American Jewish Films

Author : Helene Meyers
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978821903

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Movie-Made Jews by Helene Meyers Pdf

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.

Author : Patricia Erens
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1988-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253204933

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The Jew in American Cinema by Patricia Erens Pdf

Examples range from film's early days to the present, from Europe, Israel, and the United States.

Author : David L. Reznik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317264385

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New Jews by David L. Reznik Pdf

"New Jews'?" is the first comprehensive study of American Jewish identity in Hollywood movies of the new millennium. Despite the argument that we live in a "post-racial" society with supposedly "new" Jewish characters emerging on the big screen, this book details how traditional racial stereotypes of American Jews persist in popular films from the first decade of this century. In clear and readable prose, the book offers an innovative and penetrating look at dozens of American Jewish "meddling matriarchs," "neurotic nebbishes," "pampered princesses," and "scheming scumbags" from 21st century film, whether Hollywood blockbusters like Meet the Fockers and Sex and the City or indie favorites like Garden State and Kissing Jessica Stein. Throughout the book, famous American Jewish characters played by the likes of Jim Carrey, Tom Cruise, Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Scarlett Johansson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller are discussed, with the ultimate conclusion that movies today are marked less by the emergence of "new Jews" than by the continued - but dynamic and transformed -- presence of the same old stereotypes.

Author : Daniel Bernardi
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814338070

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Hollywood's Chosen People by Daniel Bernardi Pdf

As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also helped to produce some of the most troubling stereotypes of people of color in Hollywood film history. In Hollywood's Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema, leading scholars consider the complex relationship between Jews and the film industry, as Jews have helped to construct Hollywood's vision of the American dream and American collective identity and have in turn been shaped by those representations. Editors Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson introduce the volume with an overview of the history of Jews in American popular culture and the American film industry. Multidisciplinary contributors go on to discuss topics such as early Jewish films and directors, institutionalized anti-Semitism, Jewish identity and gossip culture, and issues of Jewish performance on film. Contributors draw on a diverse sampling of films, from representations of the Holocaust on film to screen comedy; filmmakers and writers, including David Mamet, George Cukor, Sidney Lumet, Edward Sloman, and Steven Spielberg; and stars, like Barbra Streisand, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller. The Jewish experience in American cinema reveals much about the degree to which Jews have been integrated into and contribute to the making of American popular film culture. Scholars of Jewish studies, film studies, American history, and American culture as well as anyone interested in film history will find this volume fascinating reading.

Author : Lawrence J. Epstein
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476601847

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American Jewish Films by Lawrence J. Epstein Pdf

This is a thematic survey of American films with significant Jewish content that made an important statement about America. Both familiar and lesser known films are included. An introduction discusses why American Jews were attracted to films as audiences, performers and business people, and evaluates how films help audiences think about their lives. The book then focuses on themes and representative and important films, placing them in their cultural contexts. One of the aspects of American Jewish life brought out by the films in general is the tensions between an American and a Jewish identity and between a Jewish identity and a broader human identity. Other themes are assimilation and acculturation, interfaith relations, Israel, marriage and family relations, the role of women, Jews and American politics, and anti-Semitism including the Holocaust.

Author : Eric A. Goldman
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292744318

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The American Jewish Story through Cinema by Eric A. Goldman Pdf

“A superb, thought-provoking analysis tracing the metamorphosis of the image of the Jew as portrayed through 80 years of American cinema.” —Library Journal Like the haggadah, the traditional story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt read at the Passover seder, cinema offers a valuable text from which to gain an understanding of the social, political, and cultural realities of Jews in America. In an industry strongly influenced by Jewish filmmakers, the complex, evolving nature of the American Jewish condition has had considerable impact on American cinema and, in particular, on how Jews are reflected on the screen. This groundbreaking study analyzes select mainstream films from the beginning of the sound era to today to provide an understanding of the American Jewish experience over the last century, from the time when Hollywood’s movie moguls, most of whom were Jewish, shied away from asserting a Jewish image on the screen, to a period when Jewish moviemakers became more comfortable with the concept of a Jewish hero and with an overpowered, yet heroic, Israel, and the way that the Holocaust assumed center stage as the single event with the greatest effect on American Jewish identity. Recently, as American Jewish screenwriters, directors, and producers have become increasingly comfortable with their heritage, we are seeing an unprecedented number of movies that spotlight Jewish protagonists, experiences, and challenges. This is “a wonderful book for any lover of American films” (Hadassah Magazine).

Author : David Desser,Lester D. Friedman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0252071530

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American Jewish Filmmakers by David Desser,Lester D. Friedman Pdf

In this updated second edition, David Desser and Lester D. Friedman demonstrate how the Jewish experience gives rise to an intimately linked series of issues in the films of these and other significant Jewish directors.

Author : Lawrence J. Epstein
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786469628

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American Jewish Films by Lawrence J. Epstein Pdf

This is a thematic survey of American films with significant Jewish content that made an important statement about America. Both familiar and lesser known films are included. An introduction discusses why American Jews were attracted to films as audiences, performers and business people, and evaluates how films help audiences think about their lives. The book then focuses on themes and representative and important films, placing them in their cultural contexts. One of the aspects of American Jewish life brought out by the films in general is the tensions between an American and a Jewish identity and between a Jewish identity and a broader human identity. Other themes are assimilation and acculturation, interfaith relations, Israel, marriage and family relations, the role of women, Jews and American politics, and anti-Semitism including the Holocaust.

Author : Nora Glickman,Ariana Huberman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781477314715

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Evolving Images by Nora Glickman,Ariana Huberman Pdf

Jews have always played an important role in the generation of culture in Latin America, despite their relatively small numbers in the overall population. In the early days of cinema, they served as directors, producers, screenwriters, composers, and broadcasters. As Latin American societies became more religiously open in the later twentieth century, Jewish characters and themes began appearing in Latin American films and eventually achieved full inclusion. Landmark films by Jewish directors in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil, which are home to the largest and most influential Jewish communities in Latin America, have enjoyed critical and popular acclaim. Evolving Images is the first volume devoted to Jewish Latin American cinema, with fifteen critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel. The contributors address transnational and transcultural issues of Jewish life in Latin America, such as assimilation, integration, identity, and other aspects of life in the Diaspora. Their discussions of films with Jewish themes and characters show the rich diversity of Jewish cultures in Latin America, as well as how Jews, both real and fictional, interact among themselves and with other groups, raising the question of how much their ethnicity may be adulterated when adopting a combined identity as Jewish and Latin American. The book closes with a groundbreaking section on the affinities between Jewish themes in Hollywood and Latin American films, as well as a comprehensive filmography.

Author : Kathryn Bernheimer
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Jews in motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023046415

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The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies by Kathryn Bernheimer Pdf

The first book to review and rank movies depicting the Jewish experience, "The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies" provides an insightful analysis of the ways in which Hollywood and the film community have handled such issues as anti-Semitism, assimilation, relations with gentiles, the Holocaust and its aftereffects, Zionism, and the Jewish commitment to social justice. Photos.

Author : Nathan Abrams
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813553436

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The New Jew in Film by Nathan Abrams Pdf

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.

Author : Lawrence Baron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
ISBN : 1611682088

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The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema by Lawrence Baron Pdf

An imprint of University of New England.

Author : Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience
Publisher : New York : Holmes & Meier
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0841909342

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The American Jewish Experience by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience Pdf

Author : Lester D. Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015046378702

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The Jewish Image in American Film by Lester D. Friedman Pdf

Author : Lester D. Friedman
Publisher : Frederick Ungar
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015046335017

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Hollywood's Image of the Jew by Lester D. Friedman Pdf