Israeli Television: Global Contexts, Local Visions

This anthology explores Israeli television's representation, audiences, and production processes, examining its local and global dynamics. It sheds light on themes such as history, memory, war, trauma, Zionism, national disillusionment, place, home, ethnicity, gender, religion, and secularism, providing a comprehensive resource for readers interested in media and television studies, cultural studies, Israel, and the Middle East.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 322 pages
\n Publication date: 25 September 2020
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This comprehensive anthology delves into the intricate world of Israeli television, exploring its diverse forms of representation, audiences, and production processes across both the past and present. By examining Israeli television within its local and cultural dynamics, as well as its global interfaces, the book offers a profound understanding of this medium's role in shaping Israeli society and culture.

The book explores Israeli television as a creator, negotiator, guardian, and warden of collective Israeli memory. It examines instances of Israeli original television that have been exported and circulated to the US and global markets, as well as instances of American, British, and global TV formats that have been adapted and translated to the Israeli scene and screen. The trajectory of this volume is to shed light on the major themes and issues that Israeli television negotiates, including history and memory, war and trauma, Zionism and national disillusionment, place and home, ethnicity in its unique local variations of Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia, Israeli-Arabs and Palestinians, gender in its unique Israeli formations, specifically masculinity as shaped by the military and constant violent conflict, femininity in this same context as well as within a complex Jewish-oriented society, religion, and secularism.

Providing multifaceted portraits of Israeli television and culture in its Middle Eastern political and local context, this book serves as a valuable resource for readers interested in media and television studies, cultural studies, Israel, and the Middle East. It offers a comprehensive exploration of Israeli television's past, present, and potential future, contributing to our understanding of this dynamic medium and its impact on global media and cultural landscapes.

\n Weight: 646g\n
Dimension: 162 x 241 x 25 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367470333\n \n