Movie-Made Jews : : An American Tradition /

Movie-Made Jews : : An American Tradition / / Helene Meyers.

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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Meyers, Helene,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.) :; 12 b-w images
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Table of 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
  • About the Author

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