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1 online resource (ix, 337 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction : seeing isn't believing / Vincent Brook -- Re-imagining the Jew's body : from self-loathing to "Grepts" / Andrea Most -- Recalling "home" from beneath the shadow of the Holocaust : American Jewish women writers of the new wave / Janet Handler Burstein -- "Your world is very different from mine" : troubling Jewish identity in postmodern American theater / Jan Lewis -- Tony Kushner's metaphorical Jew / James Fisher -- Exploring the postmodern landscape of Jewish music / Judah M. Cohen -- Continuity, creativity, and conflict : the ongoing search for "Jewish" music / Marsha Bryan Edelman -- The Jewish man and his dancing shtick : stock characterization and Jewish masculinity in postmodern dance / Rebecca Rossen -- Between exile and irony : modernism, postmodernism, and Jewish modes of thought / Ruth Weisberg -- Observant Jews and the photographic arena of looks / MacDonald Moore, Deborah Dash Moore -- Joke-work : the construction of Jewish postmodern identity in contemporary theory and American film / Ruth D. Johnston -- They all are Jews / Daniel Itzkovitz -- Genealogies of Jewish stand-up : looking back, moving beyond / Donald Weber -- Something old is new again? : postmodern Jewishness in Curb your enthusiasm, Arrested development, and The O.C. / Michele Byers, Rosalin Krieger -- "Y'all killed him, we didn't!" : Jewish self-hatred and The Larry Sanders show / Vincent Brook |
| Summary |
The 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Jews in popular culture -- United States
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Popular culture -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Postmodernism -- United States
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Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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ART -- Reference.
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ART -- Performance.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Jews in popular culture
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Popular culture -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Postmodernism
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Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Ethnische Identität
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Juden
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Kultur
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Geschichte.
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Kultur.
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Kulturelle Identität.
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Jews in popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Postmodernism -- United States.
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Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Populärkultur -- Förenta staterna.
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Judar -- etnicitet -- Förenta staterna.
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Postmodernism -- Förenta staterna.
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United States
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USA
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Juden.
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USA.
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Juden.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brook, Vincent, 1946-
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| LC no. |
2005028060 |
| ISBN |
9780813539966 |
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081353996X |
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0813538440 |
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9780813538440 |
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9786611316549 |
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661131654X |
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