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Author Omer-Sherman, Ranen, author

Title Imagining the kibbutz : visions of utopia in literature and film / Ranen Omer-Sherman
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations
Series Dimyonot : Jews and cultural imagination ; volume 2
Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.) ; v. 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
Summary "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
Analysis Collective Living
Communes
Israel Studies
Israeli Film
Israeli Society
Israeli
Jewish Literature
Jewish Studies
Kibbutz
Literature
Omer-Sherman
Socialism
Utopia
Utopian Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-333) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Israeli literature -- History and criticism
Kibbutzim in literature.
Kibbutzim in motion pictures.
Kibbutzim -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
HISTORY -- Jewish.
Israeli literature
Kibbutzim
Kibbutzim in literature
Kibbutzim in motion pictures
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271070612
0271070617