The politics of loss and trauma in contemporary Israeli cinema
By: Raz Yosef
Series: Routledge advances in film studies -- 9
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780415876889
Subjects: Psychic trauma in motion pictures; Motion pictures and the conflict; Suffering in motion pictures; Nationalism in motion pictures; War films; History and criticism; Arab-Israeli conflict
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-195) and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Specters of war. Ruptures of history : trauma, memory and the archive in Beaufort; title: Spectacles of pain : war, trauma and male masochism in Kippur; title: Trauma and ethnicity. Restaging the primal scene : melancholia and ethnicity in Cinema Egypt and Desperado Square; title: Recycled wounds : trauma, gender and ethnicity in Or, my treasure; title: Sexuality and loss. The national closet : trauma, loss and sex in Yossi and Jagger; title: Phantasmatic losses : national traumas, masculinity and the primal fantasy in Walk on water; title: Trauma and ethics. The identity of the victim : trauma and responsibility in Beaufort, Lebanon, Waltz with Bashir and Forgiveness.