Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment explores the racialization and sexualization of Jews through a selection of film and television examples. In so doing, it is a contribution not only to Jewish studies, as well as film and television studies, but also a personal and political intervention to address the contemporary situation in the United States."—Nathan Abrams, Bangor University
"I cannot imagine a more timely book than Carol Siegel's Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment. More than ever, cultural-studies scholarship urgently needs to track, evaluate, and analyze the ways popular culture represents Jews because such representations constitute commonsense knowledge and assumptions about this minority. Prof. Siegel's book is an important contribution to this effort."—Linda Mizejewski, Ohio State University
"Provocative, wide-ranging, and disarmingly personal, Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment provides timely and urgent readings of Jewish characters on American screens."—Henry Bial, University of Kansas
"Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment is a book that fuses film with theories of spectatorship to decipher the impact of representations of Jewishness in popular entertainment with a broad lens."—Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University Vancouver
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sexual Perversity and the Jewish Therapist Figure
2. Imaginary Histories of Americanized Jews in Love
3. Sex and Revenge, Rage and Bliss
4. Jews, Sex Crimes, and Holocaust Erasure on Film
5. Two Funerals and a Wedding
6. Monstrous Jewish Sexualities and Minoritarian Cinema
7. Our Erasure Is Being Televised
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
