Jewish Film & New Media Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring 2021, Israel on the Screen: Between Reality and Fantasy)

Jewish Film & New Media provides an outlet for research into any aspect of Jewish film, television, and new media and is unique in its interdisciplinary nature, exploring the rich and diverse cultural heritage across the globe. The journal is distinctive in bringing together a range of cinemas, televisions, films, programs, and other digital material in one volume and in its positioning of the discussions within a range of contexts—the cultural, historical, textual, and many others.

Jewish Film & New Media Volume 9 Number 1 (Spring 2021)
SPECIAL ISSUE: Israel on the Screen: Between Reality and Fantasy
Guest Editors: Yaron Peleg and Eran Kaplan

Introduction to the Special Issue
Israel on the Screen: Between Reality and Fantasy
Yaron Peleg and Eran Kaplan

Articles
Exploring the Etiology of a Jewish Homeland: When Claude Lanzmann Visited Israel
Ohad Landesman

Fauda: Realism in the Time of Israeli Late Capitalism
Eran Kaplan

World Reduction in Contemporary Israeli Film and TV
Oded Nir

Toward a Jewish Religious Realism in Israeli Cinema
Yaron Peleg

Juda and the New Jew: Undead Jewish Israeli Identities
Vered Weiss