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Constructing Space, Changing Reality of Israel through Film

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dc.creatorRadovic, Milja
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-17T17:11:42Z
dc.date.available2023-05-17T17:11:42Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the ways in which filmmakers through cinematic space frame reality, mediating the issues of conflict and reconciliation, religion and identity(ies) within Israel. Cinematic space depicts and expresses borders through elements of film language, such as mise-en-scène, montage and the disruption of temporal reality. By (re) framing meanings cinema questions existing socio-political realities, and their impact on the individual or whole communities. The microcosmic realities which constitute different communities within Israel’s wider socio-political reality are built and confronted through the cinematic space. The cinema thus becomes a site through which existing realities are reflected and new realities are constructed, opening up possibilities for transformation. In other words, how film frames an ‘alternative reality(ies)’ is a question related to the construction of space, which will be addressed in this paper. The paper focuses on two films: WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER (Amos Gitai, 2017) and GEULA (Joseph Madmony, Boaz Yehonatan Yacov, 2018). I juxtapose these two diametrically different films in order to assess the ways in which the cinematic space functions as a direct site for negotiating the identities, religious belonging, and the different communities’ relation to the geographical space of Israel. The analysis of these two films aims to ‘sharpen the focus’ on cinematic space as a continuum in which such complex realities are expressed, renegotiated, and transformed.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.4:2019.1.7
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19493
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/144
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20684
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
dc.subjectConstructing Spaceen
dc.subjectChanging Realityen
dc.subjectIsraelen
dc.subjectFilmen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleConstructing Space, Changing Reality of Israel through Filmen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-17T19:29:45
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/144
local.source.epage123
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleUnderstanding Jesus in the Early Modern Period and Beyond. Across Text and Other Media
local.source.spage105
local.source.volume5

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