'Putting your heart on the screen': an ethnography of young filmmakers in Israel
<p><i>Putting Your Heart on the Screen</i> explores a new generation of Israeli filmmakers whose approach to filmmaking is defined by their conviction that they both must and can only make films about their own painful experiences—what they call their ‘heart’ (<i>lev</i>...
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| description | <p><i>Putting Your Heart on the Screen</i> explores a new generation of Israeli filmmakers whose approach to filmmaking is defined by their conviction that they both must and can only make films about their own painful experiences—what they call their ‘heart’ (<i>lev</i>). It introduces a new approach to the complex subjective processes at play within film production via its focus on the intersections between this new genre of personal films and the subjectivities and lived experiences of the filmmakers who make them. The thesis draws primarily on 14 months of fieldwork conducted in Israel (2018–2019) that involved observing and participating in the everyday working and learning practices of young filmmakers. The thesis identifies and interrogates the influences that shaped the form and content of their work, developed their ways of knowing, and crystallized their conceptions of what types of film are worth making.</p>
<p>The thesis argues that the widespread desire among the young filmmakers to make ‘personal films’ emerged from a regime of truth that has become dominant at the expense of other forms of truth telling—a regime in which the truth that the creative subject seeks to uncover and represent is her own ‘wounded heart.’ ‘The heart’ is analysed as a historically particular form of truth that lies at the centre of a complex discursive apparatus consisting of ethical practices, affective orientations, aesthetic forms, spatial components, and economic relations, all of which come to inform the creative practice of filmmaking. In this way, the thesis ethnographically demonstrates how larger cultural formations shape subjectivity, thereby contributing to scholarly understandings of the effects of identity politics in the form of personal, painful, and subjective experiences, at the microscale of how people think of themselves and others.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:7833db42-94ef-4046-9ed7-df935d1664522023-06-22T11:44:23Z'Putting your heart on the screen': an ethnography of young filmmakers in Israel Thesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:7833db42-94ef-4046-9ed7-df935d166452EnglishHyrax Deposit2022Roichman, MDzenovska, D<p><i>Putting Your Heart on the Screen</i> explores a new generation of Israeli filmmakers whose approach to filmmaking is defined by their conviction that they both must and can only make films about their own painful experiences—what they call their ‘heart’ (<i>lev</i>). It introduces a new approach to the complex subjective processes at play within film production via its focus on the intersections between this new genre of personal films and the subjectivities and lived experiences of the filmmakers who make them. The thesis draws primarily on 14 months of fieldwork conducted in Israel (2018–2019) that involved observing and participating in the everyday working and learning practices of young filmmakers. The thesis identifies and interrogates the influences that shaped the form and content of their work, developed their ways of knowing, and crystallized their conceptions of what types of film are worth making.</p> <p>The thesis argues that the widespread desire among the young filmmakers to make ‘personal films’ emerged from a regime of truth that has become dominant at the expense of other forms of truth telling—a regime in which the truth that the creative subject seeks to uncover and represent is her own ‘wounded heart.’ ‘The heart’ is analysed as a historically particular form of truth that lies at the centre of a complex discursive apparatus consisting of ethical practices, affective orientations, aesthetic forms, spatial components, and economic relations, all of which come to inform the creative practice of filmmaking. In this way, the thesis ethnographically demonstrates how larger cultural formations shape subjectivity, thereby contributing to scholarly understandings of the effects of identity politics in the form of personal, painful, and subjective experiences, at the microscale of how people think of themselves and others.</p> |
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