Lecturers Page Dr. Itay Harlap

Dr. Itay Harlap

Itay Harlap is a lecturer at Sapir Academic College, and teaches at Tel Aviv University. Harlap's publications include Television Drama in Israel: Identities in Post-TV Culture (Bloomsbury, 2017), and papers on Israeli television in various academic journals, among them GLQ, Critical Studies in Television, and Jewish Film & New Media. Itay is among the founders and organizers of the Fiktzia annual conference on Israeli television studies.

Areas of interest and Teaching

Research

Awards

Publications

Books

With Yael Munk and Orna Lavie Flint (Eds.) Stories in the Box: Israeli Television Drama. Am Oved and Tel Aviv University, Forthcoming

Television Drama in Israel: Identities in Post-TV Culture. New York: Bloomsburry, 2016

The Israeli Post-Television: Trauma and Victimhood in Israeli Drama. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2016 [in Hebrew]
Forthcoming

Articles
"Old Viewer, New Media: The New Television Drama and the Old Body," Gachliliyot, Journal of Film and Television, 2 (Forthcoming).

“Mistakes in the Sun: Reading the Television Drama Indian in the Sun (Indiani BaShemesh).” Mikan: Journal for Literary Studies, 17 (2017): 319-339 [in Hebrew]

“The New Normative: Gay Fatherhood on Israeli Television," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 23.4 (2017): 559-587.

“Bad Television/Good (Post)Television: Reading the Israeli Television Miniseries Nevelot [Eagles]”. Critical Studies in Television 11.1 (2016): 1-18.

"Drama in Three Parts (and Prolog): Israeli Television Drama's Historiography," Misgarot Media 12 (2014): 29-52. [in Hebrew]

"Serial Trauma: Seriality and Post-Trauma in the Israeli Television Drama Parashat Ha-Shavu’a," Jewish Film & New Media 2 (2014): 166-189. (Revised extended version of "Waltz of the week")

"The Victimizer of Good Will: Anxiety, Denial, and Guilt in the Television Serial Parashat Ha-Shavu’a". Mikan: Journal for Literary Studies. 13 (2013): 84-105. [in Hebrew].

"Waltz of the week: Textual Reading the Second Season of Parashat Hashavua [weekly Torah portion‏‏‏‏]," Identities in Transition in Israeli Culture, Open University Press, 2013. 381-403. [in Hebrew].

"It's not TV, it's Be-Tipul: Discussing the Quality Discourse of Be-Tipul [In Treatment]." Misgarot Media 6 (2011): 1-30. [in Hebrew]

Presentations

2019

"Dudu What is the Holocaust?": Nostalgia and Satire in the Television Show "Hayehudim Baim" (The Jews are Coming). Fiktzya The 9th Conference of TV Studies of the Film and Television Department, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University

2018

"The Mooc and I: First Insights from Preparing an Online Course", Academic Research Conference - Day of Research, Creation and Teaching, Sapir Academic College, Israel


"Meet Your Maker: Creators and Audiences in Post-Television Culture", Fiktzya The 8th Conference of TV Studies of the Film and Television Department, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University (with Ariel Avissar)

‘The Death of the Author will be Televised’: Televisual Metaphors of the Contemporary Creator-Audience Relationship in The OA, 13 Reasons Why and Westworld" SCMS Conference, Toronto, Canada (With Ariel Avisar)

2017
"New Media, Old Viewers: Representations of Elderly Television Viewers on Contemporary Israeli Drama," Israel Communication Association – 21st Annual Conference.

2016
[Workshop] Growing Old: Post Utopian Personhood in Israeli Cultural Production. University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

"Bringing Back the National: The Male Warrior in Treatment," 10th Annual NECS Conference, Potsdam, Germany.

“Black Box: Zaguri Empire and Post TV," Fiktzya The 6th Conference of TV Studies of the Film and Television Department, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University.

"It's not TV, it's Be-Tipul: Discussing the Discourse of Quality in the Israeli Version of In Treatment." SCMS Conference, Atlanta, USA.

2015

"The New Normative: Gay Fatherhood on Israeli Television,” SCMS Conference, Montreal, Canada.

“Mistakes in the Sun: Discussing the Television Drama Indian in the Sun (Indiani Bashemesh)” Fiktzya The 5th Conference of TV Studies of the Film and Television Department, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University.

2014

"From the Consensus of One Channel to the Multiple Identities of Post-Television: Israeli Drama's Historiography," The IAFOR North American Conference on Media, Communication and Culture, Providence, RI, USA.

“From ‘before the TV' to post-TV: Israeli Drama's Historiography. Fiktzya The 4th Conference of TV Studies of the Film and Television Department, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University.
2013

“Irregular Television: The Israeli Television Serial Nevelot and the TVIII Spectator” Film and Media 2013: The Pleasures of the Spectacle - The Third Annual London Film and Media Conference. London, England.

“The New Normative People: Gay Fatherhood in Israeli Television” Pictures of family life, The 2ed Conference of The Program in Research of Child and Youth Culture, Tel Aviv University.

2011

"Killing the Queer Potential: "Old Age, Zionism and queer in Nevelot [Bastards]" Sex Acher, The 11TH Israeli Annual Conference for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory, Tel Aviv University.

"From Novel to Nevelot: Adaptation and Meaning in Nevelot [Bastards] minidrama," Israel Communication Association - 15th Annual Conference.

"Ideology and Fantasy in Parashat Hashavua [Weekly Torah Portion]‏‏‏ Fiktzya: Perspectives on Israeli TV Fiction, The 1st Conference of TV Studies of the Film and Television Department, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University.

2010

"Queer as Dad: Representations of Gay Fatherhood in Popular Culture," Sex Acher, The 10th Israeli Annual Conference for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

2009

"Quality Treatment: Discussing the Quality Discourse of Be-Tipul [in Treatment]," Israel Communication Association - 13th Annual Conference.

"Trauma of the Week: Discussing the Second season of Parashat Hashavua [Weekly Torah Portion‏‏‏‏]," Identities in Transition in Israeli Culture, The Open University of Israel, Ra’anana, Israel

2007

"Israel Needs Therapy: Yadin’s Character in the Television Series BeTipul (In Therapy)," Sex Acher, The 7TH Israeli Annual Conference for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory, Tel Aviv University.

2006

"Arrested (for) Heterosexuality: Arrested Development as a Queer and Hybrid Text," Sex Acher, The 6TH Israeli Annual Conference for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory, Tel Aviv University

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