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Author Omer-Sherman, Ranen, author.

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

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Dimyonot : Jews and cultural imagination ; volume 2
Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.) ; v. 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-333) and index.
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.
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Subject Israeli literature -- History and criticism.
Israeli literature.
Kibbutzim in literature.
Kibbutzim in literature.
Kibbutzim in motion pictures.
Kibbutzim in motion pictures.
Kibbutzim -- History.
Kibbutzim.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Omer-Sherman, Ranen, author. Imagining the kibbutz 9780271065571 (DLC) 2014045413 (OCoLC)898909936
ISBN 9780271070612 electronic book
0271070617 electronic book
9780271065571
0271065575