Traces of War
Memory, Trauma, and the Archive in Joseph Cedar's Beaufort
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23238060 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raz Yosef (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 61-83 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cinema Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-7101 • E-ISSN: 1527-2087 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cj.2011.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W1968560818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 10 |
One of the most striking phenomena in contemporary Israeli cinema is the number of films that explore repressed traumatic events from the First Lebanon War—events that have been denied entry into the shared national past. This essay analyzes Joseph Cedar's film Beaufort (2007), arguing that the film exposes a traumatic rupture between history and memory. Yet at the same time, Beaufort nostalgically expresses an impossible yearning for lost archival collective national memory.
Art · Art history · Beaufort scale · Collective memory · Geography · Historical memory · Humanities · Meteorology · Movie theater · Political science · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Middle East Politics and Society
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2020 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |