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Politicians in a nutshell: four-minute documentary portraits of three Israeli leaders
- Source :
- Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2024
- Publisher :
- Springer Nature, 2024.
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Abstract
- Abstract In 2011, a leading investigative television program in Israel launched a series of short documentaries entitled “Four Minutes,” each dedicated to an Israeli political leader. This paper focuses on three of these documentaries, dedicated to then-president Shimon Peres; then-Knesset member Tzipi Livni, who 2 years earlier had won the elections but failed to form a government, and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the founder of the Ultra-Orthodox Sephardi “Shas” party. Our goal is to outline the means by which these films construct and deliver their condensed messages, and to explore how, despite the rigid constraints of the format, they create a cohesive and complex portrait of these political figures and their strategic agendas. We analyze how the films’ multimodal language is used to reflect the messages promoted by each of the figures as well as by the filmmakers themselves.
- Subjects :
- History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 26629992
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.9eca3fce3299411f9c0469c1ff49b5f4
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02888-8