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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480830603321

Autore

Hammerman Shaina

Titolo

Silver screen, Hasidic Jews : the story of an image / / Shaina Hammerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

0-253-03170-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Disciplina

791.43/652924

Soggetti

Jews in motion pictures

Hasidism

Jews in popular culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: when Jews are like Jews -- The yarmulke beneath the cowboy hat: signifying Jewishness in the Hasidic Western -- The Jewish type and "Le Juif Typique": typologies of Jewishness in Les Aventures De Rabbi Jacob -- Hard-core Jews: Woody Allen's religious women and men -- Cinema judeite: projecting Jewish-Muslim romance -- What lies beneath the wig: Hester Street and adaptation -- Epilogue: hijab, habit, and hasid -- Filmography and bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Motivated by Woody Allen's brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film, television, theater, and photography. 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"--