Hammerman, Shaina. <br/><br/>
Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews :  The Story of an Image. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (192 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780253031709 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jews in motion pictures.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.J46 .H366 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.436529924