TY - BOOK AU - Yosef,Raz TI - The politics of loss and trauma in contemporary Israeli cinema T2 - Routledge advances in film studies SN - 9780415876889 (alk. paper) PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - War films KW - Israel KW - History and criticism KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - Motion pictures and the conflict KW - Psychic trauma in motion pictures KW - Suffering in motion pictures KW - Nationalism in motion pictures N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-195) and index; Includes filmography; Introduction -- Specters of war. Ruptures of history : trauma, memory and the archive in Beaufort -- Spectacles of pain : war, trauma and male masochism in Kippur -- Trauma and ethnicity. Restaging the primal scene : melancholia and ethnicity in Cinema Egypt and Desperado Square -- Recycled wounds : trauma, gender and ethnicity in Or, my treasure -- Sexuality and loss. The national closet : trauma, loss and sex in Yossi and Jagger -- Phantasmatic losses : national traumas, masculinity and the primal fantasy in Walk on water -- Trauma and ethics. The identity of the victim : trauma and responsibility in Beaufort, Lebanon, Waltz with Bashir and Forgiveness ER -