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Reimagining the Promised Land
Rodney Wallis
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Israel and America in Post-war Hollywood Cinema
出版Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2020-09-17
主題Performing Arts / Film / History & CriticismHistory / Middle East / Israel & PalestinePolitical Science / International Relations / GeneralPerforming Arts / Film / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Industries / Entertainment
ISBN15013508469781501350849
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FhXxDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋While Israel has seemingly been a minor presence in Hollywood cinema, Reimagining the Promised Land argues that there is a long history of Hollywood deploying images of Israel as a means of articulating an idealized notion of American national identity. This argument is developed through readings of The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (William Wyler, 1959), Exodus (Otto Preminger, 1960), Cast a Giant Shadow (Melville Shavelson, 1966), Black Sunday (John Frankenheimer, 1977), The Delta Force (Menahem Golan, 1986), and Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005). The mobilization of Israel that pervades this eclectic group of films effectively demonstrates one of the more surreptitious ways in which Hollywood has historically constructed and circulated dominant notions of American national identity. Moreover, in examining the most notable Hollywood representations of the Jewish state, the book offers an informed historical overview of the cultural forces that have contributed to popular understandings within the United States of the state of Israel, Israel's Arab neighbours, and also the Arab-Israeli conflict.