Subjectivity, Institutions and Language in Contemporary Israeli Film

In his article Subjectivity, Institutions and Language in Contemporary Israeli Film Ari Ofengenden analyzes the transnational characteristics of contemporary Israeli films (from 2000 until today). He claims that a new regime of globally networked production and distribution of Israeli film has articulated a specific kind of subjectivity presented in these films. In this article, he will concentrate on two characteristics of this subjectivity: the relations of protagonist with social institutions and use of language. Relations with social institutions starts with the highly prevalent representations of a sensitive and individualist protagonist who suffers under collective and coercive institutions like the army, religious courts, or the kibbutz. The fact that this individual does not really belong to his or her place is signaled by their multilingual use of language. Using western-European languages simultaneously present a certain kind of semi-European subjectivity. Global production, however, has meant the decline of subjectivities that would like to transform rather than strengthen existing institutions, as well as demise of the playful, expanding Hebrew of the 1970\u27s

Agency, Desire, and Power in Schnitzler\u27s Dream Novel and Kubrick\u27s Adaptation Eyes Wide Shut

In his article Agency, Desire, and Power in Schnitzler\u27s Dream Novel and Kubrick\u27s Adaptation Eyes Wide Shut Ari Ofengenden explores Arthur Schnitzler\u27s novella and Stanley Kubrick\u27s adaptation to offer insights into the ways in which desire disrupts and clashes with social structures (i.e., family, relationships, and society in general). Ofengenden shows how the dynamic in which disruptive desire is ideologically narrativized back into acquiescence with the status quo. Ofengenden interprets the narrative of the film as unique intuitions into action and agency where sources of agency are opaque to the subject and arise by an impenetrable combination of desire and power

Introduction: Israeli Critical Reflection After Post-Zionism, or The Opening as Interpretive Horizon

This essay attempts to situate this special issue as an intervention, from a materialist perspective, in the field of Israeli cultural studies. We interrogate the common periodizations of Israeli culture, and its contemporary characterization as “post-post-Zionist.” We try to show that the latter betrays an unacknowledged failure of historical narration, present throughout Israeli cultural production. We then argue that rather than being satisfied with this failure, the goal of Israeli cultural critique today should be to search for new ways to narrate “big” history, to reassert the indispensability of relating personal experience of the present, in all its details, to the making of history. We then explain how each of the contributions to this special issue takes this task upon itself—some more and some less explicitly

männlich und weiblich schuf Er sie

International audienceDieu créa l'Homme, « homme et femme » il les créa. Dans ce volume, des spécialistes des sciences des religions, et des théologiens de huit pays de l'Union européenne analysent la réception de cette idée qui est commune au judaïsme, au christianisme et à l'islam. Les articles proposent une réflexion sur cette idée de création « homme et femme » dans les textes sacrés des trois religions que sont la Bible hébraïque, le Nouveau Testament, le Talmud, le Coran et même la Kabbale. Les principaux thèmes abordés sont le contexte juridique et social de cette affirmation ainsi que les transformations opérées sur le droit matrimonial et/ou la définition de soi en tant qu'homme ou femme