10939 Israeli Cinema at the Turn of the Millennium 1

Credits: 6 advanced credits in Film Studies

Prerequisites: 36 credits, including Understanding Movies: Introduction to the Art of Cinema and Israeli Fiction and Cinema. Students must also fulfill all English requirements and take bibliographic instruction in the Library.

Author: Yael Munk. The materials include a collection of articles.

The course discusses Israeli feature films produced during the last decade of the 20th century, a dramatic decade that began with the end of the first intifada and ended with the first days of the second intifada, known as the al-Aqsa intifada. Interestingly, during those years, Israeli cinema chose to distance itself from political issues and instead investigated personal identity and place. The course offers a critical reading of the main feature films of the period.

Films: Eddie King (Gidi Dar, 1992), Aya: An Imagined Autobiography (Michal Bat-Adam, 1994), Devarim (Amos Gitai, 1995), Drix's Brother (Ori Inbar & Doron Tsabari, 1994), Yana's Friends (Arik Kaplun, 1999), Life According to Agfa (Assi Dayan, 1992), The Distance (Dan Wolman, 1994), Lovesick on Nana Street (Shabi Gabizon, 1995), Leylasede (Shemi Zarhin, 1995), Under Western Eyes (Joseph Pitchadze, 1996), Mr. Baum (Assi Dayan, 1997), Fictitious Marriage (Haim Bouzaglo, 1988), Look Out (Dina Zvi-Riklis, 1990), Saint Clara (Ari Folman & Uri Sivan, 1996), Sh'chur (Shmuel Hasfari, 1994), Electric Blanket (Assi Dayan, 1994).

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1Students may write a seminar paper in this course although it is not required.