JWST 42 Film, Fiction and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

This course explores Israeli cinema in the context of the social and historical backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the painful emergence of a new Jewish-Israeli identity in the shadow of the Holocaust and constant warfare. We will study a dozen films in depth, situate them in the evolution of an Israeli cinema, and consider the problems of turning fiction into film.

Cross Listed Courses

MES 15.10

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:LIT; WCult:CI

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