Movie-made Jews : an American tradition / Helene Meyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyers, Helene, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews in the motion picture industry.

Jews in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Movie-Made Jews focuses 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introduction: Making Jews Onscreen and Off

2. Looking at Antisemites and Jews

3. Looking at the Shoah from a Distance

4. Focusing on Assimilation and Its Discontents

5. Assertively Jewish Onscreen

6. Queering the Jewish Gaze

7. Cinematic Alliances

8. Epilogue: Cinematic Continuity and Change through a Feminist Lens

Acknowledgments

Filmography

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781978821927

1978821921

OCLC:

1263340083