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Article: Modern Hebrew Literature Made into Films.(Book Reviews)
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- January 1, 2004
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Modern Hebrew Literature Made into Films, by Lev Hakak. Lanham: University Press of America, 2001. $52.00.
The considerably praiseworthy nature and scholarly meritorious character of this book stems from a phenomenon that will be hereby briefly addressed.
The principal unique character of this book derives from its innovative scholarly agenda and mission: to study modern Hebrew literature, while the latter is "metamorphasized" from the verbal genre to the visual genre of film. This metamorphosis, which amalgamates two different artistic genres that meet and interact in one aesthetic intersection, is achieved by producing two unexpectedly insightful ...