N Lavie
Biographic Data
| ID | 56989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Lavie |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Lavie |
| SIGNATURE | LAVIE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2174-2743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Institutional Policy and Cultural Repertoires of Compliance During Covid-19 in Tel Aviv and New Orleans’ Cultural and Creative Industries
Cultural repertoires are tools for action, both preceding practices and shaping imaginings of their outcomes. This article introduces “cultural repertoires of compliance” as an analytic lens into the ways culture schematizes and scripts compliant actions. This approach is an alternative to others that attribute compliance to the effectiveness of a governance regime. Such explanations were common during the Covid-19 pandemic, when workers faced an…
Generational differentiations
Despite the increased research into perceptions of gender equality and family life among young adults recently, few studies have compared young adults from Generation Z with earlier generations. This study examines perceptions of gender equality within families and attitudes toward family life among young adults in Israel, comparing Generations X, Y, and Z, and explores how these differences relate to religiosity and gender. The research merged f…
The Silence of the Screens
This article examines the perceptions of Jewish-Israeli television drama creators on their social and political roles during times of war and political crisis in Israel and Palestine. An analysis of interviews conducted between 2023 and 2024, during a period of significant upheaval—including an attempt at judicial overhaul, the 7 October 2023 terror attack near the Gaza Strip, and the multi-front Gaza War that resulted in tens of thousands of Pal…
Navigating Emotional Labor and Social Exchange in Hospitality
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emotional management and social exchanges in the hospitality industry, focusing on food and beverage workers in Tel Aviv and New Orleans. Through 66 in-depth interviews conducted between 2021 and 2022, we explore how workers navigated altered social dynamics, heightened emotional labor, and moral dilemmas. Our analysis, grounded in Social Exchange Theory, dramaturgical theory, and the soc…
Quality on demand
The confluence zone model
Are these ‘Our Boys?’ Subversion and its reception on Israeli TV
This article presents a dual analysis of the Israeli TV series Our Boys and its media reception in Israel. Co-produced by HBO and Keshet Broadcasting, the series portrays the 2014 kidnapping and murder of a Palestinian youth by young Jewish boys in Jerusalem. It sparked significant debate in Israeli society, particularly in terms of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The research reveals how Our Boys reflects and influences societal attitudes, and…
Emplacement and Emplotment
Places matter, despite the discursive hype of virtual making or remote locations, in showing the ways that production is a process nested within social worlds. In 2020, global Hollywood promoted a “COVID-friendly ideal” in order to return to work during widespread lockdowns and work stoppages. Yet by focusing comparatively on the stories that film and television workers told about production during COVID, we argue that crisis stories reveal much …
Unveiling the “Totem”
The constructed quality of Israeli TV on Netflix
This study investigates how the concept of 'quality TV' is evolving in the age of streaming video on demand (SVOD) platforms, using reviews of two Israeli TV series on Netflix - Fauda and Shtisel. In accordance with Pierre Bourdieu's view of journalistic reviewers as social agents and intermediaries with the power to enshrine cultural artifacts in an artistic canon, the study is based on a qualitative analysis of reviews of these two series publi…
Ethical dilemmas of minority creative workers in the cultural industries
We are merely furniture’
This study aims to explore Palestinian-Israeli actors’ and actresses’ experiences in the Israeli TV market and their understanding of the rationalization/racialization processes taking place in the global television industry, which is dominated by Streaming Video On Demand platforms. The study is based on observations and interviews. The observations were conducted on the set of the internationally successful action drama Fauda during its second …
Hope and Creative Work in Conflict Zones
This article contributes to the theorization of hope in the cultural industries in conflict zones. Although the merits of hope in explicating the behavior of creative workers in cultural production in western countries has won some attention, the literature has fallen short of addressing the impact of conflict on the meaning of hope for minority creative workers in this field. To fill this lacuna, we explore the experience of Palestinian creative…
Self-categorization, intersectionality and creative freedom in the cultural industries
The cultural industries are major fields of producing, distributing and reflecting national icons and norms. They form major sites of contestation and conflictual self-categorization, especially in conflict zones. Our article explores the intersection between nationality and gender in cultural production in such contexts. It examines the engagement of Palestinian women filmmakers within the Israeli cultural industry, seeking to facilitate a bette…
The Y Generation Myth
Our study seeks to compare attitudes towards family life and gender roles between Generation X and Generation Y, focusing on the ages of 18-29, a period regarded as that of emerging adulthood. Most of the academic scholarship on this issue focuses on Western and Anglo-American individuals, their values and perceptions. By contrast, our article explores questions of gender roles and family life among Generations X and Y in the Middle Eastern count…
Trapped in Reality
This article examines the self-perception of Israel TV's reality show creators as a case study of how cultural industry employees perceive and cope with their work. On the one hand, creators of reality TV in Israel operate in a competitive and precarious working environment, and on the other hand, their work is criticized as inferior and culturally corrupting. Using a combination of cultural industries approach, sociological concepts, and in-dept…
Israeli TV creators’ social justifications
In the past three decades, side-by-side with the growing precariousness of the global television industry, a distinction between “quality” TV and “trashy,” commercial TV has been established in many Western TV production fields. As a result, television creators – writers, producers, and directors – confront multi-faceted moral, financial, and professional dilemmas as well as struggles over positions and prestige.Taking the Israeli TV field as a c…
Resisting subalternity
This article explores the complexity of minority creative workers in the media industry. It challenges the common notion in the literature that minority creative workers are fully submissive to the dominant power structure and examines whether such workers could still be conceived as active agents by resisting submission and marginalization even when they cannot influence their own representation in hegemonic media texts. To answer this question,…
Constructing ethno-national differentiation on the set of the TV series, Fauda
Cultural industries, television among them, are industries that exemplify harsh working conditions and precariousness. Recently, there has been greater attention paid to the specific experiences of ethnic and racial minorities in the creative industries in general and on television specifically. However, the study of minorities in television has generally focused on content analysis and not on the daily experiences of workers in the precarious te…
Introduction to the special issue on global tastes
Justifying Trash
Reality TV is a highly popular but much criticized television genre. However, little has been written about the attitude of state broadcasting authorities toward this genre and the degree to which it is regulated and controlled in different countries. In this article, we focus on the Second Authority for Television and Radio, the public body that oversees commercial broadcasting in Israel, and look at how it controls the volume and content of rea…
Reality' Television Critique in Israel
Reality' television is a global and highly popular television phenomenon. Despite its public and academic critique as cultural 'trash', the genre enjoys great economic legitimacy. In recent years, other 'trashy' television genres, such as soap operas, have gained aesthetic-artistic legitimacy alongside their economic legitimacy. Taking a Bourdieusian approach and using the discourse about Israeli 'reality' shows as a case study, this article addr…
Israeli drama
The current study focuses on the social construction of definitions of quality in the field of the television drama series in Israel. By doing that, this work challenges Pierre Bourdieu’s claim that since artifacts of ‘popular culture’ industries are not regarded as ‘autonomous’, according to the autonomy-of-art ideology, they cannot be consecrated as works of art. Bourdieu’s thesis was challenged before, but the television field has not yet been…
Quality television' in the making
Quality television' in the making
Constructing ethno-national differentiation on the set of the TV series, Fauda
Cultural industries, television among them, are industries that exemplify harsh working conditions and precariousness. Recently, there has been greater attention paid to the specific experiences of ethnic and racial minorities in the creative industries in general and on television specifically. However, the study of minorities in television has generally focused on content analysis and not on the daily experiences of workers in the precarious te…
Israeli drama
The current study focuses on the social construction of definitions of quality in the field of the television drama series in Israel. By doing that, this work challenges Pierre Bourdieu’s claim that since artifacts of ‘popular culture’ industries are not regarded as ‘autonomous’, according to the autonomy-of-art ideology, they cannot be consecrated as works of art. Bourdieu’s thesis was challenged before, but the television field has not yet been…
The Y Generation Myth
Our study seeks to compare attitudes towards family life and gender roles between Generation X and Generation Y, focusing on the ages of 18-29, a period regarded as that of emerging adulthood. Most of the academic scholarship on this issue focuses on Western and Anglo-American individuals, their values and perceptions. By contrast, our article explores questions of gender roles and family life among Generations X and Y in the Middle Eastern count…
Resisting subalternity
This article explores the complexity of minority creative workers in the media industry. It challenges the common notion in the literature that minority creative workers are fully submissive to the dominant power structure and examines whether such workers could still be conceived as active agents by resisting submission and marginalization even when they cannot influence their own representation in hegemonic media texts. To answer this question,…
Introduction to the special issue on global tastes
Justifying Trash
Reality TV is a highly popular but much criticized television genre. However, little has been written about the attitude of state broadcasting authorities toward this genre and the degree to which it is regulated and controlled in different countries. In this article, we focus on the Second Authority for Television and Radio, the public body that oversees commercial broadcasting in Israel, and look at how it controls the volume and content of rea…
Navigating Emotional Labor and Social Exchange in Hospitality
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emotional management and social exchanges in the hospitality industry, focusing on food and beverage workers in Tel Aviv and New Orleans. Through 66 in-depth interviews conducted between 2021 and 2022, we explore how workers navigated altered social dynamics, heightened emotional labor, and moral dilemmas. Our analysis, grounded in Social Exchange Theory, dramaturgical theory, and the soc…
We are merely furniture’
This study aims to explore Palestinian-Israeli actors’ and actresses’ experiences in the Israeli TV market and their understanding of the rationalization/racialization processes taking place in the global television industry, which is dominated by Streaming Video On Demand platforms. The study is based on observations and interviews. The observations were conducted on the set of the internationally successful action drama Fauda during its second …
Reality' Television Critique in Israel
Reality' television is a global and highly popular television phenomenon. Despite its public and academic critique as cultural 'trash', the genre enjoys great economic legitimacy. In recent years, other 'trashy' television genres, such as soap operas, have gained aesthetic-artistic legitimacy alongside their economic legitimacy. Taking a Bourdieusian approach and using the discourse about Israeli 'reality' shows as a case study, this article addr…
Israeli drama
The current study focuses on the social construction of definitions of quality in the field of the television drama series in Israel. By doing that, this work challenges Pierre Bourdieu’s claim that since artifacts of ‘popular culture’ industries are not regarded as ‘autonomous’, according to the autonomy-of-art ideology, they cannot be consecrated as works of art. Bourdieu’s thesis was challenged before, but the television field has not yet been…
Quality television' in the making
Reality' Television Critique in Israel
Reality' television is a global and highly popular television phenomenon. Despite its public and academic critique as cultural 'trash', the genre enjoys great economic legitimacy. In recent years, other 'trashy' television genres, such as soap operas, have gained aesthetic-artistic legitimacy alongside their economic legitimacy. Taking a Bourdieusian approach and using the discourse about Israeli 'reality' shows as a case study, this article addr…
Justifying Trash
Reality TV is a highly popular but much criticized television genre. However, little has been written about the attitude of state broadcasting authorities toward this genre and the degree to which it is regulated and controlled in different countries. In this article, we focus on the Second Authority for Television and Radio, the public body that oversees commercial broadcasting in Israel, and look at how it controls the volume and content of rea…
Constructing ethno-national differentiation on the set of the TV series, Fauda
Cultural industries, television among them, are industries that exemplify harsh working conditions and precariousness. Recently, there has been greater attention paid to the specific experiences of ethnic and racial minorities in the creative industries in general and on television specifically. However, the study of minorities in television has generally focused on content analysis and not on the daily experiences of workers in the precarious te…
Introduction to the special issue on global tastes
Trapped in Reality
This article examines the self-perception of Israel TV's reality show creators as a case study of how cultural industry employees perceive and cope with their work. On the one hand, creators of reality TV in Israel operate in a competitive and precarious working environment, and on the other hand, their work is criticized as inferior and culturally corrupting. Using a combination of cultural industries approach, sociological concepts, and in-dept…
Israeli TV creators’ social justifications
In the past three decades, side-by-side with the growing precariousness of the global television industry, a distinction between “quality” TV and “trashy,” commercial TV has been established in many Western TV production fields. As a result, television creators – writers, producers, and directors – confront multi-faceted moral, financial, and professional dilemmas as well as struggles over positions and prestige.Taking the Israeli TV field as a c…
Resisting subalternity
This article explores the complexity of minority creative workers in the media industry. It challenges the common notion in the literature that minority creative workers are fully submissive to the dominant power structure and examines whether such workers could still be conceived as active agents by resisting submission and marginalization even when they cannot influence their own representation in hegemonic media texts. To answer this question,…
Self-categorization, intersectionality and creative freedom in the cultural industries
The cultural industries are major fields of producing, distributing and reflecting national icons and norms. They form major sites of contestation and conflictual self-categorization, especially in conflict zones. Our article explores the intersection between nationality and gender in cultural production in such contexts. It examines the engagement of Palestinian women filmmakers within the Israeli cultural industry, seeking to facilitate a bette…
The Y Generation Myth
Our study seeks to compare attitudes towards family life and gender roles between Generation X and Generation Y, focusing on the ages of 18-29, a period regarded as that of emerging adulthood. Most of the academic scholarship on this issue focuses on Western and Anglo-American individuals, their values and perceptions. By contrast, our article explores questions of gender roles and family life among Generations X and Y in the Middle Eastern count…
Ethical dilemmas of minority creative workers in the cultural industries
We are merely furniture’
This study aims to explore Palestinian-Israeli actors’ and actresses’ experiences in the Israeli TV market and their understanding of the rationalization/racialization processes taking place in the global television industry, which is dominated by Streaming Video On Demand platforms. The study is based on observations and interviews. The observations were conducted on the set of the internationally successful action drama Fauda during its second …
Hope and Creative Work in Conflict Zones
This article contributes to the theorization of hope in the cultural industries in conflict zones. Although the merits of hope in explicating the behavior of creative workers in cultural production in western countries has won some attention, the literature has fallen short of addressing the impact of conflict on the meaning of hope for minority creative workers in this field. To fill this lacuna, we explore the experience of Palestinian creative…
Unveiling the “Totem”
The constructed quality of Israeli TV on Netflix
This study investigates how the concept of 'quality TV' is evolving in the age of streaming video on demand (SVOD) platforms, using reviews of two Israeli TV series on Netflix - Fauda and Shtisel. In accordance with Pierre Bourdieu's view of journalistic reviewers as social agents and intermediaries with the power to enshrine cultural artifacts in an artistic canon, the study is based on a qualitative analysis of reviews of these two series publi…
Emplacement and Emplotment
Places matter, despite the discursive hype of virtual making or remote locations, in showing the ways that production is a process nested within social worlds. In 2020, global Hollywood promoted a “COVID-friendly ideal” in order to return to work during widespread lockdowns and work stoppages. Yet by focusing comparatively on the stories that film and television workers told about production during COVID, we argue that crisis stories reveal much …
Navigating Emotional Labor and Social Exchange in Hospitality
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emotional management and social exchanges in the hospitality industry, focusing on food and beverage workers in Tel Aviv and New Orleans. Through 66 in-depth interviews conducted between 2021 and 2022, we explore how workers navigated altered social dynamics, heightened emotional labor, and moral dilemmas. Our analysis, grounded in Social Exchange Theory, dramaturgical theory, and the soc…
Quality on demand
The confluence zone model
Are these ‘Our Boys?’ Subversion and its reception on Israeli TV
This article presents a dual analysis of the Israeli TV series Our Boys and its media reception in Israel. Co-produced by HBO and Keshet Broadcasting, the series portrays the 2014 kidnapping and murder of a Palestinian youth by young Jewish boys in Jerusalem. It sparked significant debate in Israeli society, particularly in terms of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The research reveals how Our Boys reflects and influences societal attitudes, and…
Institutional Policy and Cultural Repertoires of Compliance During Covid-19 in Tel Aviv and New Orleans’ Cultural and Creative Industries
Cultural repertoires are tools for action, both preceding practices and shaping imaginings of their outcomes. This article introduces “cultural repertoires of compliance” as an analytic lens into the ways culture schematizes and scripts compliant actions. This approach is an alternative to others that attribute compliance to the effectiveness of a governance regime. Such explanations were common during the Covid-19 pandemic, when workers faced an…
Generational differentiations
Despite the increased research into perceptions of gender equality and family life among young adults recently, few studies have compared young adults from Generation Z with earlier generations. This study examines perceptions of gender equality within families and attitudes toward family life among young adults in Israel, comparing Generations X, Y, and Z, and explores how these differences relate to religiosity and gender. The research merged f…
The Silence of the Screens
This article examines the perceptions of Jewish-Israeli television drama creators on their social and political roles during times of war and political crisis in Israel and Palestine. An analysis of interviews conducted between 2023 and 2024, during a period of significant upheaval—including an attempt at judicial overhaul, the 7 October 2023 terror attack near the Gaza Strip, and the multi-front Gaza War that resulted in tens of thousands of Pal…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (9 works) · Media Studies and Communication (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works)