Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction ; The nation imagined on film. Filming the homeland: cinema in Eretz Israel and the Zionist movement, 1917-1939 , Helmar Lerski in Israel , Ecce Homo: The Transfiguration of Israeli Manhood in Israeli Films , War and Its Aftermath. From Hill to Hill: A Brief History of the Representation of War in Israeli Cinema , From Hero to Victim: The Changing Image of the Soldier on the Israeli Screen , The Lady and the Death Mask , Coping with the Legacy of Death: The War Widow in Israeli Films , The Privatization of War Memory in Recent Israeli Cinema , An Ethno-Cultural Kaleidoscope. Disjointed Narratives in Contemporary Israeli Films , Trajectories of Mizrahi Cinema , Immigrant Cinema: Russian Israelis on Screens and behind the Cameras , Holocaust and Trauma. The Holocaust in Israeli Cinema as a Conflict between Survival and Morality , Near and Far: The Representation of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Feature Films, 1945-2010 , Homonational Desires: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Cinema of Eytan Fox , Jewish Orthodoxy Revisited. Negotiating Judaism in Contemporary Israeli Cinema: The Spiritual Style of My Father, My Lord , Seeking the Local, Engaging the Global: Women and Religious Oppression in a Minor Film , Beaufort and My Father, My Lord: Traces of the Binding Myth and the Mother's Voice , Filming the Palestinian Other. The Foreigner Within and the Question of Identity in Fictitious Marriage and Streets of Yesterday ; / sandra meiri ; a rave against the occupation?: speaking for the self and excluding the other in contemporary israeli political cinema , Borders in Motion: The Evolution of the Portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Contemporary Israeli Cinema , Smashing Up the Face of History: Trauma and Subversion in Kedma and Atash , New Cinematic Discourses. Discursive Identities in the (R)evolution of the New Israeli Queer Cinema , Kibbutz Films in Transition: From Morality to Ethics , The End of a World, the Beginning of a New World: The New Discourse of Authenticity and New Versions of Collective Memory in Israeli Cinema