{"product_id":"reel-kabbalah-brian-ogren-9781978840249","title":"Reel Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema","description":"\u003ci\u003eReel Kabbalah: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eJewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema​ \u003c\/i\u003estudies the ways in which fictional film in the first decade of the twenty-first century represents the esoteric Jewish speculative traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism. It examines the textual and conceptual traditions behind five important cinematic representations -- \u003ci\u003ePi \u003c\/i\u003e(1998), \u003ci\u003eUshpizin \u003c\/i\u003e(2004), \u003ci\u003eBee Season \u003c\/i\u003e(2005), \u003ci\u003eThe Secrets \u003c\/i\u003e(2007), and \u003ci\u003eA Serious Man \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) -- and it considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism. Brian Ogren transform our understanding of reception history by focusing on how cinema has altered perceptions of Jewish mysticism. In showing how the Jewish speculative traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism have been able to affect mass consumed cinematic portrayals of ultimate Truth, this book sheds light on the New Age, pop-cultural dialectic of the particular within the universal and of the universal within the particular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Ogren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978840241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978840249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Brian Ogren","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45934105886975,"sku":"9781978840249","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b43f5e5a-2144-476a-be6a-532346c9de3d.jpg?v=1721790362","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reel-kabbalah-brian-ogren-9781978840249","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}