Abstract
One of the most striking phenomena in contemporary Israeli cinema is the number of films that explore repressed traumatic events from the First Lebanon War--events that have been denied entry into the shared national past. This essay analyzes Joseph Cedar's film Beaufort (2007), arguing that the film exposes a traumatic rupture between history and memory. Yet at the same time, Beaufort nostalgically expresses an impossible yearning for lost archival collective national memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 61-83 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Cinema Journal |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- Israel in motion pictures
- Motion pictures & war
- Israeli intervention in Lebanon, 1982-1984
- Lebanon
- Israel
- Cedar, Joseph
- Beaufort (Film)