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- Title
Radical Vision: The Films of Judd Ne'eman.
- Authors
Burstein, Janet
- Abstract
This essay argues that Judd Ne'eman's films begin in political critique, seek out causes of cultural malaise in the failure to see and to hear "others" both outside and within the self, and ultimately envision new cultural promise in the work of performance artists. In his films a "radical vision" evolves--in the literal, original sense of the word: a way of seeing that goes to the roots. Documentaries and feature films look at what his culture looks away from in the lives of Bedouins, Israeli Arabs and Jews, soldiers, and dissidents. His films expose the hidden roots of persistent personal and collective conflicts and finally elicit from the work of writers, dancers, and actors a new mythos--to succeed the broken myths within this troubled state. As his characters learn to see the world they've made, they demonstrate the struggle to become responsible for themselves and for one another.
- Subjects
NE'EMAN, Judd; DRESS, The (Film); OBSERVATION on Acco (Film); FELLOW Travellers (Film); RADICALISM -- Social aspects; POLITICS in motion pictures; PALESTINIANS in motion pictures; JEWS in motion pictures
- Publication
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2012, Vol 31, Issue 1, p112
- ISSN
0882-8539
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/sho.2012.0108