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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Olga GershensonPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781978837850ISBN 10: 1978837852 Pages: 234 Publication Date: 16 April 2024 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Precursors: From The Angel Was a Devil to Frozen Days Part I Subversion 2 The First Hebrew Horror: Rabies 3 A Korean Revenge Thriller in the Israeli Countryside: Big Bad Wolves Part II Conversion 4 Horror in the IDF Zombies in the Fatigues: Poisoned and Cannon Fodder Freak Out: “The Final Boy” on the Base The Specters of Violence in The Damned 5 The Jewish Supernatural: JeruZalem 6 Slasher on the Kibbutz: Children of the Fall Part III Aversion 7 Escaping Israel: Another World, Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club, and The Golem Coda: Is There I-Horror? Notes IndexReviews"""New Israeli Horror is the definitive study of Israeli cinema's most unorthodox genre from its inception among a small group of students at Tel Aviv University to its success on the international film festival circuit and in online piracy in the Arab world. Through an examination of technology, financing, transnational adaptation, local and international reception, and interviews with filmmakers it deciphers the meanings behind the throng of serial killers in uniform, Palestinian ghosts, zombies, cannibals, and monsters from Jewish folklore that have invaded Israeli screens in this millennium."" --Boaz Hagin ""Chair of Graduate Film Studies, Tel Aviv University""" "“This significant work charts the ways in which New Israeli Horror films offer a critique of the violence that lies at the heart of Israeli society, the damaging masculinity of the military machine, and the suppression of Palestinian trauma. The result is a hugely readable and subtly nuanced work that makes a substantive contribution to our understanding of both modern Israel and the horror genre’s ability to articulate national trauma. It’s essential reading for all with an interest in the genre and in national cinema more broadly.” -- Linnie Blake * Manchester Metropolitan University and author of The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Tr * “This is a fantastic book that looks at the intellectual, industrial, funding, and reception contexts of Israeli horror but without bouncing between them like demented pinball. Instead, what we get is an extraordinarily integrated interdisciplinary account that should operate as an exemplar for horror scholarship for decades to come!” -- Mark Jancovich * author of Horror and editor of Horror, The Film Reader * ""New Israeli Horror is the definitive study of Israeli cinema’s most unorthodox genre from its inception among a small group of students at Tel Aviv University to its success on the international film festival circuit and in online piracy in the Arab world. Through an examination of technology, financing, transnational adaptation, local and international reception, and interviews with filmmakers it deciphers the meanings behind the throng of serial killers in uniform, Palestinian ghosts, zombies, cannibals, and monsters from Jewish folklore that have invaded Israeli screens in this millennium."" -- Boaz Hagin * co-editor of Deeper Than Oblivion: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema * “New Israeli Horror perceptively chronicles the origins and evolution of Israeli horror films. It brilliantly analyzes how this corpus of films replicated or subverted the familiar tropes of the horror genre and demonstrates that they possess implicit and eventually explicit relevance to the political and social conflicts within Israel.” -- Lawrence Baron * author of Projecting The Holocaust Into The Present and editor of The Modern Jewish Experience in Wo *" """New Israeli Horror is the definitive study of Israeli cinema's most unorthodox genre from its inception among a small group of students at Tel Aviv University to its success on the international film festival circuit and in online piracy in the Arab world. Through an examination of technology, financing, transnational adaptation, local and international reception, and interviews with filmmakers it deciphers the meanings behind the throng of serial killers in uniform, Palestinian ghosts, zombies, cannibals, and monsters from Jewish folklore that have invaded Israeli screens in this millennium."" --Boaz Hagin ""co-editor of Deeper Than Oblivion: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema""" Author InformationOLGA GERSHENSON is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and of Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe and Gesher: Russian Theater in Israel, and editor of Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender. To learn more about her work, see www.people.umass.edu/olga Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |