Nostalgia in Jewish-American theatre and film, 1979-2004
By: Ben Furnish.
Series: Twentieth-Century American Jewish writers ;; vol. 11
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Jewish theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Jews in motion pictures
Description: "Numerous plays and films of this time use nostalgia to engage Jewish, including Yiddish, cultural themes and images. Nostalgia offers audiences a window through which to examine past and current social changes. These include American Jews departure from Europe to America, the city for the suburbs, Yiddish for English, as well as the civil rights, women's, peace, and gay and lesbian movements, and other transformations. These performances illustrate how theatre and film transmit culture from generation to generation and between one ethnic community and the wider American scene."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Nostalgia, theatre and film, and Jewish culture in America; title: The American Yiddish stage: key approaches to time, memory, and nostalgia; title: Nostalgia of place: exile, and diaspora; title: The nostalgia of time, part I: History, social change, and the perpetual present; title: The nostalgia of time, part II: Coming of age and intimations of mortality; title: Nostalgia of family.