LEADER 05018nam 22007094a 450 001 9910451382603321 005 20210528014633.0 010 $a1-281-31654-7 010 $a9786611316549 010 $a0-8135-3996-X 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813539966 035 $a(CKB)1000000000469620 035 $a(EBL)340814 035 $a(OCoLC)476156760 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000275927 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218691 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000275927 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10223310 035 $a(PQKB)10988627 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC340814 035 $a(OCoLC)78596562 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23290 035 $a(DE-B1597)529341 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813539966 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL340814 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10155150 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL131654 035 $a(OCoLC)1156905866 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000469620 100 $a20050930d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aYou should see yourself$b[electronic resource] $eJewish identity in postmodern American culture /$fedited by Vincent Brook 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (350 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-3844-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Seeing Isn?t Believing --$tIntroduction --$tRe-imagining the Jew?s Body: From Self-Loathing to ?Grepts? --$tRecalling ?Home? from Beneath the Shadow of the Holocaust: American Jewish Women Writers of the New Wave --$tIntroduction --$t?Your World Is Very Different from Mine?: Troubling Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Theater --$tTony Kushner?s Metaphorical Jew --$tIntroduction --$tExploring the Postmodern Landscape of Jewish Music --$tContinuity, Creativity, and Conflict: The Ongoing Search for ?Jewish? Music --$tIntroduction --$tThe Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity in Postmodern Dance --$tIntroduction --$tBetween Exile and Irony: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Jewish Modes of Thought --$tObservant Jews and the Photographic Arena of Looks --$tIntroduction --$tJoke-Work: The Construction of Jewish Postmodern Identity in Contemporary Theory and American Film --$tThey All Are Jews --$tIntroduction --$tGenealogies of Jewish Stand-up: Looking Back, Moving Beyond --$tIntroduction --$tSomething Old Is New Again? Postmodern Jewishness in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, and The O.C. --$t?Y?all Killed Him, We Didn?t!? Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show --$tContributors --$tIndex 330 $aThe past few decades have seen a remarkable surge in Jewish influences on American culture. Entertainers and artists such as Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Allegra Goodman, and Tony Kushner have heralded new waves of television, film, literature, and theater; a major klezmer revival is under way; bagels are now as commonplace as pizza; and kabbalah has become as cool as crystals. Does this broad range of cultural expression accurately reflect what it means to be Jewish in America today? Bringing together fourteen new essays by leading scholars, You Should See Yourself examines the fluctuating representations of Jewishness in a variety of areas of popular culture and high art, including literature, the media, film, theater, music, dance, painting, photography, and comedy. Contributors explore the evolution that has taken place within these cultural forms and how we can best explain these changes. Are variations in our understanding of Jewishness the result of general phenomena such as multiculturalism, politics, and postmodernism, or are they the product of more specifically Jewish concerns such as the intermarriage/continuity crisis, religious renewal, and relations between the United States and Israel? Accessible to students and general readers alike, this volume takes an important step toward advancing the discussion of Jewish cultural influences in this country. 606 $aJews in popular culture$zUnited States 606 $aPopular culture$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 606 $aPostmodernism$zUnited States 606 $aPostmodernism$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJews in popular culture 615 0$aPopular culture$xReligious aspects$xJudaism. 615 0$aPostmodernism 615 0$aPostmodernism$xReligious aspects$xJudaism. 676 $a700/.452992400904 700 $aBrook$b Vincent, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01027492 701 $aBrook$b Vincent$f1946-$0877267 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451382603321 996 $aYou should see yourself$92442973 997 $aUNINA