Abstract
The article focuses on the Israeli film "Walk on Water," by Eytan Fox, and discusses the trauma of the Holocaust for second-generation Israeli Jews. It mentions that fantasy and the unconscious play a central role in the forming of traumatic Holocaust memories that is not experienced personally. It presents an analysis of the male fantasy that endeavors to restage and repair the traumas that shaped the Israeli heterosexual male subjectivity by displacing them to a phantasmatic scene. It discusses the film in the context of the Zionist desire for a new Jewish masculinity, and mentions that the phantasmatic displacement of the trauma serves the film to reconstruct the Israeli masculinity and to reaffirm and perpetuate Zionist sexual and national norms.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 93-105 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Framework: The Journal of Cinema & Media |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- Holocaust, 1939-1945, in motion pictures
- Memory in motion pictures
- Emotional trauma in motion pictures
- Masculinity in motion pictures
- Jewish men
- Motion pictures
- Israel
- Fox, Eytan
- Walk on Water (Film)