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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Carol SiegelPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Weight: 0.553kg ISBN: 9780253060228ISBN 10: 0253060222 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 03 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. 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 IndexReviewsJews 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 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 ""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 Author InformationCarol Siegel is Professor of English, Film, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington State University Vancouver. She is the author of Sex Radical Cinema and New Millennial Sexstyles, among other monographs and collections. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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