ISBN:
9781978821880
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9781978821897
Language:
English
Pages:
224 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2021
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
791.43/6529924
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Jews in motion pictures
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Jews in the motion picture industry
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Jews Identity
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Motion pictures History 20th century
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Motion pictures History 21st century
Abstract:
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
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)
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In English
