Yael Munk
Dr. Yael Munk is a senior lecturer at the Open University, Israel. She has published two books at the Open University Press - Exiled in their Borders: Israeli Cinema between two Intifadah (2012) and Looking Back: A Revised History of Israeli Cinema 1948-1990 (2014), and is currently co-editing Fiktzia: An anthology of Israeli Television Drama. forthcoming volume on Israeli Television Drama. Her tesearch is engaged with Israeli and Palestinian cinemas, Holocaust studies, postcolonial theory, women‘s documentary, and gender studies in general and has published various articles on these issues in English, French and German.
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soldiers in Israeli cinema, from the traditional stereotypes of the
early years to the response of young Israeli women filmmakers in
the 2000s to the gender inequality and violence that is an integral
part of any military systems. After a survey of the traditional representations of women soldiers and the minor roles they played in
early Israeli cinema, we discuss two films by Israeli women filmmakers—
Vardit Bilu and Dalia Hager’s fiction film Close to Home
(2005) and Tamar Yaron’s documentary To See if I’m Smiling (2007)
—which depict the challenges faced by young women who join the
IDF aspiring to equal military service. Both films explore the inherent
gender bias they encounter and the inevitable moral decline of
women soldiers as they are plunged into the violent reality of
military occupation.
4, Summer 2006, pp. 130-143 (Article)
Published by Purdue University Press
DOI:
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https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2006.0102
soldiers in Israeli cinema, from the traditional stereotypes of the
early years to the response of young Israeli women filmmakers in
the 2000s to the gender inequality and violence that is an integral
part of any military systems. After a survey of the traditional representations of women soldiers and the minor roles they played in
early Israeli cinema, we discuss two films by Israeli women filmmakers—
Vardit Bilu and Dalia Hager’s fiction film Close to Home
(2005) and Tamar Yaron’s documentary To See if I’m Smiling (2007)
—which depict the challenges faced by young women who join the
IDF aspiring to equal military service. Both films explore the inherent
gender bias they encounter and the inevitable moral decline of
women soldiers as they are plunged into the violent reality of
military occupation.
4, Summer 2006, pp. 130-143 (Article)
Published by Purdue University Press
DOI:
For additional information about this article
[ Access provided at 16 Apr 2020 18:39 GMT from Tel Aviv University ]
https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2006.0102