CJS201H1 Lecture Notes - National Collective
Document Summary
Introduction to israeli cinema: the cinema evolved around the same time as israeli nation, cinema was used as a way to ask jews to join the national revolt, 20th century-television wasn"t prominent until to early 90 s. Oded the wanderer-movie: first big picture film-silent, set in the zionist landscape. Baruch agadati-this is the land-movie: combination of other films, full integrated feature film with talking, images of collective settlement; glorified the jewish settlement, emphasized zionist movement. Films of 1949: started favoring the warrior, shifting away from the pioneer, hill 24 doesn"t answer-bloody struggle for jewish independence. Films of the 1960-70"s: films become more normalized, israeli film was expanding its perimeter, feature films had less idealistic plots, eldorado was first in a series of cheaply made box office hits. Ethnic films- showed the lives of new comers to the country. 1973-yom kippur war made this message even more popular.
