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New Jews - Race and American Jewish Identity in 21st-century Film (Hardcover)
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New Jews - Race and American Jewish Identity in 21st-century Film (Hardcover)
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"New Jews'?" is the first comprehensive study of American Jewish
identity in Hollywood movies of the new millennium. Despite the
argument that we live in a "post-racial" society with supposedly
"new" Jewish characters emerging on the big screen, this book
details how traditional racial stereotypes of American Jews persist
in popular films from the first decade of this century. In clear
and readable prose, the book offers an innovative and penetrating
look at dozens of American Jewish "meddling matriarchs," "neurotic
nebbishes," "pampered princesses," and "scheming scumbags" from
21st century film, whether Hollywood blockbusters like Meet the
Fockers and Sex and the City or indie favorites like Garden State
and Kissing Jessica Stein. Throughout the book, famous American
Jewish characters played by the likes of Jim Carrey, Tom Cruise,
Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Scarlett Johansson, Sarah Jessica
Parker, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller are discussed, with the
ultimate conclusion that movies today are marked less by the
emergence of "new Jews" than by the continued - but dynamic and
transformed -- presence of the same old stereotypes.
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