Theatrical Liberalism : Jews and Popular Entertainment in America
""Makes new sense of aspects of popular culture we have all grown up with and thought we knew only too well. Most bridges religious studies and theater, political theory and American studies, high criticism and middlebrow performance. Her book will help us see better how Jews and their Jew...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | ""Makes new sense of aspects of popular culture we have all grown up with and thought we knew only too well. Most bridges religious studies and theater, political theory and American studies, high criticism and middlebrow performance. Her book will help us see better how Jews and their Jewishness did not merely 'enter' American popular culture, but did so much to invent it.""--Jonathan Boyarin Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought, University of North Carolina For centuries, Jews were one of the few European cultures without any official public theatrical tra. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780814707982 |