Israeli cinema is a central tool for understanding the contemporary challenges facing Israeli society as it has developed its identity during the past decades. Although films can be considered individual pieces of work, we can gain a unique perspective on the nation's society through a careful analysis of the subject matter, issues, and styles of expression of this unique medium. Since its inception, Israeli cinema has been occupied with the hardships of an ongoing war, problems of Jewish-Arab relations, and the major survival issues of the state.
Despite this focus, Israeli filmmaking is in fact much more complex and varied. Indeed, it covers a wide spectrum of issues that have developed during the 70 years during the production of its first feature film. Israeli Film: A Reference Guide provides a survey of all major films made in Israel, as well as biographies of major Israeli filmmakers and an overview essay summarizing major trends in Israeli film―and, in doing so, offers a commentary on social trends, historical challenges, and societal issues.

Israeli Film: A Reference Guide (Reference Guides to the World's Cinema)

Humor & Entertainment

Kronish, Amy

Safirman, Costel

Movies

Praeger

Newly updated to include analysis of internationally acclaimed films produced up to 2010! This book provides a fascinating account of film-making in Israel, from the early pioneering newsreels and documentaries to the bold work of contemporary feature directors such as Uri Barbash, Michal Bat-Adam, Moshe Mizrahi and Dan Wolman, and controversial documentarists such as Amos Gitai and Ram Loevy. The book offers an analysis of Israeli film as a reflection of both social issues and cultural development, and chronicles the evolution of the film industry in a small and new country besieged by serious internal and external conflicts. Zionism, the period of the British Mandate in Palestine and the establishment of the State of Israel, the relationship between Arab and Jew, the cinema's extended preoccupation with war and its aftermath, and the representation of women, are all closely discussed.

World Cinema: Israel

UNKNO

Highlighting rising women directors alongside ground-breaking pioneers, this is a one-stop guide to the leading women film directors in the 21st century, and those who inspired them. This collection of essays, by an impressive array of international writers, examines the progress of women film directors around the world, and arrives at some surprising conclusions. From the blockbusters of the Hollywood studios to emerging voices from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Laos, we learn of women making films in traditionally male-dominated areas such as action, fantasy and horror. With wide-ranging contributions from countries with mature and nascent film industries, Celluloid Ceiling demonstrates that economic and technological changes are creating new opportunities for women film directors everywhere. With contributions from Africa, Latin America, Europe, USA, Asia and India, chapters on new voices in Japanese and Middle Eastern cinema, the book also covers women directors working in TV, and reminds us of the first woman director, Frenchwoman, Alice Guy Blaché. Exploring the rise of the independent film sector including the horror aficionados the Soska Sisters, Celluloid Ceiling asks whether economic and technological change will work to the advantage of women in film. Celluloid Ceiling follows in the footsteps of Supernova’s Women Make Noise, which lifted the lid on the widespread and destructive misogyny that still plagues the rock music world.

Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through

Biographies & Memoirs

Iordanova, Dina

Ellerson, Beti

Hawkins, Maria Williams

Oughton, Karen

Bahiana, Ana Maria

Miller, Jacqui

Shaw, Nathan

Risio, Patricia Di

Chaiworaporn, Anchalee

Aquilia, Pieter

Kripalani, Coonoor

Bingham, Adam

Bilal, Iram Parveen

Field, Tania

Honeycutt, Heidi

Lewis, Karlanna

Bridges, Melody

Doyle, Ronan

Shakerifar, Elhum

Arts & Literature

Aurora Metro Press

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