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  • Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas

    A Brief Romance

    by Yaron Peleg ...
    Over the past two decades, profound changes in Israel opened its society to powerful outside forces and the dominance of global capitalism. As a result, the centrality of Zionism as an organizing ideology waned, prompting expressions of anxiety in Israel about the coming of a post-Zionist age. The fears about the end of Zionism were quelled, however, by the Palestinian uprising in 2000, which ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Directed by God

    Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television

    by Yaron Peleg ...
    As part of its effort to forge a new secular Jewish nation, the nascent Israeli state tried to limit Jewish religiosity. However, with the steady growth of the ultraorthodox community and the expansion of the settler community, Israeli society is becoming increasingly religious. Although the arrival of religious discourse in Israeli politics has long been noticed, its cultural development has ... Read more

    $44.09 CAD

  • Israeli Cinema

    Identities in Motion

    Edited by Miri Talmon, Yaron Peleg ...
    With top billing at many film forums around the world, as well as a string of prestigious prizes, including consecutive nominations for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Israeli films have become one of the most visible and promising cinemas in the first decade of the twenty-first century, an intriguing and vibrant site for the representation of Israeli realities. Yet two decades have passed since the ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • New Directions in Israeli Media

    Film, Television, and Digital Content

    Edited by Yaron Peleg, Eran Kaplan, Ido Rosen ...
    A comprehensive analysis of the major trends and developments in contemporary Israeli media.In the twenty-first century, Israeli filmmaking has transformed from a localized industry into a globally recognized and diverse national cinema, its filmmakers gaining prominence internationally and introducing new themes, aesthetics, and voices to the scene. At the same time, Israeli television shows have ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Casting a Giant Shadow

    The Transnational Shaping of Israeli Cinema

    by Zachary Ingle, Ohad Landesman, Shmulik Duvdevani, Neta Alexander, Joshua Beaty, Nava Dushi, Yael Munk, Yaron Peleg, Ariel M. Sheetrit, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Pablo Utin, Raz Yosef, Boaz Hagin, Mary N. Layoun, Julie Grimmeisen, Yaron Shemer, Anat Dan ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    Film came to the territory that eventually became Israel not long after the medium was born. Casting a Giant Shadow is a collection of articles that embraces the notion of transnationalism to consider the limits of what is "Israeli" within Israeli cinema.As the State of Israel developed, so did its film industries. Moving beyond the early films of the Yishuv, which focused on the creation of ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

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    Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad

    by Richard Landes ...
    Series series Antisemitism in America
    A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeLandes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and ... Read more

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  • Tafsir: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Andrew Rippin ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

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  • Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture

    by Salim Tamari, Mark LeVine ...
    This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The ... Read more

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  • What Does a Jew Want?

    On Binationalism and Other Specters

    by Udi Aloni ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    In the hopes of promoting justice, peace, and solidarity for and with the Palestinian people, Udi Aloni joins with Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler to confront the core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their bold question: Will a new generation of Israelis and Palestinians dare to walk together toward a joint Israel-Palestine? Through a collage of meditation, interview, ... Read more

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  • Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel

    by Yaron Shemer ...
    In Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel, Yaron Shemer presents the most comprehensive and systematic study to date of Mizrahi (Oriental-Jewish or Arab-Jewish) films produced in Israel in the last several decades. Through an analysis of dozens of films the book illustrates how narratives, characters, and space have been employed to give expression to Mizrahi ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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    Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future

    by Gil Z. Hochberg ...
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  • The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema

    by Raz Yosef ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    The last decade has marked the growing visibility and worldwide interest in Israeli cinema. Films such as Walk on Water, Or, My Treasure, Beaufort and Waltz with Bashir have been commercially and critically successful both in Europe and the United States and have won a number of prestigious international awards. This book examines for the first time the new ideological and aesthetic trends in ... Read more

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