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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The Post-Holocaust Jew in the Age of "The War on Terror": Steven Spielberg'sMunich
Contributor:
Loshitzky, Yosefa
Published:
University of California Press, 2011
Published in:
Journal of Palestine Studies, 40 (2011) 2, Seite 77-87
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/jps.2011.xl.2.77
ISSN:
0377-919X;
1533-8614
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>As a film about "terror" spilling over from its local context (the struggle over Palestine) into the global arena,<italic>Munich</italic>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.</p>