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Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews : The Story of an Image.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (192 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253031709
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Silver Screen, Hasidic JewsDDC classification:
  • 791.436529924
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.J46 .H366 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- SILVER SCREEN, HASIDIC JEWS -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: When Jews Are Like Jews -- 1. The Yarmulke beneath the Cowboy Hat: Signifying Jewishness in the Hasidic Western -- 2. The Jewish Type and "le juif typique": Typologies of Jewishness in Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob -- 3. Hard-Core Jews: Woody Allen's Religious Women and Men -- 4. Cinéma judéité: Projecting Jewish-Muslim Romance -- 5. What Lies beneath the Wig: Hester Street and Adaptation -- Epilogue: Hijab, Habit, and Hasid -- Filmography and Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Although these depictions could easily be dismissed as slapstick comedies and sexy dramas about forbidden relationships, Hammerman uses this ethnic imagery to ask meaningful questions about how Jewish identity, multiculturalism, belonging, and relevance are constructed on the stage and silver screen.
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Cover -- SILVER SCREEN, HASIDIC JEWS -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: When Jews Are Like Jews -- 1. The Yarmulke beneath the Cowboy Hat: Signifying Jewishness in the Hasidic Western -- 2. The Jewish Type and "le juif typique": Typologies of Jewishness in Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob -- 3. Hard-Core Jews: Woody Allen's Religious Women and Men -- 4. Cinéma judéité: Projecting Jewish-Muslim Romance -- 5. What Lies beneath the Wig: Hester Street and Adaptation -- Epilogue: Hijab, Habit, and Hasid -- Filmography and Bibliography -- Index.

Although these depictions could easily be dismissed as slapstick comedies and sexy dramas about forbidden relationships, Hammerman uses this ethnic imagery to ask meaningful questions about how Jewish identity, multiculturalism, belonging, and relevance are constructed on the stage and silver screen.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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