Description
Golda (2023) by Guy Nativ relates the personal experience of Israel’s fourth and only female prime minister, Golda Meir (Helen Mirren), as she navigated the 19-day Yom Kippur War of 1973 while she was being treated for cancer. The film was produced prior to the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel. Meir’s life was previously portrayed in Alan Gibson’s A Woman Called Golda starring Ingrid Bergman. This paper uses Jennifer Barker’s (2009) research on tactility in film to describe the many techniques Nativ used to help audiences literally feel Meir’s experience of leadership during the war. Tactility can be achieved through close-ups, camera movements, textures, touch, lights, colour, sound, and other possibilities. In Golda, tactility was achieved through tight close-ups of body parts, hands and touch, homeyness or informality, blood, smoking, direct eye contact between characters, sharp sounds and dissonant music, swirling camera movements, references to the gut or visceral language, dead bodies, and bodily shaking. One reviewer described the film as “quietly affecting”. The paper offers more insight into filmic techniques that touch audiences.Additional information
The abstract was peer reviewed. Please see the attached documents with the abstract's review and acceptance for the conference.| Period | 27 Nov 2024 |
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| Event title | Australia and New Zealand Communication Association 2024 : Pause |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Melbourne, Australia, VictoriaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |