Movie-Made Jews : An American Tradition /

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Movie-Made Jews focuses on a rich, usable American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition includes fiction and documentary films that make Jews through antisemitism, Holocaust indirection, and discontent with assimilation. It prominently features the unapologetic assertion of Jewishness, queerne...

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Autor principal: Meyers, Helene (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Jews in motion pictures.
Jews in the motion picture industry.
Jews > United States > Identity.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
American Jewish, cinema, movies, fiction, antisemitism, Holocaust, assimilation, immigrant, queer, race, religion, film, film studies, media studies, communications, postwar media, LGBTQ, stereotypical roles, jazz, jazz singers, pawnbrokers, whiteness, racism, antisemites, Zion, School Ties, Liberty Heights, feminism.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction: Making Jews Onscreen and Off
  • 2. Looking at Antisemites and Jews
  • 3. Looking at the Shoah from a Distance
  • 4. Focusing on Assimilation and Its Discontents
  • 5. Assertively Jewish Onscreen
  • 6. Queering the Jewish Gaze
  • 7. Cinematic Alliances
  • 8. Epilogue: Cinematic Continuity and Change through a Feminist Lens
  • Acknowledgments
  • Filmography
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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