The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Comtemporary Cinema - Couverture souple

Abrams, Professor Nathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848855753 ISBN 13 : 9781848855755

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2011

Synopsis

The New Jew in Film This is a compelling, surprising and provocative book, whose chapters explore masculinity, femininity, passivity, agency, religion, as well as a departure into new territory including food and bathrooms. Its concern is to reveal how the representation of the Jew is used to convey confidence or anxieties about Jewish identity and history. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 radical rupture with the past. With a new generation of Jewish filmmakers, writers and actors at work, contemporary cinemas in Hollywood and the rest of the world have been depicting a multiplicity of new Jews, including tough Jews, brutish Jews, gay and lesbian Jews, Jewish cowboys, skinheads and superheroes, Jews in space and so on. Grounded in the study of over 300 films from Hollywood and beyond, 'The New Jew in Film' explores these new and changing depictions of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism, providing a wider, more representative picture of the subject than has hitherto been attempted. This is a compelling, surprising and provocative book, whose chapters explore masculinity, femininity, passivity, agency, religion, as well as a departure into new territory including food and bathrooms. Its 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 how it engages with questions of racial, sexual and gender politics. In so doing, 'The New Jew in Film' also provides a welcome overview of important Jewish films produced globally over the last twenty years.

Revue de presse

...enlivened with an occasionally sly edge. --Jamie Russell, Total Film

Nathan Abrams must have got through an awful lot of popcorn...he draws on an intimate knowledge of more than 300 movies...Abrams divides his chapters into easily digestible sections with amusing, expressive titles...and provides insights that will only enhance enjoyment and appreciation of these movies. All 300 of them. --Alan Montague, The Jewish Chronicle

'Scholarly but highly entertaining...Abrams exudes a deep, enthusiastic love for the cinema, as well as a comprehensive understanding of the changing manner in which Jews have been portrayed in films over the years...Abrams provides well-documented anecdotes in can t-put-down chapters devoted to eyebrow-raising subjects...Abrams devotion to film as a way to explain societal changes permeates the entertaining and informative book, which seems like the result of a lifetime of research and movie going. Scholarly while at the same time enabling breezy page flipping if desires, The New Jew in Film offers a new cornerstone to the study of how the people of the book are portrayed in the movies.' --David Brinn, Jerusalem Post

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1848855753
• ISBN 13: 9781848855755
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272