'You Should See Yourself' : : Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture /

'You Should See Yourself' : : Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture / / Vincent Brook.

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The past few decades have seen a remarkable surge in Jewish influences on American culture. Entertainers and artists such as Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Allegra Goodman, and Tony Kushner have heralded new waves of television, film, literature, and theater; a major klezmer revival is under way; bag...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Brook, Vincent,
MitwirkendeR:
Brook, Vincent,
Burstein, Janet Handler,
Byers, Michele,
Cohen, Judah M.,
Edelman, Marsha Bryan,
Fisher, James,
Itzkovitz, Daniel,
Johnston, Ruth D.,
Krieger, Rosalin,
Lewis, Jan,
Moore, Deborah Dash,
Moore, MacDonald,
Most, Andrea,
Rossen, Rebecca,
Weber, Donald,
Weisberg, Ruth,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 45
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Seeing Isn’t Believing
  • Literature
  • Introduction
  • Re-imagining the Jew’s Body: From Self-Loathing to “Grepts”
  • Recalling “Home” from Beneath the Shadow of the Holocaust: American Jewish Women Writers of the New Wave
  • Theater
  • Introduction
  • “Your World Is Very Different from Mine”: Troubling Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Theater
  • Tony Kushner’s Metaphorical Jew
  • Music
  • Introduction
  • Exploring the Postmodern Landscape of Jewish Music
  • Continuity, Creativity, and Conflict: The Ongoing Search for “Jewish” Music
  • Dance
  • Introduction
  • The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity in Postmodern Dance
  • Painting and Photography
  • Introduction
  • Between Exile and Irony: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Jewish Modes of Thought
  • Observant Jews and the Photographic Arena of Looks
  • Film
  • Introduction
  • Joke-Work: The Construction of Jewish Postmodern Identity in Contemporary Theory and American Film
  • They All Are Jews
  • Stand-up Comedy
  • Introduction
  • Genealogies of Jewish Stand-up: Looking Back, Moving Beyond
  • Television
  • Introduction
  • Something Old Is New Again? Postmodern Jewishness in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, and The O.C.
  • “Y’all Killed Him, We Didn’t!” Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show
  • Contributors
  • Index

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