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Movie-Made Jews : An American Tradition
Author
Title
Movie-Made Jews : An American Tradition / Helene Meyers.
ISBN
9781978821927
Publication
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (252 p.) : 12 b-w images
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Notes
In English.
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Summary
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, queerness, and alliances across race and religion. Author Helene Meyers shows that as we go to our local theater, attend a Jewish film festival, play a DVD, watch streaming videos, Jewishness becomes part of the multicultural mosaic rather than collapsing into a generic whiteness or being represented as a life apart. This engagingly-written book demonstrates that a Jewish movie is neither just a movie nor for Jews only. With incisive analysis, Movie-Made Jews challenges the assumption that American Jewish cinema is a cinema of impoverishment and assimilation. While it's a truism that Jews make movies, this book brings into focus the diverse ways movies make Jews.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 21, 2022
Contents
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
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