Nathan Abrams

The New Jew in Film

Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Chapters explore masculinity, femininity, passivity, agency, and religion as well as a departure into new territory—including bathrooms and food.  Abrams reveals 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780813553412
• ISBN-10: 0813553415
• Artikelnr.: 34948009

Autorenporträt

Abrams, Nathan

Inhaltsangabe

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Jew
Chapter 2. The Jewess
Chapter 3. Sex
Chapter 4. Passivity
Chapter 5. Agency
Chapter 6. Religion
Chapter 7. Food
Chapter 8. Bathrooms
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index