Boaz Hagin, PhD

The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University


Boaz Hagin is chair of the undergraduate and graduate film studies programs at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema (2010), co-author with Thomas Elsaesser of Memory, Trauma, and Fantasy in American Cinema (2012), and co-editor of Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic (2011) and Deeper Than Oblivion: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema (2013). He is co-editor of the Depth of Field book series published by the Steve Tisch School with Am Oved and member of the editorial board of the SCMS's Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. His articles appear in Screen, Journal of Film and Video, New Review of Film and Television Studies, GLQ, Cinema Journal, Camera Obscura, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Psychoanalyse im Widerspruch.

Publications:

Books

Raz Yosef and Boaz Hagin (eds.), Deeper Than Oblivion: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).

Thomas Elsaesser and Boaz Hagin, Memory, Trauma, and Fantasy in American Cinema (Ra’anana: Open University of Israel, 2012).

Boaz Hagin, Sandra Meiri, Raz Yosef and Anat Zanger (eds.), Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011).

Boaz Hagin, Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).


Articles and Book Chapters

Boaz Hagin, “‘The Catskill Mountains with Arabs’: Pluralizing the Meanings of Melville Shavelson’s Cast a Giant Shadow (1966),” Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal 6.1 (in press).

Boaz Hagin, “Margot Klausner and the Pioneering of Israeli cinema,” Screen 59.2 (2018): 158-175. Full text (pdf/html)

Boaz Hagin and Roy Wagner, “The Occupation-Image: A Deleuzian Analysis of Videos from the Israeli Occupation of Palestine,” Journal of Film and Video 66.4 (2014): 19-33.

Boaz Hagin, “The Psychological Thriller and the Family Drama: On Ethics and Terrorism in Frozen Days,” Mikkan 13 (2013): 124-144.

Boaz Hagin, “Inverted Identification: Bergson and Phenomenology in Deleuze’s Cinema Books,” New Review of Film and Television Studies 11.3 (2013): 262-287.

Boaz Hagin, “‘Our Traumas’: Terrorism, Tradition, and Mind Games in Frozen Days,” Raz Yosef and Boaz Hagin (editors), Deeper Than Oblivion: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), 198-221.

Boaz Hagin and Raz Yosef, “Sweet on the Inside: Trauma, Memory, and Israeli Cinema,” Raz Yosef and Boaz Hagin (editors), Deeper Than Oblivion: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), 1-20.

Gal Raz, Boaz Hagin, and Talma Hendler, “E-Motion Pictures of the Brain: Recursive Paths between Affective Neuroscience and Film Studies,” Arthur P. Shimamura (editor), Psychocinematics: Exploring Cognition at the Movies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 285-313.

Raz Yosef and Boaz Hagin, “Israeli Cinema,” Oxford Bibliographies Online (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Boaz Hagin and Raz Yosef, “Festival Exoticism: The Israeli Queer Film in a Global Context,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 18.1 (2012): 161-178.

Boaz Hagin, “Killed Because of Lousy Ratings: The Hollywood History of Snuff,” Journal of Popular Film and Television 38.1 (January-March 2010): 44-51.

Boaz Hagin, “Examples in Theory: Interpassive Illustrations and Celluloid Fetishism,” Cinema Journal 48.1 (Fall 2008): 3-26.

Boaz Hagin, “Male Weeping as Performative: The Crying Mossad Assassin in Walk on Water,” Camera Obscura 68, 23.2 (September 2008): 103-139.

Boaz Hagin, “Civilized Warriors and Primitive Cinema: Freud’s Denial-of-Death in Fin-de-Siècle Spectacles of Mortality.” Psychoanalyse im Widerspruch 30 (2003): 45-61. Full text (pdf)

Contact:

Email:  bhagin@post.tau.ac.il or Boaz.Hagin@gmail.com

Address: The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University, P.O. Box 39040, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel