All About The Growth Of Film Industry In Israeli (Essay Sample)

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The Israeli film industry has had tremendous growth over time. The film industry started its growth from the 1948 and since then the growth has been exponential. They are distinguishing features that set aside the Israeli from the rest. These features can be used to describe the Israeli film industry. These and other common themes intended to educate and enlighten the general viewers on the development of the Jewish and other cultures developing simultaneously in modern Israel. The features are described below in details.
Most of the Israel based movies are based on the stringent religions in the country. The major religion in the country is the developing the Jewish religion. They presence a heavy Jewish culture, temples, and mentions of rabii and other Hebrew derived words is common in these films. These features help in developing the theme intended in the movies, (Errigo, 2016). Another event that has shaped the Israel film industry is the political and religious war wars surrounding Israel that is the Jewish- Arab wars especially along the Gaza strip with the neighboring country Palestine. The war which has been on and off over the last two decades has been in the country for so long that it has been included in many movies trying to depict the effects both political and social-economic of the war.
Another feature of Israeli movies involves the modern Israeli culture, which is highly influenced with the Eastern and western culture and believes. The immerging trends which are based on neither religious nor societal customs have influenced the Israeli cultural development and many movies have tried to document the conflict between sticking to the strict religious guidelines on social issues and secular believes being introduced by the western culture.
The major Israeli movies belong to very specific genre. The common genres in these movies are the drama, thriller, comedy and the most recent development is the horror genres. For the longest time the most common genre has been the epic movies. These genres are usually preferred due to the unique setting and architecture of Israel and especially Jerusalem and the other ancient towns with the ancient architecture and buildings which act as good sites for shooting vintage movies. The movies shot in these areas usually have a bias towards religious based vintage movies especially those about Jewish and Christian religious history.
Examples of the movies chose as the case study; Cupcake is a comedy shoot and trying to show the coming to birth of the film and other types of art, the movie is about this group of friends who are disappointed on a performance by a group representing the Israeli people in a live performance show. They finally enroll and are able to represent and win the contest. The movie shows the possibilities that will power can open up including the development of the Israeli film industry to a world-wide force to recon with.
Another movies in the case study is the Dizengoff 99, a movie about three people who move in together work their way up to be great movie producers. The three who, start as front office assistants and hustle their way up to the pinnacle of the industry, the movie depicts the theme of struggle and getting the rewards of dreaming big and chasing after the dreams.
The modern Israel movies have adopted new trends distinguishing them from the other movies from other regions. The distinguishing properties include
Localization and globalization- due to the small population density of the country Israel, it favors a lot the incorporation of other cultures from all the other parts of the world. This has led to washing down of what can be assumed as the locals’ culture and way of life and adapting other ways of life. The major areas of these exports of culture into Israel, is United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom and other Western Europe countries.
The other distinguishing factor is the evidence of a Zionist theme. This is a combination of the ancient Jewish culture and modern western influence. It’s a new cultured developed by combining the new cultural trends with the old Hebrew or Jewish religion cultures. This theme is crucial in many Israeli movies in that it helps explaining the cultural development of the Jewish society and the social activities happening in Israel which in the early times and society could be termed as moral decadency, which most were suggested to start from the integrating of western culture. These activities include, gay marriages, prostitution, increased robberies just to mention a few.
The general themes of most of these Israeli movies is all based on modern society issues which affect average peoples day to day life. These include topic like high school and college life, life while employed, marriage life or any other activities done each specific day. Most of these movies also contain a message or a story line with the major aim being to educated or enlighten the viewers, (Melnick, 2016). This is one of the social responsibility of the film industry to try motivate, encourage and advice the young generation to mold them into better laws abiding citizens.
Themes in Israel have diverse point of views in explaining similar or different point making the industry on of the most versatile. This is an advantage since they use different stylistic devices and tactics to drive themes home which can be similar of different. This is one reason that has led to the exponential growth of this industry especially in Israel.
Israeli film industry has had promising growth and a lot has been to support this growth. This includes establishing a department in the University of Jerusalem which is a reservoir of films and their history in Israel, (Hill & Kawashima, 2016). The Israel government has put recommendable effort in the film industry development but there are numerous factors undermining the demand of films in the country. The factors include,
Economic factors- these are have crucial bearing on the development and demand trends of the film industry in Israel. These factors include the high ticketing prices of cinemas and also high side costs involved. These side costs is the total amount of money spend besides that spend on the ticketing. The total cost of all the expenses to many is too much to make it a habit.
The cultural effects- even though the Jewish population are embracing the new cultures most of the populates are still hesitant in letting go of the ancient culture. Some have this notion in that going to cinemas and watching most of these films will water down their beliefs and may influence negatively the growing society especially the young population. This has negatively impacted the growth of Israel film industry.
Social factors- these factors are those that affect the main group of cinema and movie watchers As per statics the highest population of people who spend time in the cinema or watch movies are the teenagers and the youth. These are still dependent on their parent or guardians hence the times spend on the film, the typ...