CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1. The Nation Imagined on Film -- 1. Filming the Homeland: Cinema in Eretz Israel and the Zionist Movement, 1917-1939 (Ariel L. Feldestein) -- 2. Helmar Lerski in Israel (Jan-Christopher Horak) -- 3. Ecce Homo: The Transfiguration of Israeli Manhood in Israeli Films (Yaron Peleg) -- PART II. War and Its Aftermath -- 4. From Hill to Hill: A Brief History of the Representation of War in Israeli Cinema (Uri S. Cohen) -- 5. From Hero to Victim: The Changing Image of the Soldier on the Israeli Screen (Eran Kaplan) -- 6. The Lady and the Death Mask (Judd Neʼeman) -- 7. Coping with the Legacy of Death: The War Widow in Israeli Films (Yael Zerubavel) -- 8. The Privatization of War Memory in Recent Israeli Cinema (Yael Munk) -- PART III. An Ethno-Cultural Kaleidoscope -- 9. Disjointed Narratives in Contemporary Israeli Films (Nitzan Ben Shaul) -- 10. Trajectories of Mizrahi Cinema (Yaron Shemer) -- 11. Immigrant Cinema: Russian Israelis on Screens and behind the Cameras (Olga Gershenson) -- PART IV. Holocaust and Trauma -- 12. The Holocaust in Israeli Cinema as a Conflict between Survival and Morality (Ilan Avisar) -- 13. Near and Far: The Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Feature Films (Liat Steir-Livny) -- 14. Homonational Desires: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Trauma in the Cinema of Eytan Fox (Raz Yosef) -- PART V. Jewish Orthodoxy Revisited -- 15. Negotiating Judaism in Contemporary Israeli Cinema: The Spiritual Style of My Father, My Lord (Dan Chyutin) -- 16. Seeking the Local, Engaging the Global: Women and Religious Oppression in a Minor Film (Nava Dushi) -- 17. Beaufort and My Father, My Lord: Traces of the Binding Myth and the Mother's Voice (Anat Zanger) -- PART VI. Filming the Palestinian Other.

18. The Foreigner Within and the Question of Identity in Fictitious Marriage and Streets of Yesterday (Sandra Meiri) -- 19. A Rave against the Occupation? Speaking for the Self and Excluding the Other in Contemporary Israeli Political Cinema (Dorit Naaman) -- 20. Borders in Motion: The Evolution of the Portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Contemporary Israeli Cinema (Yael Ben-Zvi -Morad) -- 21. Smashing Up the Face of History: Trauma and Subversion in Kedma and Atash (Nurith Getz and Gal Hermoni) -- PART VII. New Cinematic Discourses -- 22. Discursive Identities in the (R)evolution of the New Israeli Queer Cinema (Gilad Padva) -- 23. Kibbutz Films in Transition: From Morality to Ethics (Eldad Kedem) -- 24. The End of a World, the Beginning of a New World: The New Discourse of Authenticity and New Versions of Collective Memory in Israeli Cinema (Miri Talmon) -- Contributors -- Index.