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Israeli Bourekas Films
Their Origins and LegacySephardi and Mizrahi Studies
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28,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 03.01.2023 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253063434 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 206 |
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<p>A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In <i>Israeli Bourekas Films</i>, author and filmmaker Rami Kimchi sets out a history of Bourekas films and discusses their origin.</p>
<p>Kimchi considers the representation of Sephardi or Mizrahi Jews in the films, noting that the material culture reflected in the the films presented a culture that was closer to the European Yiddish culture than to the Middle Eastern world of the Mizrahim. Kimchi reflects on the enormous popularity and commercial success of Bourekas films, uncovers how they were made, who made them and why, and discusses the impact of the films on Israeli cinema today. </p>
<p><i>Israeli Bourekas Films</i> is a film insider's view of the characters, stories, and cultures that made Bourekas films such an important part of Israeli life.</p>
<p>Kimchi considers the representation of Sephardi or Mizrahi Jews in the films, noting that the material culture reflected in the the films presented a culture that was closer to the European Yiddish culture than to the Middle Eastern world of the Mizrahim. Kimchi reflects on the enormous popularity and commercial success of Bourekas films, uncovers how they were made, who made them and why, and discusses the impact of the films on Israeli cinema today. </p>
<p><i>Israeli Bourekas Films</i> is a film insider's view of the characters, stories, and cultures that made Bourekas films such an important part of Israeli life.</p>
<p>Preface<br>Acknowledgments<br>Introduction<br>Birth of the Bourekas: <i>Sallah</i> and Its Innovations<br>A Thematic Analysis of Bourekas<br>Mizrahi Self Representation Films<br>Bourekas and Classical Yiddish Literature<br>The Dynamics of Continuity between Two Disparate Cultures<br>Bourekas Legacy: Post-Bourekas and Neo-Bourekas<br>Bibliography<br>Index</p>
<p>Rami Kimchi teaches film and television in the School of Communications at Ariel University, and held guest appointment at University of Michigan and University of California, San Diego. He is an international award-winning filmmaker and a culture critic. He is the author of <i>The Israeli Shtetls: Bourekas Films and Yiddish Classical Literature.</i></p>
<p><i>Israeli Bourekas Films</i> offers much needed analysis of the phenomenon popularly called 'Bourekas films' and how they draw on representations of shtetl life from Yiddish literature.</p>
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