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Book SynopsisWith critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel, this is the first volume devoted to Jewish filmmaking and films with Jewish themes and characters in Latin America.
Trade Review[A] superb collection of essays…All too often we find a statement such as 'this is a 'must book' for all those interested in…' In considering
Evolving Images it is warranted, for it points to an equally evolving academic enterprise within Latin American-Jewish studies. * Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas *
A welcome addition to the English-language literature on Jewish themes in Latin American cinema...highly readable...Glickman and Huberman should be congratulated for putting together a fine collection of essays on the inadequately studied topic of Jewish presence in Latin American cinema. * Jewish Film and New Media *
The editors are to be commended for creating a structure that gives insight into specific aspects of Jewish lives and how these are visually depicted in Latin American countries...
Evolving Images is essential reading for anyone seeking to gain insight into Jewish filmmaking in Latin American countries. Those studying or wishing to learn more about how Jewish motives and themes are treated in Latin American film and cinema will find this edited anthology highly informative and engaging. Everyone interested in the depiction of religion, heritage and/or cultural identities on film might also be interested in the collection. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *
Table of Contents
- Introduction. Evolving Images: Jewish Latin American Cinema (Nora Glickman and Ariana Huberman)
- Part I. Alternative Identities
- 1. Out of the Shadows: María Victoria Menis’s Camera Obscura (Graciela Michelotti)
- 2. Intercultural Dilemmas: Performing Jewish Identities in Contemporary Mexican Cinema (Elissa J. Rashkin)
- 3. Incidental Jewishness in the Films of Fabián Bielinsky (Amy Kaminsky)
- Part II. Memory and Violence
- 4. My German Friend and the Jewish Argentine/German “Mnemo-Historic“ Context (Daniela Goldfine)
- 5. Dispersed Friendships: Jeanine Meerapfel’s La amiga (Patricia Nuriel)
- 6. Revisiting the AMIA Bombing in Marcos Carnevale’s Anita (Mirna Vohnsen)
- Part III. New Themes
- 7. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation: A Jewish Journey in the Land of Soccer (Alejandro Meter)
- 8. Coming of Age in Two Films from Argentina and Uruguay (Carolina Rocha)
- 9. Waiting for the Messiah: The Super 8mm Films of Alberto Salomón (Ernesto Livon-Grosman)
- Part IV. Diasporas and Displacements
- 10. Geographic Isolation and Jewish Religious Revival in Front (Ariana Huberman)
- 11. Negotiating Jewish and Palestinian Identities in Latin American Cinema (Tzvi Tal)
- 12. From a Dream to Reality: Representations of Israel in Contemporary Jewish Latin American Film (Amalia Ran)
- 13. On Becoming a Movie (Ilan Stavans)
- Part V. Comparative Perspectives: North and South American Cinema
- 14. Jewish Urban Space in the Films of Daniel Burman and Woody Allen (Jerry Carlson)
- 15. Interfaith Relations between Jews and Gentiles in Argentine and US Cinema (Nora Glickman)
- Afterword. Film Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies (Naomi Lindstrom)
- Jewish Latin American Filmography
- Contributors
- Index
