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A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker Rami Kimchi sets out a history of Bourekas films and discusses their origin.
Kimchi considers the representation of Sephardi or Mizrahi Jews in the films, noting that the material culture reflected in the the films presented a culture that was closer to the European Yiddish culture than to the Middle Eastern world of the Mizrahim. Kimchi reflects on the enormous popularity and commercial success of Bourekas films, uncovers how they were made, who made them and why, and discusses the impact of the films on Israeli cinema today.
Israeli Bourekas Films is a film insider's view of the characters, stories, and cultures that made Bourekas films such an important part of Israeli life.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Birth of the Bourekas:
Sallah and Its Innovations
A Thematic Analysis of Bourekas
Mizrahi Self Representation Films
Bourekas and Classical Yiddish Literature
The Dynamics of Continuity between Two Disparate Cultures
Bourekas Legacy: Post-Bourekas and Neo-Bourekas
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Rami Kimchi teaches film and television in the School of Communications at Ariel University, and held guest appointment at University of Michigan and University of California, San Diego. He is an international award-winning filmmaker and a culture critic. He is the author of
The Israeli Shtetls: Bourekas Films and Yiddish Classical Literature.
