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Movie-Made Jews

An American Tradition
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Description

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.

Product Details

PublisherRutgers University Press
Publish DateSeptember 17, 2021
Pages236
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781978821880
Dimensions8.9 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches | 0.8 pounds

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Too Jewish for Hollywood? ​An excerpt from the book Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition"-- "The Revealer"

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