Reimagining the Promised Land: Israel and America in Post-War Hollywood Cinema

by Rodney Wallis

Book Overview

While Israel has seemingly been a minor presence in Hollywood cinema, Reimagining the Promised Land argues that there is a long history of Hollywood deploying images of Israel as a means of articulating an idealized notion of American national identity. This argument is developed through readings of The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (William Wyler, 1959), Exodus (Otto Preminger,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501373854
• ISBN13: 9781501373855
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"