- Personal
- Education
- Academic Appointments
- Professional Experience
- Fields of Research
- Scholarships
- Membership on Editorial Boards
- Reports for Refereed Publications
- Membership in Professional Societies
- Teaching Responsibility for Open University Courses
- List of Publications
- Conferences
Personal
Office: 972-9-7781985
Cell: 972-54-4911083
Fax: 972-9-7782671
E-mail: yaelmu@openu.ac.il
Education
| 1980 | B.A., French and English Literature, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
| 1982 | Teaching Certificate, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
| 1987 | M.A., Comparative Literature, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
| 2005 |
Ph.D., Film Studies, Tel-Aviv University Dissertation: Borderline Cinema: Space and Identity in Israeli Cinema of the 1990s" Supervisors: Prof. Judd Ne'eman and Dr. Orly Lubin. |
Academic Appointments
| 1994 – 2001 | Lecturer, Wizo College of Arts, Haifa |
| 1994 – 2001 | Lecturer, Camera Obscura School of Arts, Tel-Aviv |
| 2000 – 2006 | Lecturer, the Bezalel School of Arts and Design |
| 2002 – 2003 | Lecturer, Leifer Center for Women and Gender, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
| 2003 – 2005 | Lecturer, Film and Television Department and Women Studies Department, Tel-Aviv University |
| 2003 – 2008 | Lecturer, Cinema Department, The Sapir College |
| 2003 – 2008 | Course Coordinator, The Open University of Israel |
| 2008 | Visiting Faculty Member, the Open University of Israel |
Professional Experience
| 1987 – 1990 | Programming Director, The Jerusalem Cinematheque |
| 1991 – 1992 | Member, Founding Committee of the Communication Show, "Tik Tikshoret," Educational Television |
| 1991 – 1994 | Artistic Director, The Tel-Aviv Cinematheque |
| 2001 – 2004 | Artistic Consultant, The Annual Conference of The Documentary Filmmakers Forum |
| 2005 | Member, PIOFF (Palestinian-Israeli On the Road Film Festival) Steering Committee (Norway) |
| 2005 – | Lector, the New Israel Fund for Film and Television |
| 2006 – | Lector, the Rabinowitz Foundation for Film |
| 2008 – | Member, Jury of the Chicago International Film Festival |
| 2009 – | Evaluator for Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships, The Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York |
Fields of Research
- Israeli Cinema
- Gender Studies
- Judaism and Film
- Cinema and Architecture
Scholarships
| 2008 | The Schusterman Foundation, Chicago |
| 2004 | The Open University Excellence Scholarship for Ph.D. research |
Membership on Editorial Boards
| 2005 | Ofakim Hadashim (Beit Berl), Guest Editor |
| 2003 | Ein BeEin: Journal of Film, Video and Television, Bavel Pusblishers |
Reports for Refereed Publications
| 2008 | Israel (special issue on film studies), Tel-Aviv University, Guest editor: Raz Yosef |
| 2007 | Misgeret Media, ed.: Akiva Cohen, Tel-Aviv University |
| 2007 | Israel Sociology, Tel-Aviv University |
| 2007 | Yiunim BeTkumat Israel, Ben Gurion University |
Membership in Professional Societies
- Association for Israel Studies (AIS)
- National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH)
Teaching Responsibility for Open University Courses
| 2003 – 2008 | Israeli Fiction and Cinema (10421) |
List of Publications
Thesis and Dissertation
| 2005 | "Borderline Cinema: Space and Identity in Israeli Cinema of the 1990s" Ph. Dissertation written under the supervision of Prof. Judd Ne'eman and Dr. Orly Lubin |
Edited Books
| 2008 | "On Ruins, Trauma and Cinema" (with Eyal Sivan), Makhbarot Kolnoa Darom no. 2, Pardes Publishers, Israel. |
| 2005 | "On Consciousness and Cinema: Following Judd Ne'eman" (with Eyal Sivan), Makhbarot Kolnoa Darom no. 1, Pardes Publishers, Israel. |
Articles in Refereed Books
| 2009 |
"'This is the Way Terrorists Grow Up': Some Cinematic Insights on the Occupation," in 40 Years of Occupation: The Affects on Israeli society, ed., Ehraim Lavie, Tel-Aviv University Press, pp. 163-170. "Guarda Loro E Vedrai Noi: Tendenze Produttive nel Documentario Israeliano Contemporaneo," in Il Cinema Israeliano Comtemporaneo, Venezia: Marsilio Editori, pp. 167-184. "I Dissidenti Doc: Amos Gitai, Avi Mograbi, Eyal Sivan," in Il Cinema Israeliano Comtemporaneo, Venezia: Marsilio Editori, pp. 185-194. |
| 2008 |
"Amos Gitai: Challenging the Blind Spots of Israeli Identity," in Munio Weinraub-Amos Gitai Exhibition: Architecture and Film in Israel, Munich: Minerva Editions (English and German). "Israeli Cinema in the Third Decade" (with Nurith Gertz), in Cathedra, ed., Zvi Zameret and Hana Yablonka, Yad Ben Zvi Publishers (in Hebrew). "The Return of the Repressed: Sexual Stereotypes of the Old Jew: The Case of Gift from Heaven" (with Sandra Meiri), in Jews and Sex: An Anthology, ed. Nathan Abrams, Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications, pp. 66-76. |
| 2007 |
"Motherhood as an Oppositional Standpoint: On Michal Aviad's For My Children," in Gender in Conflicts: Palestine-Israel-Germany, ed. Christina von Braun & Ulrike Auga Berlin: LIT Verlag, pp. 143-148. "Behind Romeo, Behind Juliet: The Conflict," in Documentaly: Articles on Documentary Cinema in Israel, ed. Ma'ayan Amir, Am Oved Publishers, pp. 236-244 (in Hebrew). "Israeli Cinema: Hebrew Identity/Jewish Identity" (with Nurith Gertz), in Zman Yehudi Hadash: Tarbut Yehudit BeIdan shel Hilun, Vol. 3, ed. Dan Meiron and Hanan Hever, Keter Publishers, pp. 269-276 (in Hebrew). |
| 2006 | "Forbidden Woman / Forbidden City," in Block II, ed. Carmela Ya'akoby Walk and Iftach Aloni, Keter Publishes, pp. 146-149 (in Hebrew). |
| 2005 |
"Frontières de conflit, frontières de représentation: sur le film d'Anat Even et Ada Ushpiz 'Enchainees'," in Israeliens, Palestiniens: que peut le cinema? ed., Janine Euvrard, Paris: Editions Michalon. "La maternité comme attitude oppositionnelle: sur For my Children (2002) de Michal Aviad," in Israeliens, Palestiniens: que peut le cinema? ed Janine Euvrard, Paris: Editions Michalon. "Major Trends in Contemporary Israeli Cinema," in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture, ed., Glenda Abramson, Routledge, UK. |
| 2002 | "'The Truman Show' or "when the father collapses," in Game: A Look from Psychoanalysis and from Elsewhere, ed., Emilia Perroni, Yediot Aharonot Publishers (in Hebrew). |
Accepted For Publication in Refereed Books
"'Avanti Popolo' or the Battle Cry of the Fallen" (with Judd Neeman), Film and Politics in the Middle East and the Maghreb, ed., Josef Gugler, Texas University Press.
"The Privatization of War Memories in Recent Israeli War Films," Identities in Motion: The Israeli Cinema Reader, ed., Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg, Texas University Press.
"The Political Impact of Israeli Cinema on the Conflict: A Challenge to be met" (with Nurith Gertz), Film and Politics in the Middle East and the Maghreb, ed., Josef Gugler, Texas University Press.
"Films in Israel" (with Nurith Gertz), Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture, ed. Judith Baskin, Cambridge University Press.
"The Representation of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Israeli Cinema" (with Nurith Gertz), Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, ed., Cheryl Rubenberg, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Articles in Refereed Journals
| 2009 |
"When the Ghosts of Colonialism Invade the City of Paris: From Mon Oncle to Cache," Scroope - Cambridge Architecture Journal, 19, 94-99. "Kippur ou l'anatomie d'un traumatisme," CinemAction, ed. Lucie Degas, Paris: Corlet Publications. |
| 2008 |
"Schauplatz Tel-Aviv: Dir sakulare Metropole im israelischen Film," Judischer Almanach der Leo Baeck Institute, ed. Gisela Dachs, Judischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlage, 107-116. "Tel-Aviv, capitale du cinema israelien," Tzafon, Guest editor: Rina Cohen (Universite de Lille). "The Post-Colonial Function of the Virtual Space of Television in Israeli Cinema of the 1990s," Framework, 49 (1), 83-92. |
| 2006 |
"Le retour du cinema Israelien vers le Judaisme," Cahiers du Judaisme, Paris. "False Nostalgia and Cultural Amnesia: The city of Tel-Aviv in Israeli Cinema of the 1990s," Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 24 (4), 130-143. |
| 2001 | "In Front of Mr. Baum's Naked Body," Teoria VeBikoret, 18, Van Leer Institute, 193-197 (in Hebrew). |
Accepted For Publication in Refereed Journals
"Déplacement du mythe du Sabra: L'adaptation cinématographique de Pour Inventaire de Yaakov Shabtai par Amos Gitai," YOD, INALCO, Paris, ed., Masha Itzhaki.
Translations
| 2007 | "Les Abus de Memoires" by Tzvetan Todorov (with Eyal Sivan), Makhbarot Kolnoa Darom 2, pp. 9-23 (into Hebrew). |
| 1999 | "Les Intellectuels et le Pouvoir: Entretien Deleuze et Foucault," HaMeorer, 8 (into Hebrew). |
Conferences
"Public Housing and Emptiness: Changes in Landscape Representation in Recent Israeli Cinema," Conference "Landscape and Space," Bezalel Academy of Art, 10.3.2009.
"Ram Levy and the Question of Visibility Regarding the Pain of Others," Conference in honor of Ram Levy, Department of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv University, 23.3.2009.
"The Desert Brides: Two Cameras and Human Rights," The Annual Conference for Visual Culture, Bar Ilan University, 6.4.2009.
"Waltz with Bashir: An Israeli Questioning a Soldier's Complicity in the Spectacle of War," The (In) visibility of War Conference, The Catholic University of Lisbon, Portugal, 7-10.5.2009.
"The Dance of Death: A Re-reading of Avanti Popolo" (with Judd Ne'eman), Why War Conference, Tel-Aviv University, 13-14.5.2009.
"Home and the World: An Intertextual Reading of Broken Wings (Nir Bergman, 2000)," AIS International Conference, Sapir College, 1.6.2009.
"Forty Years of Wandering: Between 'A Hole in the Moon'(Zohar 1964) and 'Turn Left at the End of the World' (Nesher, 2004)," NAPH Conference 2009 London, July 6-9, 2009.
"The Only Possible Way to Visualize History: on 'Zentropa'(Lars von Trier, 1919)," Just Images - the International Cinema Studies Conference of Tel-Aviv University, May 3-5, 2008.
"Le Glissement de l'image de Zabar: entre "Pour inventaire"(Ya'akov Shabtai) et "Dvarim"(Gitai, 1994), 60 ans de litterature israelienne conference, Universite de Lille, France, May 28-30, 2008.
"Seeking for the Meaning of a Heroic Death: between 'Beaufort' (Sider, 2007) and 'Paradise Now'(Abu Assad, 2005)," The AIS Conference, New York, May 19-21, 2008.
"This is the Way Terrorists Grow Up: Some Cinematic Insights on the Occupation," 40 years of Occupation Conference, Tel-Aviv University, 31.3.2008.
"Our Open Nerves: The reflection of Israeli Society Traumas in the Television Series 'In Treatment'," The 'In Treatment' Conference, Sapir College, 23.3.2008.
"Between Modern Fears and Postmodern Fears: The remakes of American Science Fiction Films," The Fantasy and Science Fiction Conference, Bar Ilan University, 18.3.2008.
"Where are the Women Soldiers of Israeli Cinema?," The National Security and Gender Conference, Bar Ilan University, 5.3.2008.
"The Bakhtinian Carnival in Israeli Popular Cinema: The Case of 'Salah Shabati'," The Dialogue with Bakhtin Conference, Ben Gurion University, 13.6.2007.
"On Castration and Immigration in Dover Kosashvilli's Gift from Heaven" (with Sandra Meiri), The 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, 12.6. 2007.
"Dreamers often lie: on Anat Even's documentary 'Compromise'," The International Conference for Cultural Studies, Boston, 4-7.4.2007.
"The Short History of Vicki Knafo's de-legitimization," The Taming of The Shrew Conference (in memory of Dr. Vicky Shiran), Beit Berl College, 21.3.2007.
"The French Jewish Cinema as a Necessary Auto-fiction: The Case of 'Voyages'," The 'Cinema under the Influence' Conference (in honor of Professor Michal Friedman), Tel-Aviv University, 17.1.2007.
"Whatever Happened on the Way to Fulfillment," The Annual Conference of Conflict Management, Bar Ilan University, 9.1.2007.
"Tel Aviv City: The Metropolis Amnestic Discourse in 90's Israeli cinema," The IVSA (International Visual Sociology Association) Conference, Urbino, Italy, July 2006.
"The Post-Colonial Function of Television's Virtual Space in 90's Israeli Cinema," Moving Images: The Morphing of the Real and its Vicissitudes, Department of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv University, June 7-9, 2006.
"Forty Years of Desert in Israeli Cinema: From 'A Hole in the Moon' to 'Turn Left at the End of the World'," 'The Desert in the Israeli Imaginary' Conference, Sdeh Boker College and Ben Gurion University, 23.5.2006.
"Back to the Land of Germany: The New Israeli Cinema deals with the Holocaust Memory," Yad VaShem Conference on the Representation of the Holocaust in Feature Films: Hollywood and Israel, 22.5.2006.
"From the Fields to the Coach: Inter-textuality in 'In Treatment' Television Series," The Israel Communication Association, Jerusalem 9.4.2006.
"The Beauty of Sin: On Amos Gutman's 'Himo, King of Jerusalem',"The Shock of Beauty Conference, Bezalel Academy of Art, 26.4.2006.
"The City of Acre's Space as the Space of the Sick Body: On Judd Ne'eman's film 'Observation on Acre, January, 1976," Special Conference in Honor of Prof. Judd Ne'eman, Tel-Aviv University, 2006.
"'A Hole in the Moon' as the first post-Zionist film," The Jewish Cinema: Representation, Image and Identity Conference, Ben Gurion University, 21.11.2005.
"From Stranger to Inlander: The Representation of the Palestinian Arab in Israeli Cinema," A special conference organized for the publication of Prof. Daniel Bartal's book: Representation of Arabs in Israeli Jewish Society, Cambridge 2005, 6/6/2005.
"Vicky Knafo's image metamorphosis as a reflection of the fate of social leadership in Israel," The Ninth Conference of the Communication Association, Ben Gurion University, 20.4.2005.
"Someone at the Window: Cinematic Translations of Unhomeliness in Recent Israeli Cinema," "The Wall," Tel-Aviv University International Cinema Conference, June 2004.
"The Archeology of a Dream: The City of Tel-Aviv in 90's Israeli Cinema," The Israeli City: The last Hebrew City? The Shenkar Forum for Culture and Society, Tel-Aviv Museum, March 21-23, 2004.
"Motherhood as Political Subject Standpoint," Presented at Gender: Order and Disorder, Curator: Christina von Braun, Berlin, The Goethe Institute, Tel-Aviv, 2003.
"'Kippur': The Anatomy of a Trauma," The Sociological Society Conference, Beit Berl College, 2002.
"Women and Borders: on Anat Even and Ada Ushpiz's 'Detained'," "Why War," The Tel-Aviv University International Cinema Conference, June 2002.
"Cup Final: or the Vain Glory of War," The Peres Institute for Peace Conference, Bari University, Italy, September 2000.
"The Multiple Faces of IDF: The Case of Drix," The AIS International Conference, Tel-Aviv University, 2000.
"Displacement as Abject in 90's Israeli Cinema," The Tel-Aviv University International Cinema Conference, June 2000.
"The Vision of a Man named Uri Zohar," The Uri Zohar Conference, The Open University and Tel-Aviv University, December 1999.