'You Should See Yourself' : Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture.
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'You Should See Yourself' : Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture.
Yazar:
Brook, Vincent.
ISBN:
9780813539966
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (350 pages)
İçerik:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgment s -- Introduction. Seeing Isn't Believing -- Part I. Literature -- Chapter 1. Re-imagining the Jew's Body: From SELF-LOATHING to "Grepts" -- Chapter 2. Recalling "Home" from Beneath the Shadow of the Holocaust: American Jewish Women Writers of the New Wave -- Part II. Theater -- Chapter 3. "Your World Is Very Different from Mine": Troubling Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Theater -- Chapter 4. Tony Kushner's Metaphorical Jew -- Part III. Music -- Chapter 5. Exploring the Postmodern Landscape of Jewish Music -- Chapter 6. Continuity, Creativity, and Conflict: The Ongoing Search for "Jewish" Music -- Part IV. Dance -- Chapter 7. The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity in Postmodern Dance -- Part V. Painting and Photography -- Chapter 8. Between Exile and Irony: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Jewish Modes of Thought -- Chapter 9. Observant Jews and the Photographic Arena of Looks -- Part VI. Film -- Chapter 10. Joke-Work: The Construction of Jewish Postmodern Identity in Contemporary Theory and American Film -- Chapter 11. They All Are Jews -- Part VII. Stand-up Comedy -- Chapter 12. Genealogies of Jewish Stand-up: Looking Back, Moving Beyond -- Part VIII. Television -- Chapter 13. Something Old Is New Again!: Postmodern Jewishness in "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Arrested Development", and "The O.C." -- Chapter 14. "Y'all Killed Him, We Didn't!": Jewish Self-Hatred and "The Larry Sanders Show" -- Contributors -- Index.
Özet:
Bringing together fourteen new essays by leading scholars, You Should See Yourself examines the fluctuating representations of Jewishness in a variety of areas of popular culture and high art, including literature, the media, film, theater, music, dance, painting, photography, and comedy. Contributors explore the evolution that has taken place within these cultural forms and how we can best explain these changes. Are variations in our understanding of Jewishness the result of general phenomena such as multiculturalism, politics, and postmodernism, or are they the product of more specifically Jewish concerns such as the intermarriage/continuity crisis, religious renewal, and relations between the United States and Israel? Accessible to students and general readers alike, this volume takes an important step toward advancing the discussion of Jewish cultural influences in this country.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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