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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Communication & Journalism
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof Raya Morag
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday, 1600-1700
Teaching Staff:
Prof Raya Morag
Course/Module description:
The course discusses the New Israeli Cinema: 2008-2018. Issues connected to representation of the trauma of terror, Animated Documentary, Censorship, and twenty-first century changes in style of war will be discussed through analysis of major narrative and documentary works. In addition, documentary literary works will be discussed.
Course/Module aims:
Familiarity with Israeli cinema in the age of the Intifada. Discussion of major ethical issues regarding the conflict emanating from the corpora. Familiarity and understanding of the central models in trauma studies and their application in cinema.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
At the end of this course, students will be capable of independently analyzing Israeli film through discussion of the major ethical issues presented in them and in relevant theoretical models.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Analysis of films and discussion of key research papers.
Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction
2. Israeli cinema:
The persecuted perpetrator: Waltz with Bashir – Ari Folman [2008]
3. Waltz with Bashir continued.
Discussion – Noam Hayut – My Holocaust Thief [2009]
4. The female soldier: To See If I’m Smiling – Tamar Yarom [2007)
5. Continued
6. Cinematic shelter for a murderer? Z32 – Avi Mograbi [2008]
7. Continued. Discussion –
Liran Ran Furer, Checkpoint Syndrome [2003]
8. Palestinian cinema:
Divine Intervention – Elia Suleiman [2009]
9. The New Cinema: Personal Affairs - Maha Haj [2016]
10. Arna’s Children – Juliano Mer-Khamis, Danniel Danniel [2004]
11. The New Israeli Cinema: Foxtrot – Samuel Maoz [2018]
12. Blood relation? Blood Relation – Noa Ben Hagai [2009]
13. Summary
Required Reading:
1. Morag Raya. Waltzing with Bashir: Perpetrator Trauma and Cinema. London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013: 1-32, 211-218.
2. LaCapra, Dominique. Writing History, Writing Trauma. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001: 43-85.
3. Gertz, Nurith, and George Khleifi. Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma, and Memory. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008: 1-73.
4. Morag, Raya. “'Roadblock' Films, 'Children's Resistance' Films and 'Blood Relations' Films: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Post-Intifada II” The Documentary Film Book ed. Brian Winston, London: BFI Palgrave McMillan, 2013: 237-246.
5. Morag, Raya. Editorial: “Radical Contextuality: Major Trends in Israeli Documentary Second Intifada Cinema,” Studies in Documentary Film 6.3 April 2013: 253-272.
6. Ziv, Effi. “Between the Glove and Resistance: The Dialectics of the Shame Mechanism,” Theory and Criticism 32, Spring, Jerusalem: The Van Leer Institute, 2008: 99-128 (Hebrew).
7. Furer, Liron Ron. Checkpoint Syndrome Tel Aviv: Gavanim, 2003: 3-4, 82. (Hebrew)
8. Hayut, Noam. The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust: A Memoir, Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2009: 5, 75-89. (Hebrew).
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 80 %
Assignments 20 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
1. Active participation. Required reading. For lessons 3 and 7 – Required reading of documentary literature in addition to the journal article - nos. 7, 8.
2. Required viewing of 8 films, on the course website.
3. Submission of mid-term paper: (20% of final grade)
Topic of paper: A preparation for the final paper: films' titles, subject, main theses, 4 sources of bibliography list. Explain the contribution of each of the bibliographic sources to the discussion of the claim.
Length of report: Up to two pages (12 point font, double spaced). Submission deadline: Before 10:30 a.m. on 27.5.19. The paper should be turned in before the beginning of the class. No submissions will be accepted after the deadline.
4. Submission of final paper (80% of the final grade): Analysis of an Israeli film and a Palestinian film not discussed in class (please ask me for approval of the films). Bibliographic sources – at least 4 items. Use chapter no. 1 in my book to support your argument. Length of the paper – up to 6-8 pages. (12 point font, double spaced). Deadline for submission: Four weeks after the last class meeting: before 13:00 on 30.7.19, to the Communication Department secretary. The submission must be recorded in the office. Detailed instructions will follow.
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