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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (252 p.) : 12 b-w imagesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781978821927
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436529924 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.

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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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