New Israeli Horror

Local Cinema, Global Genre

Olga Gershenson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

234 Seiten

2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3785-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. 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. She shows how these films challenge traditional representations of Israel and its people, while also appealing to audiences around the world.

Gershenson introduces an innovative conceptual framework of adaptation, which explains how filmmakers adapt global genre tropes to local reality. It illuminates the ways in which Israeli horror borrows and diverges from its international models. New Israeli Horror offers an exciting and original contribution to our understanding of both Israeli cinema and the horror genre.

A companion website to this book is available at https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/ (https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/)

Book trailer: https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw (https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw)

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	14.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	6 color and 3 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-9788-3785-2 / 1978837852
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3785-0 / 9781978837850
Zustand	Neuware