Yiddish cinema : the drama of troubled communication / Jonah Corne and Monika Vrec?ar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corne, Jonah, 1977- author.

Series:

SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures, Yiddish--History.

Motion pictures, Yiddish.

Communication in motion pictures.

Mass media in motion pictures.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Summary:

Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: "The structure of communication is the infrastructure of human reality"

1 Powers of Music: A Little Letter to Mother (1938)

The Gesture of Listening to Music

Authority and the "Passive" Father

Transformative Absence

Epistolarity and Mame-loshn

Musical Reconnection

An Almost Happy Ending

2 Discourse and Dialogue: The Living Orphan (1939)

Discourse and Dialogue

Discontents of the Stage Couple

Newspaper Boy, Messenger Boy

Communicative Revolutions

The Mother in Charge

3 The Mass Media Family: Kol Nidre (1939)

The Mass Media Family

Disruptions and Promises of Radio

The Scandal of the Speaking Body and the Text of Muteness

Returning to Tradition

4 The Battle of the Books: Tevye (1939)

The Battle of the Books

The Battle of the "Fathers"

Excommunication and the Family Organism

Sovereign Performatives and Insurrectionary Speech

Textual Homeland and the Consolations of Exile

5 Motherhood, Migration, and the Asylum: Where Is My Child? (1937)

Migration and Motherhood

Crisis of Disconnection

Performative Abuse

Return of the Repressed

Letter Carrier and Whistleblower

Lulling a Photograph

(Ex)Communication in the Asylum

Illicit Relationality

Rescue and Reconfiguration

6 "Silence which is communication": Motel the Operator (1939)

"Silence which is communication" and Turning

Marx and the Talmud

Broken Strike

The Abandoned Mother and Phantasmatic Communication

Responsibility to the Other: Levinas and Buber

Makeshift Identity and Parental Rights

The Silent Sheliekh and the Two Fathers

7 Groundlessness I (The Nation against the Jew): The Wandering Jew (1933)

Groundlessness

Censorship, Art, and Jewishness

Antisemitism, Totalitarianism, and the Abandonment of Responsibility

Nazi Communication: Rallies and Radio

Unplugged: Nazi Exclusionary Measures and Book Burning

The Jewish Time Bias

8 Groundlessness II (Among the DPs): Long Is the Road (1948)

Displacement, Objectification, Cohabitation

Subjectifying Tactics

Dissolution of Ground

Leaping into the Abyss

Bureaucratic Apparatus in and beyond the Camps

Shelter in the Other

A Call to All to Find the One

Regrounding

9 Mediating the Mystical: The Dybbuk (1937)

Mediating the Mystical

Those Who Are to Hear and Those Who Are Not to Hear

Memory and Forgetting

Silence and Music

The Wind

Struggles of the Zaddik

Dialogue and Unio Mystica

Coda

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781438494197

143849419X

OCLC:

1394117562