef.
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- xii, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge advances in film studies ; 9. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-195) and index. Includes filmography.
Introduction -- Specters of war. Ruptures of history : trauma, memory and the archive in Beaufort -- Spectacles of pain : war, trauma and male masochism in Kippur -- Trauma and ethnicity. Restaging the primal scene : melancholia and ethnicity in Cinema Egypt and Desperado Square -- Recycled wounds : trauma, gender and ethnicity in Or, my treasure -- Sexuality and loss. The national closet : trauma, loss and sex in Yossi and Jagger -- Phantasmatic losses : national traumas, masculinity and the primal fantasy in Walk on water -- Trauma and ethics. The identity of the victim : trauma and responsibility in Beaufort, Lebanon, Waltz with Bashir and Forgiveness.
War films--History and criticism.--Israel Arab-Israeli conflict--Motion pictures and the conflict. Psychic trauma in motion pictures. Suffering in motion pictures. Nationalism in motion pictures.