Haredi Cinema in Action - Bodies in Movement

Abstract

The paper is based on the author’s doctoral thesis and deals with a very special kind of cinema produced by minorities: movies that are made by orthodox Jews, especially in Israel. Haredi cinema, made by men, for men and marketed only through DVDs for home consumption, appropriated Hollywoodian action movies genre. In this context, I analyze how male body is presented in comparison with Zionist body construction in its efforts to differentiate itself from the European Judaism from the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century. Afterwards, I analyze aesthetic and narrative aspects of this kind of movies.