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 national identity, the industry and its transnational ties became more important as filmmakers and film stars migrated out and foreign films, filmmakers, and actors came to Israel to take advantage of high-quality production values and talent. This volume, edited by Rachel Harris and Dan Chyutin, uses the idea of transnationalism to challenge the concept of a singular definition of Israeli cinema.
Casting a Giant Shadow offers a new understanding of how cinema has operated artistically and structurally in terms of funding, distribution, and reception. The result is a thorough investigation of the complex structure of the transnational and its impact on national specificity when considered on the global stage.
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.
Recenzijos
"Casting a Giant Shadow provides, in anthology form, an excellent encyclopedic overview of how Israeli cinemafrom its earliest dayshas had transnational elements along with those that are specific to its national history and sensibilityaddressing this broad topic in myriad imaginative ways. Clear and well-written, it is a major contribution to film studies."Lucy Fischer, Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh
"Casting a Giant Shadow will make you see Israeli films in an entirely new light. This new collection puts Israeli cinema squarely on a map of global markets and influences, from Cannon Films to K-cinema, from Westerns to New Extremism. This important book reflects shift towards the transnational in film studies."Olga Gershenson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Winner of Janovics Center Best Book 2022 (Romania).
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| Israeli Cinema Beyond the National: An Introduction |
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I My Israel: Transnational Imagining in a Time of High Nationalism |
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1 "I Have a Great Passion for Americans": The Juggler and the Question of National Cinema |
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2 Longing for Hollywood: Israeli Beauties on International Film Stages in the 1950s and 1960s |
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3 New Frontiers: Creating a Nation through the Israeli Western |
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4 The Rust of Time: The Apparition of Memory in David Greenberg's Sha'ar Ha'guy (1965) and Much'shar Bli Rosh (1963) |
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II Palestinian Cinema "Made in Israel" |
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5 Transnational Imaginings in Salt of This Sea (2008) and Villa Touma (2014) |
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6 Here and There, Now and Then: Nations and Their Relations in Recent Palestinian Cinema |
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7 Five Broken Cameras and the Metonymic Sixth Camera: Time, Narrative, and Subjectivities in Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi's 5 Broken Cameras |
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III To See with Foreign Eyes: Catering to the Expectations of a Transnational Audience |
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8 Moments of Innocence and Fracture: Fantasy and Reality in Two Documentary Visits to Israel |
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9 Two Israelis in the "Mecca of Motion Pictures": Golan, Globus, and Cannon Film's Transnational Enterprise |
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10 "A Chance to Hear Some Hebrew": American Jewish Film Festivals and the Transnational Flow of Israeli Film |
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230 | (22) |
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11 Perpetuating Victimhood as a Jewish Identity?: The Case of Popular Israeli Cinema Today |
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IV Denationalizing the Local and Projecting into the Global: Disrupting Israeliness through the Transnational |
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12 Of National Homes and Despotic Symbols: Network Narrative Films, Global Cities, and Crossings of Local Paths |
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273 | (19) |
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13 Fantasies of Other Desires: Homonationalism and Self-Othering in Contemporary Israeli Queer Cinema |
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292 | (24) |
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14 Hagar Ben-Asher's The Slut as the First Israeli Transnational Feminist Film Text |
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V Bringing the Global into the Local: Transnational Encounters in Contemporary Narrative and Form |
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15 Encounters and Interspaces: The Place of Germany and Germans in Israeli Cinema |
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16 Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Rise of Israel's New Extremism |
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357 | (18) |
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17 The Exchange: Reinventing Israeliness through Koreanness |
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| List of Contributors |
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Rachel S. Harris is Associate Professor of Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema and An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature.
Dan Chyutin is a Teaching Fellow at Tel Aviv University's Steve Tisch School of Film and TV and University of Haifa's MA Program in Film Culture. He has essays published or forthcoming in such peer-reviewed publications as Cinema Journal, Shofar, Journal of Film and Video, Jewish Film & New Media, Short Film Studies, and Journal of Jewish Identities.
