Movie-Made Jews

An American Tradition

Helene Meyers (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2189-7 (ISBN)

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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, as well as through the unapologetic assertion of Jewishness, queerness, and alliances across race and religion.

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.

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.

1 Introduction: Making Jews Onscreen and Off

2 Looking at Antisemites and Jews

Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)

School Ties (1992)

The Believer (2001)

Protocols of Zion (2005)

3 Looking at the Shoah from a Distance

The Pawnbroker (1964)

Enemies, A Love Story (1989)

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Barton Fink (1991) and A Serious Man (2009)

4 Focusing on Assimilation and Its Discontents

The Way We Were (1973)

Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)

Crossing Delancey (1988)

Avalon (1990) and Liberty Heights (1999)

5 Assertively Jewish Onscreen

Whatever Works (2009)

Fading Gigolo (2013)

Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish (2010)

Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)

Wish I Was Here (2014)

6 Queering the Jewish Gaze

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) and Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)

The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) and Milk (2008)

Treyf (1998)

Trembling Before G-d (2001)

Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School (2005)

7 Cinematic Alliances

Heart of Stone (2009)

Crime after Crime (2011)

Zebrahead (1992)

Arranged (2007)

David (2011)

8 Epilogue: Cinematic Continuity and Change through a Feminist Lens

93Queen (2018)

RBG (2018)

Acknowledgments

Filmography

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2021
Zusatzinfo	12 b-w images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-9788-2189-1 / 1978821891
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2189-7 / 9781978821897
Zustand	Neuware