Evolving images : Jewish Latin American cinema / edited by Nora Glickman and Ariana Huberman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glickman, Nora, editor.

Huberman, Ariana, editor.

Series:

Exploring Jewish arts and culture.

Exploring Jewish Arts and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews in the motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--Latin America--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Jews--Latin America--Identity.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2018.

Summary:

Jews have always played an important role in the generation of culture in Latin America, despite their relatively small numbers in the overall population. In the early days of cinema, they served as directors, producers, screenwriters, composers, and broadcasters. As Latin American societies became more religiously open in the later twentieth century, Jewish characters and themes began appearing in Latin American films and eventually achieved full inclusion. Landmark films by Jewish directors in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil, which are home to the largest and most influential Jewish communities in Latin America, have enjoyed critical and popular acclaim. Evolving Images is the first volume devoted to Jewish Latin American cinema, with fifteen critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel. The contributors address transnational and transcultural issues of Jewish life in Latin America, such as assimilation, integration, identity, and other aspects of life in the Diaspora. Their discussions of films with Jewish themes and characters show the rich diversity of Jewish cultures in Latin America, as well as how Jews, both real and fictional, interact among themselves and with other groups, raising the question of how much their ethnicity may be adulterated when adopting a combined identity as Jewish and Latin American. The book closes with a groundbreaking section on the affinities between Jewish themes in Hollywood and Latin American films, as well as a comprehensive filmography.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. Evolving Images: Jewish Latin American Cinema

Part I. Alternative Identities

1. Out of the Shadows: María Victoria Menis’s Camera Obscura

2. Intercultural Dilemmas: Performing Jewish Identities in Contemporary Mexican Cinema

3. Incidental Jewishness in the Films of Fabián Bielinsky

Part II. Memory and Violence

4. My German Friend and the Jewish Argentine/German “Mnemo-Historic“ Context

5. Dispersed Friendships: Jeanine Meerapfel’s The Girlfriend

6. Revisiting the AMIA Bombing in Marcos Carnevale’s Anita

Part III. New Themes

7. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation: A Jewish Journey in the Land of Soccer

8. Coming of Age in Two Films from Argentina and Uruguay

9. Waiting for the Messiah: The Super 8mm Films of Alberto Salomón

Part IV. Diasporas and Displacements

10. Geographic Isolation and Jewish Religious Revival in Two Contemporary Latin American Documentaries

11. Negotiating Jewish and Palestinian Identities in Latin American Cinema

12. From a Dream to Reality: Representations of Israel in Contemporary Jewish Latin American Film

13. On Becoming a Movie

Part V. Comparative Perspectives: North and South American Cinema

14. Jewish Urban Space in the Films of Daniel Burman and Woody Allen

15. Interfaith Relations between Jews and Gentiles in Argentine and US Cinema

Afterword. Film Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies

Jewish Latin American Filmography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-1427-X

OCLC:

1280945096