First Person Jewish
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 cha...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2008
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Visible Evidence
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reading First Person Documentary
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Selected Filmography of Jewish Diasporic First Person Documentaries
- Index
- A
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- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
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