Hidden in plain sight : Jews and Jewishness in British film, television, and popular culture / edited by Nathan Abrams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abrams, Nathan, editor.

Series:

Cultural expressions of World War II

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews in motion pictures.

Jews on television.

Jews in popular culture--Great Britain.

Jews in popular culture.

Motion pictures, British--Social aspects.

Motion pictures, British.

Television programs--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Television programs.

Television programs--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

vii, 284 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.

Summary:

The first collection of its kind on this subject, this book brings together a range of original essays that address different aspects of the role and presence of Jews and Jewishness in British film and television from the interwar period to the present, constructing a historical overview of the Jewish contribution to British film and television, which has not always been sufficiently acknowledged, Each chapter presents a case study reflective of the specific Jewish experience as well as its particularly British context, with cultural representations of how Jews responded to events from the 1930s and '40s, including World War II, the Holocaust, and a legacy of antisemitism, through to the new millennium. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Nathan Abrams

"Awaiting, with some anxiety" : the Jewish response to Jew Suss (1934) in 1930s Britain / Gil Toffell

An anti-Nazi special relationship : British writing, Hollywood filmmaking, and The mortal storm (1940) / Phyllis Lassner and Alexis Pogorelskin

Mr. Emmanuel (1944) : a belated British film about Nazi antisemitism / Lawrence Baron

Jewish questions lurking in Peeping Tom (1960) / Michael Berkowitz

"You don't cure a problem by sweeping it under the carpet" : Jews, sitcoms, and race relations in 1960s Britain / Gavin Schaffer

From the evacuees to Grandma's house : class, sexuality, and Jewish identity on British television, 1975-2012 / Rachel Garfield

Peckhlach : Mike Leigh's British Jewish soul / Donald Weber

From pig farmer to infidel : hidden identities, diasporic infertility, and transethnic kinship in contemporary British Jewish cinema / Claudia Sternberg

On the threshold : British Jewish femininity in Suzie Gold (2004) / Michele Byers

Christmas trees and Hanukkah bushes : the "emancipation contract" in the contemporary British television dramas Hebburn and Friday night dinner / Sue Vice

Love and betrayal : politicized romance in Peter Kosminsky's The promise (2011) / Nir Cohen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810132825

0810132826

9780810132832

0810132834

OCLC:

922728989