Why Harry Met Sally : : Subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian Power, and the Rhetoric of Modern Love / / Joshua Louis Moss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Moss, Joshua Louis,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

From immigrant ghetto love stories such as The Cohens and the Kellys (1926), through romantic comedies including Meet the Parents (2000) and Knocked Up (2007), to television series such as Transparent (2014–), Jewish-Christian couplings have been a staple of popular culture for over a century. In th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Sally’s Orgasm
• Part One the first wave: the mouse-mountains of modernity (1905–1934)
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Disraeli’s Page performative jewishness in the public sphere
• Chapter 2 Kafka’s Ape literary modernism, jewish animality, and the crisis of the new cosmopolitanism
• Chapter 3 Abie’s Irish Rose immigrant couplings, utopian multiculturalism, and the early american film industry
• Part Two the second wave: erotic schlemiels of the counterculture (1967–1980)
• Introduction
• Chapter 4 Benjamin’s Cross israel, new hollywood, and the jewish transgressive (1947–1967)
• Chapter 5. Portnoy’s Monkey: Postwar Literature, Stand-Up Comedy, and the Emergence of the Carnal Jew (1955–1969)
• Chapter 6 Katie’s Typewriter hollywood romance, historical rewrite, and the subversive sexuality of the counterculture (1967–1980)
• Part Three the third wave: global fockers at the millennium (1993–2007)
• Introduction
• Chapter 7 Spiegelman’s Frog coded jewish metamorph and christian witnessing (1978–1992)
• Chapter 8 Seinfeld’s Mailman global television and the wandering sitcom (1993–2000)
• Conclusion Plato’s Retweet
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index