TY - JOUR
T1 - The post-holocaust jew in the age of "the war on terror "
T2 - Steven Spielberg's Munich
AU - Loshitzky, Yosefa
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - As a film about "terror" spilling over from its local context (the struggle over Palestine) into the global arena, Munich transcends the specificity of the so-called "Palestinian question" to become a contemporary allegory of the Western construct of "the war on terror." The essay explores the boundaries and contradictions of the "moral universe" constructed and mediated by the film, interpreted by some as a dovish critique of Israeli (and post-9/11 U.S.) policy. Along the way, the author probes whether this "Hollywood Eastern" continues the long Zionist tradition seen in popular films from Exodus onwards, or signals a rupture (or even latent subversion) of it.
AB - As a film about "terror" spilling over from its local context (the struggle over Palestine) into the global arena, Munich transcends the specificity of the so-called "Palestinian question" to become a contemporary allegory of the Western construct of "the war on terror." The essay explores the boundaries and contradictions of the "moral universe" constructed and mediated by the film, interpreted by some as a dovish critique of Israeli (and post-9/11 U.S.) policy. Along the way, the author probes whether this "Hollywood Eastern" continues the long Zionist tradition seen in popular films from Exodus onwards, or signals a rupture (or even latent subversion) of it.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79954462642&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1525/jps.2011.XL.2.77
DO - 10.1525/jps.2011.XL.2.77
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AN - SCOPUS:79954462642
SN - 0377-919X
VL - 40
SP - 77
EP - 87
JO - Journal of Palestine Studies
JF - Journal of Palestine Studies
IS - 2
ER -
