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Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition
Rutgers University Press, 2021 eISBN: 978-1-9788-2192-7 | Cloth: 978-1-9788-2189-7 | Paper: 978-1-9788-2188-0 Library of Congress Classification PN1995.9.J46M49 2021 Dewey Decimal Classification 791.436529924
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: American Tradition | Identity | Jewish Studies | Jews in motion pictures | Jews in the motion picture industry See other titles from Rutgers University Press |
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Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
Rutgers University Press, 2021
eISBN: 978-1-9788-2192-7
Cloth: 978-1-9788-2189-7
Paper: 978-1-9788-2188-0
eISBN: 978-1-9788-2192-7
Cloth: 978-1-9788-2189-7
Paper: 978-1-9788-2188-0
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.
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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
