Imagining the kibbutz visions of utopia in literature and film / Ranen Omer-Sherman.

Author/creator Omer-Sherman, Ranen
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
Description342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesDimyonot: Jews and cultural imagination, 2
Contents Trepidation and exultation in early kibbutz fiction -- "With a zealot's fervor" : individuals facing the fissures of ideology in Oz, Shaham, and Balaban -- The kibbutz and its others at midcentury : Palestinian and Mizrahi interlopers in utopia -- Late disillusionments and village crimes : the kibbutz mysteries of Batya Gur and Savyon Liebrecht -- From the 1980s to 2010 : nostalgia and the revisionist lens in Kibbutz film.
Abstract "An exploration of the literary and cinematic representations of the kibbutz movement in Israel. Authors discussed include Amos Oz, Savyon Liebrecht, Nathan Shaham, Avraham Balaban, Atallah Mansour, Eli Amir, and Batya Gur. Directors discussed include Yitzhak Yeshurun, Akiva Tevet, Dror Shaul, and Jonathan Paz"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 323-333) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014045413
ISBN9780271065571 (cloth : alk. paper)

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