Blessings beyond the binary : Transparent and the queer Jewish family / edited by Nora Rubel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubel, Nora, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families on television.

Jews on television.

Sexual minorities on television.

Trans people in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Transparent made history as the first television show to feature a transgender character in the main role, as the first streaming series to win the Golden Globe for Best Television Series, and as, in the words of journalist Debra Nussbaum Cohen, “the Jewiest show ever.” No television show in history has depicted the lives of American Jews with as much attention to Jewish rituals, quirks, or culture. And no series has portrayed issues of gender and sexuality alongside Judaism with such nuance and depth, making Transparent a landmark series in the history of television. Blessings beyond the Binary brings together leading scholars to analyze and offer commentary on what scholar Josh Lambert calls “the most important work of Jewish culture of the century so far.” The book explores the show’s depiction of Jewish life, religion, and history, as well as Transparent’s scandals and criticisms and how it fits into and diverges from today’s transgender and queer politics. The first book to focus on Transparent, Blessings beyond the Binary offers a rich analysis of the groundbreaking series and its connections to contemporary queer, trans, and Jewish life.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction / Nora Rubel and Brett Krutzsch

Part I. Transforming Jews on Television

1. Rebooting Jewish Television / Josh Lambert

2. "Happy Yom Kippur": Televising and Translating Atonement / Nora Rubel

3. Melancholy and Joy: Jewish Nomadism and Transparent / Ranen Omer-Sherman

4. The Historiography of Transparent / Martin Shuster

Part II. Performing Judaism and Jewish Identity

5. Dancing Out the Torah: Ritual, Bodies, and Transitions in Transparent / Jodi Eichler-Levine

6. From Oy to Hineni: Language and Transition in Transparent / Sarah Bunin Benor

7. Pfefferman's Complaint: Transparent and the Tenacity of Jewish Familial Stereotypes / Jarrod Tanny

8. The Gentile, the Demonic, and Collapsing Binaries in Transparent / Shaul Magid

Part III. Transgressing and Queering Gender

9. Nostalgia, Queer Time, and the Ethnic in Transparent / Jennifer Glaser

10. Don't All Have Your Family: The Critique of Religion in Transparent / Kathryn Lofton

11. From Beautiful Rabbi to Queer Kohenet: Gender and Judaism in and beyond Transparent / Shari Rabin

Part IV. Queering Jewish and Transgender History: Three Perspectives on Transparent's Use of the Holocaust

12. Queer Temporality in Trans Times: Connection and Belonging in Transparent's Second Season / Joshua Falek

13. Queering the Holocaust: Intersecting Jewish and Transgender Identities in Transparent / Kerstin Steitz

14. Making Jewishness Transparent and Transparent Jew-ish / Marilyn Reizbaum

Part V. Concluding and Transitioning

15. Run from Your Parent's House: Transfeminism and Abraham's Blessing / Slava Greenberg

16. La-La-Lech-Lecha: Transparent's Musical Finale / Warren Hoffman

Conclusion / Brett Krutzsch

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-9788-3882-4

OCLC:

1451798177