Imagining the kibbutz : visions of utopia in literature and film /

Omer-Sherman, Ranen,

Imagining the kibbutz : visions of utopia in literature and film / Ranen Omer-Sherman. - University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations. - Dimyonot : Jews and cultural imagination ; volume 2 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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.



9780271070612


Israeli literature--History and criticism.
Kibbutzim in literature.
Kibbutzim in motion pictures.
Kibbutzim--History.


Electronic Books.

PJ5012 / .I434 2015