First person Jewish
By: Alisa S. Lebow.
Series: Visible evidence -- v. 22
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780816643547; 9780816643554
Subjects: 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
Description: Examining more than a dozen films from Jewish artists, this book reveals how the postmodern impulse to turn the lens inward intersects provocatively with historical tropes and stereotypes of the Jew. It focuses on Jewish filmmakers working on the margins and examines the work of Jonathan Caouette, Chantal Akerman and many more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Memory Once Removed: indirect memory and transitive autobiography in Chantal Akerman's D'Est; title: 2. Reframing the Jewish family; title: 3. A treyf autocritique of autobiography; title: 4. Ambivalence and ambiguity in queer Jewish subjectivity; title: Conclusion: a limit case for Jewish autoethnography.