The "Jew" in Cinema
Title | The "Jew" in Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Omer Bartov |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2005-01-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780253217455 |
Explores cinematic representations of the "Jew" from film's early days to the present.
The New Jew in Film
Title | The New Jew in Film PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Abrams |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2012-03-12 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0813553431 |
Jewish film characters have existed almost as long as the medium itself. But around 1990, films about Jews and their representation in cinema multiplied and took on new forms, marking a significant departure from the past. With a fresh generation of Jewish filmmakers, writers, and actors at work, contemporary cinemas have been depicting a multiplicity of new variants, including tough Jews; brutish Jews; gay and lesbian Jews; Jewish cowboys, skinheads, and superheroes; and even Jews in space. The New Jew in Film is grounded in the study of over three hundred films from Hollywood and beyond. Nathan Abrams explores these new and changing depictions of Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism, providing a wider, more representative picture of this transformation. In this compelling, surprising, and provocative book, chapters explore masculinity, femininity, passivity, agency, and religion in addition to a departure into new territory—including bathrooms and food. Abrams’s concern is to reveal how the representation of the Jew is used to convey confidence or anxieties about Jewish identity and history as well as questions of racial, sexual, and gender politics. In doing so, he provides a welcome overview of important Jewish films produced globally over the past twenty years.
The Jew in American Cinema
Title | The Jew in American Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Erens |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 1988-08-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780253204936 |
Examples range from film's early days to the present, from Europe, Israel, and the United States.
Movie-Made Jews
Title | Movie-Made Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Helene Meyers |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2021-09-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1978821905 |
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.
The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema
Title | The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Baron |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures |
ISBN | 9781611682083 |
An imprint of University of New England.
Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema
Title | Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Prof. Deborah A. Starr |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2020-09-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520976126 |
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this book, Deborah A. Starr recuperates the work of Togo Mizrahi, a pioneer of Egyptian cinema. Mizrahi, an Egyptian Jew with Italian nationality, established himself as a prolific director of popular comedies and musicals in the 1930s and 1940s. As a studio owner and producer, Mizrahi promoted the idea that developing a local cinema industry was a project of national importance. Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema integrates film analysis with film history to tease out the cultural and political implications of Mizrahi’s work. His movies, Starr argues, subvert dominant notions of race, gender, and nationality through their playful—and queer—use of masquerade and mistaken identity. Taken together, Mizrahi’s films offer a hopeful vision of a pluralist Egypt. By reevaluating Mizrahi’s contributions to Egyptian culture, Starr challenges readers to reconsider the debates over who is Egyptian and what constitutes national cinema.
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Title | Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Hales |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2020-11-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1789208734 |
The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere for Jewish “outsiders” to shape mainstream culture. The chapters collected in this volume deploy new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to understanding the significant involvement of German Jews in Weimar cinema. Reflecting upon different conceptions of Jewishness – as religion, ethnicity, social role, cultural code, or text – these studies offer a wide-ranging exploration of an often overlooked aspect of German film history.