First person Jewish / Alisa S. Lebow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lebow, Alisa.

Series:

Visible evidence ; v. 22.

Visible evidence ; v. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews in motion pictures.

Jewish motion picture producers and directors.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Autobiography.

Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alisa S. Lebow examines films from Jewish artists to reveal how the postmodern impulse to turn the lens inward intersects provocatively (and at times unwittingly) with historical tropes and stereotypes of the Jew. Using a multidisciplinary approach Lebow shows how this form of self-expression is challenging both autobiography and documentary and, in the process, changing the art of cinema and recording the cultural shifts of our time.

Contents:

1. Memory Once Removed: indirect memory and transitive autobiography in Chantal Akerman's D'Est

2. Reframing the Jewish family

3. A treyf autocritique of autobiography

4. Ambivalence and ambiguity in queer Jewish subjectivity

Conclusion: a limit case for Jewish autoethnography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5643-6

OCLC:

476167468