Movie-Made Jews : An American Tradition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyers, Helene.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Movie-Made Jews

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Movie-Made Jewsfocuses 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.

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ISBN:

1-9788-2190-5