Anat

Zanger

Tel Aviv University

Rebell Family Term Fellowship

Research Topic

Traveling Shot: A Voyage to Jerusalem in Moving Images

Bio

Anat Zanger is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Film and Television and Chair of the MA Program in Film Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include Israeli cinema, mythology, collective memory, intertextuality, and space and landscape. She is the author of Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguises (2006) and is currently completing a book on space in Israeli film. Zanger will study the cinematic journeys to and from Jerusalem as performed by cine-travelers.

Fellowship

2011–2012

Travel Facts, Travel Fictions, and the Performance of Jewish Identity

Applying an interdisciplinary approach to the richness and diversity of travel writing.

2015–2016

Jews Beyond Reason: Exploring Emotion, the Unconscious, and Other Dimensions of Jews' Inner Lives

Exploring aspects of internal life that lie beyond reason—emotions and feelings, the unconscious, sensation, imagination, impulse, intuition, and the nonrational dimensions of reason itself.