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Professor teaches in the The School of Film and Television at the Faculty of Arts at Tel Aviv University. He was a member of the Israeli Film Council and served as the chairman of the Second Authority – the regulator of
commercial broadcasting in Israel. Ilan Avisar is the author of several books and numerous articles, including The Israeli Scene – Political Criticism and the Politics of Anti-Zionism, in: A.H. Rosenfeld (ed.), Resurgent Antisemitism (2013), Screening The Holocaust: Cinema’s Images Of The Unimaginable (1988), Visions of Israel: Israeli Filmmakers and Images of The Jewish State (1997, Rpt. 2002), Film Art: The Techniques And Poetics of Cinematic Expression (1995, in Hebrew), and The Israeli Scene: Language, Cinema, Discourse
(2005, in Hebrew).
Professor, his research spans the disciplines of cultural studies, media studies, sociology and anthropology of daily experience. Habilitation: “Auschwitz in the Internet. The Representations of the Holocaust in Popular Culture”. He is focused on the relations between common sense, popular culture and cognition. Last articles refer to the representations of Israel on Facebook, the reception of the Holocaust on social media, and to the contemporary films treated as the cultural generators of (colloquial) myths.