Description: Reimagining the Promised Land : Israel and America in Post-war Hollywood Cinema, Paperback by Wallis, Rodney, ISBN 1501373854, ISBN-13 9781501373855, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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, th offers an informed historical overview of the cultural forces that have contributed to popular understandings within the United States of the state of Israel, Israels Arab neighbours, and also the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Book Title: Reimagining the Promised Land : Israel and America in Post-war Ho
Number of Pages: 242 Pages
Publication Name: Reimagining the Promised Land : Israel and America in Post-War Hollywood Cinema
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: International Relations / General, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Film / History & Criticism
Item Weight: 11.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Performing Arts, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Rodney Wallis
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
