New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell their story. Through in-depth analysis, engaging storytelling, and interviews with the filmmakers, Olga Gershenson explores their films from inception to reception. She shows how these films challenge traditional representations of Israel and its people, while also appealing to audiences around the world.

Gershenson introduces an innovative conceptual framework of adaptation, which explains how filmmakers adapt global genre tropes to local reality. It illuminates the ways in which Israeli horror borrows and diverges from its international models. New Israeli Horror offers an exciting and original contribution to our understanding of both Israeli cinema and the horror genre.

A companion website to this book is available at https: //blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/ (https: //blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/)

Book trailer: https: //youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw (https: //youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw)


Author: Olga Gershenson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 11/10/2023
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.12w x 0.32d
ISBN13: 9781978837843
ISBN10: 1978837844
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | Genres | Horror
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Social Science | Popular Culture

About the Author
OLGA GERSHENSON is a professor of Judaic and Near Eastern studies and of Film studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe (Rutgers University Press) and Gesher: Russian Theater in Israel, and editor of Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender.