American Jewish Films
Title | American Jewish Films PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence J. Epstein |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2013-04-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1476601844 |
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.
Movie-Made Jews
Title | Movie-Made Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Helene Meyers |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total 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 50 Greatest Jewish Movies
Title | The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Bernheimer |
Publisher | Citadel Press |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Jews in motion pictures |
ISBN |
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.
The Jew in American Cinema
Title | The Jew in American Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Erens |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total 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.
American Jewish Films
Title | American Jewish Films PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence J. Epstein |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2013-05-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0786469625 |
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.
The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema
Title | The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Baron |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures |
ISBN | 9781611682083 |
An imprint of University of New England.
American Jewish Filmmakers
Title | American Jewish Filmmakers PDF eBook |
Author | David Desser |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780252071539 |
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.