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OverviewRevolutionary Visions examines recent cinematic depictions of Jewish involvement in 1960s and 1970s revolutionary movements in Latin America. In order to explore the topic, the book bridges critical theory on religion, politics, and hegemony from regional Latin American, national, and global perspectives. Placing these theories in dialogue with recent films, the author asks the following questions: How did revolutionary commitment change Jewish community and families in twentieth-century Latin America? How did Jews contribute to revolutionary causes, and what is the place of Jews in the legacies of revolutionary movements? How is film used to project self-representations of Jewish communities in the national project for a mainstream audience? Jewish involvement in revolutionary movements is rife with contradictions. On the one hand, it was a natural progression of patterns of political participation, based on the ideological affinities shared between socialist movements and Marxist revolutionary politics. On the other hand, involvement in revolutionary politics would also upset the status quo of Jewish communities because of the extreme nature of revolutionary practices (e.g., guerrilla warfare), revolutionary groups' alignment with Palestine, and the assimilation into non-Jewish culture that revolutionary involvement often entailed. These contradictions between Jewish self-identification and revolutionary activity continue to confound cultural understandings of the points of contact between identities and political affinities. In this way, Revolutionary Visions contributes to timely debates within cultural studies surrounding identities and politics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephanie M. PridgeonPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.450kg ISBN: 9781487508142ISBN 10: 148750814 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 17 November 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. A Place in the Economy of Being: Revolutionary Visions 2. Saintly Politics: Christianity, Revolution, and Jews 3. Here We Are to Build a Nation: Jewish Immigrants to Early-Twentieth-Century Latin America 4. Poner el cuerpo femenino judío: Jewish Women and Revolutionary Movements 5. Lost Embraces: Jewish Parent-Child Relationships and 1970s Politics 6. What Sort of Affinity? Conclusions and Areas for Future Study Notes BibliographyReviews"""Representing an important contribution to the field, Revolutionary Visions highlights for the first time the role of Jewish political participation in the sixties and seventies as it is depicted in films from the nineties onward. None of the recent publications on this topic deal with the revolutionary politics from this era, and with this book Stephanie Pridgeon builds a new praxis of Jewish Latin American film studies."" --Ariana Huberman, Associate Professor of Spanish, Haverford College ""Stephanie Pridgeon has aptly identified a gap in current bibliography. Supported by sound scholarship, Revolutionary Visions is a serious contribution to the field of Jewish Latin American studies."" --Carolina Rocha, Professor of Spanish, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville" Representing an important contribution to the field, Revolutionary Visions highlights for the first time the role of Jewish political participation in the sixties and seventies as it is depicted in films from the nineties onward. None of the recent publications on this topic deal with the revolutionary politics from this era, and with this book Stephanie Pridgeon builds a new praxis of Jewish Latin American film studies. - Ariana Huberman, Associate Professor of Spanish, Haverford College Stephanie Pridgeon has aptly identified a gap in current bibliography. Supported by sound scholarship, Revolutionary Visions is a serious contribution to the field of Jewish Latin American studies. - Carolina Rocha, Professor of Spanish, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Author InformationStephanie M. Pridgeon is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at Bates College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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