Olga Gershenson

New Israeli Horror

Local Cinema, Global Genre

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell their story. Through in-depth analysis, engaging storytelling, and interviews with the filmmakers, Olga Gershenson explores their films from inception to reception.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978837850
• ISBN-10: 1978837852
• Artikelnr.: 68490059

Autorenporträt

OLGA 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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
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
Index