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From:Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues (Issue 25) Peer-ReviewedWithin the frame of feminist theory, this paper analyzes the efforts of two Israeli filmmakers to disclose women's perceptual struggle: against gendered imperatives that encourage women not to look; against the habit of...
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From:Shofar (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Cinema, a visual art, is meant to show what is hidden." (Judd Ne'eman, Haifa Film Festival, 2006) In 2009, forty years after his first film appeared, the State of Israel awarded the Israel Prize for Cinema to...
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From: Midstream[(essay date May-June 2005) In this essay, Burstein hails Heir to the Glimmering World as a new, insightful, and appealing novel.] Long ago I learned that every new book comes to us like a fresh leaf on a very, very...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Burstein contends that gender identification is a critical factor in the romantic relationships of Malamud's male protagonists in A New Life,God's Grace,The Natural, and Dubin's...
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From:Studies in American Jewish Literature (Vol. 29) Peer-ReviewedEvery age has its official preachers and prophets who castigate its vices and call to a better life. Yet it is not by them that its deepest malaise is revealed, but in the artists and thinkers dedicated to the more...
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From:Shofar (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In many Israeli films, mothers play conventional supporting roles. But several critically important films made between the 1970s and the first decade of the new century become culturally reflexive as they...