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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782160303321

Autore

Lebow Alisa

Titolo

First person Jewish [[electronic resource] /] / Alisa S. Lebow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8166-5643-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Visible evidence ; ; v. 22

Disciplina

791.43/6529924

Soggetti

Jews in motion pictures

Jewish motion picture producers and directors

Documentary films - History and criticism

Autobiography

Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Memory Once Removed: indirect memory and transitive autobiography in Chantal Akerman's D'Est -- 2. Reframing the Jewish family -- 3. A treyf autocritique of autobiography  -- 4. Ambivalence and ambiguity in queer Jewish subjectivity -- Conclusion: a limit case for Jewish autoethnography.

Sommario/riassunto

Alisa S. Lebow examines films from Jewish artists to reveal how the postmodern impulse to turn the lens inward intersects provocatively (and at times unwittingly) with historical tropes and stereotypes of the Jew. Using a multidisciplinary approach Lebow shows how this form of self-expression is challenging both autobiography and documentary and, in the process, changing the art of cinema and recording the cultural shifts of our time.