ISBN:
148750814X
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9781487508142
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 194 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Year of publication:
2021
Series Statement:
Latinoamericana
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Pridgeon, Stephanie, 1986- Revolutionary vision
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Pridgeon, Stephanie, 1986 - Revolutionary visions
DDC:
791.43/65299240809046
Keywords:
Jews in motion pictures
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Motion pictures History
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Revolutions History 20th century
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Jews
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Jews in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Revolutions
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Jews ; Political activity ; Latin America
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Jews ; Latin America ; Migrations ; History ; 20th century
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Revolutions ; Latin America ; History ; 20th century
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Motion pictures ; Latin America ; History ; 20th century
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Jewish motion picture producers and directors ; Latin America
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Jews in motion pictures
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Jews ; Latin America ; History ; 20th century
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Christianity and other religions ; Judaism
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Judaism ; Relations ; Christianity
;
History
;
Latin America History 20th century
;
Latin America
;
Latin America
Abstract:
Introduction: "A place in the economy of being": revolutionary visions -- 1. Saintly politics: Christianity, revolution, and Jews -- 2. Here we are to build a nation: Jewish nation: Jewish immigrants to early twentieth-century Latin America -- 3. Poner el cuerpo femenino judío: Jewish women's bodies and revolutionary movement -- 4. Lost embraces: Jewish parent-child relationships and 1970s politics -- Epilogue: what sort of affinity? Conclusions and areas for future study.
Abstract:
"Revolutionary Visions examines recent cinematic depictions of Jewish involvement in 1960s and 1970s revolutionary movements in Latin America. In order to explore the topic, the book bridges critical theory on religion, politics, and hegemony from regional Latin American, national, and global perspectives. Placing these theories in dialogue with recent films, the author asks the following questions: How did revolutionary commitment change Jewish community and families in twentieth-century Latin America? How did Jews contribute to revolutionary causes and what is the place of Jews in the legacies of revolutionary movements? How is film used to project self-representations of Jewish communities in the national project for a mainstream audience? Jewish involvement in revolutionary movements is rife with contradictions. On the one hand, it was a natural progression of patterns of political participation, based on the ideological affinities shared between Socialist movements and Marxist revolutionary politics. On the other hand, involvement in revolutionary politics would also upset the status quo of Jewish communities due to the extreme nature of revolutionary practices (e.g. guerrilla warfare), revolutionary groups' alignment with Palestine, and the assimilation into non-Jewish culture that revolutionary involvement often entailed. These contradictions between Jewish self-identification and revolutionary activity continue to confound cultural understandings of the points of contact between identities and political affinities. In this way, Revolutionary Visions contributes to timely debates within cultural studies surrounding identities and politics."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index
