Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition by Meyers, Helene

Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781978821880)

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Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition by Meyers, Helene

Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition

$37.95
Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition by Meyers, Helene

Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition

$37.95
Format: Paperback
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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.


Author: Helene Meyers
ISBN-10: 1978821883
ISBN-13: 9781978821880
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2021
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
By Helene Meyers
By Helene Meyers
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HELENE MEYERS is Professor of English and McManis University Chair at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. She is the author of Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience, Reading Michael Chabon, and Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness.

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